Grand Rapids to Marquette, MI | Hiking in Hartwick Pines State Park | April 2024 After our long time crossing from Ontario into Michigan on the Bluewater Bridge, we stopped for lunch with my Grandmother and then pressed on to my parent’s house on the other side of the state. We had intended to visit…
Colorado Adventure, Day 6 // Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (This was written by both myself and Curtis…try and figure out who wrote what!) This morning started off early with a thunderstorm coming through at around 5am. I gave up on sleeping at that point! After the storm had passed, we had to wait a while longer…
September 1 & 2, 2015 All summer long, right up until the day before we left, people kept coming up to me and saying “Wow! You finally get to see him soon! This summer has gone fast, hasn’t it?!” And all I could say was…no! It felt like years ago since our week in Wisconsin…
Our first anniversary! July 27, 2014 Letterboxing, Joshua Tree national park, and home. Our alarm went off way too early this morning. The first thing I said: “Boxing!” …then, “oh, happy anniversary.” 
But seriously, where we were headed this morning was a letterboxer’s dream! A quiet, isolated park that the park rangers really didn’t…
I’ve been hesitant to share updates on what’s coming next in our military journey because of how uncertain these things are. But now that we actually have orders in hand, I guess it’s as good a time as any to spill the beans! Since Summer 2015, Curtis has been going through the Navy’s training pipeline….
It feels so strange to title this post “January adventures.” After surviving 20 Iowan winters, this feels nothing like “January” to me. Maybe it’s the longest and nicest October I’ve ever lived through. I’m not complaining about this of course ~ now that I’ve been here though I don’t think I can ever go back….
Grand Rapids to Marquette, MI | Hiking in Hartwick Pines State Park | April 2024 After our long time crossing from Ontario into Michigan on the Bluewater Bridge, we stopped for lunch with my Grandmother and then pressed on to my parent’s house on the other side of the state. We had intended to visit…
Colorado Adventure, Day 6 // Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (This was written by both myself and Curtis…try and figure out who wrote what!) This morning started off early with a thunderstorm coming through at around 5am. I gave up on sleeping at that point! After the storm had passed, we had to wait a while longer…
September 1 & 2, 2015 All summer long, right up until the day before we left, people kept coming up to me and saying “Wow! You finally get to see him soon! This summer has gone fast, hasn’t it?!” And all I could say was…no! It felt like years ago since our week in Wisconsin…
Our first anniversary! July 27, 2014 Letterboxing, Joshua Tree national park, and home. Our alarm went off way too early this morning. The first thing I said: “Boxing!” …then, “oh, happy anniversary.” But seriously, where we were headed this morning was a letterboxer’s dream! A quiet, isolated park that the park rangers really didn’t…
I’ve been hesitant to share updates on what’s coming next in our military journey because of how uncertain these things are. But now that we actually have orders in hand, I guess it’s as good a time as any to spill the beans! Since Summer 2015, Curtis has been going through the Navy’s training pipeline….
It feels so strange to title this post “January adventures.” After surviving 20 Iowan winters, this feels nothing like “January” to me. Maybe it’s the longest and nicest October I’ve ever lived through. I’m not complaining about this of course ~ now that I’ve been here though I don’t think I can ever go back….
Grand Rapids to Marquette, MI | Hiking in Hartwick Pines State Park | April 2024 After our long time crossing from Ontario into Michigan on the Bluewater Bridge, we stopped for lunch with my Grandmother and then pressed on to my parent’s house on the other side of the state. We had intended to visit…
Colorado Adventure, Day 6 // Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (This was written by both myself and Curtis…try and figure out who wrote what!) This morning started off early with a thunderstorm coming through at around 5am. I gave up on sleeping at that point! After the storm had passed, we had to wait a while longer…