Weekend Trip to Kearney | Fort Kearny State Recreation Area & Historic Site | Sandhill Crane Migration | March 2021 Almost exactly a year ago, we found out that we would be moving to Nebraska. After the initial freak out and call my family, I googled “things to do in Nebraska,” and one of the…
Hiking around Summit Lake SRA | Tekamah and Fremont NE | March 2021 As expected, our ‘false spring’ lasted a couple weeks before cold and dreary weather moved back in. On this weekend, it was predicted to start raining in the afternoon, so we decided to get out early and go for a hike. Curtis…
Northeastern Kansas Road Trip | Hiking in Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve | Cottonwood Falls, Marion, Junction City, Clay Center, Washington, and Marysville, KS | March 2021 On day 2 of our mini Kansas road trip, we awoke to the brisk morning air and a colorful sunrise over the lake. Curtis made dinosaur oatmeal on our…
Northeastern Kansas Road Trip | Holton, Topeka, Lyndon, & Emporia, KS | Camping at Chase Lake | March 2021 The beginning of March brought warmer temperatures day after day, each day nicer than the next. Being born and raised midwesterners, we know that this is likely a ‘false spring’ and that we’ll still have some…
Hiking in Lake of Three Fires State Park | Corning, Bedford, and Clarinda, Iowa | February 2021 After a brutally cold month, the last weekend of February was absolutely beautiful. We celebrated by checking out a new-to-us state park. It had been over a month since we’d gone somewhere new or worked on our county…