Hiking the Hemlock Cliffs Trail in Hoosier National Forest | Camping in Buzzard Roost Recreation Area | May 2024 Once the storms had passed, we were ready to resume our road trip to North Carolina. We had spent a little more time planning our next steps while in the hotel, and had found a few…
Driving the Oregon Coast | Cape Perpetua to Reedsport | Thor’s Well | Heceta Head Lighthouse | Holman Vista & Sutton Creek Trail | Oregon Dunes | November 2025 We started our morning by driving back down the forest road and returning to US-101. For our last stop in the Cape Perpetua area, we stopped…
Road Trip from Mark Twain National Forest, MO to Iowa | Maramec Spring Park | Clark’s Hill/Norton State Historic Site | Camping in Prairie Hills and Union Ridge Conservation Areas | November 2024 Today was the start of Thanksgiving week, and it was time for us to begin our drive back to Iowa. We planned…
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…
Moving to Hawaii • Olympic National Park & Forest • September 13 & 14, 2017 Once we arrived in Seattle, it was time to get down to business and take care of one of the big moving items: shipping our car. The military will ship one car for free, and we had been advised to take advantage…
Moving to Hawaii • Hiking Saddle Mountain • The Oregon Coast • September 16, 2017 Our main reason for having our cross-country journey end in Oregon was because my brother Grant had recently moved to Portland, and we were excited to be able to visit him in his new home state! After admiring the mountains in Oregon’s coastal range…