Seaside Point & Harkness Memorial State Park • June 26, 2017 Curtis: It was our first full day in Connecticut. I had work in the morning, but like all first days, it was short and more administrative work than anything else. By the time I got home it was only mid afternoon. Naturally, we decided that…
Driving from Wilmington, NC to Shenandoah National Park | Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway from Meadows of Dan to Shenandoah National Park | August 2024 The start of our drive from North Carolina to New York was very familiar to other times we’ve left North Carolina and headed North. We planned to take the most…
Section Hiking the Wabash Trace Trail | Mineola to Dumfries | March 2021 The day after we hiked our first stretch of the West Papio trail, we decided to try out another long distance bike trail in Iowa. The Wabash Trace Trail is a rail trail following the old Wabash Rail Line which used to…
Driving from Ottawa, IL to Southport, NC | Spending 3 Weeks in Southport, NC | February-March 2026 As our time in Ottawa was wrapping up, Curtis was extended a few days, as he usually is at this project. We were a little bummed because we were hoping for more time to get to his next…
Fall to the Rising Sun Trip • Caledonia Gorge and Mount Carleton Provincial Park • October 7-8, 2016 To be completely honest, we had made no plans after our visit to Prince Edward Island. I mean, most of our trip was pretty flexible, but we at least knew where we wanted to go next and what we wanted…
Once in Portland, I spent Monday afternoon cleaning out our rental car and repacking all my luggage. On Tuesday, 9/26, I took Charlotte to get a bath at Petsmart so she’d be all clean and ready for our flight (I had read that if quarantine found any sort of ticks or parasites on an animal…