Hiking Diamond Head | National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific | November 2018 Ever since I hiked Diamond Head with my family last spring, I have been teasing Curtis about how he hadn’t yet hiked it. Every time we would do a hike in the Ko’olaus with views of Honolulu and the South shore of…
Visiting Chiricahua National Monument | Hiking the Echo Canyon, Hailstone, Mushroom Rock, Inspiration Point, Big Balanced Rock, Heart of Rocks, and Lower Rhyolite Canyon Trails | October 2015 Recently, we visited Chiricahua National Monument for the 3rd time. As always, we were completely blown away from the views surrounding us, and we loved every minute…
Day 5: Sunday, June 7, 2015 Day 5 of vacation started out as another rainy day. We gave ourselves a chance to sleep in, then went to Brew coffee shop for breakfast and Silly Goose General Store just to look around. We took a short walk down to Island Orchard Cidery North of Ellison Bay….
Fall to the Rising Sun Trip • The Other Acadia (Schoodic Point and Petit Manan NWR) • September 22 & 23, 2016 So Acadia National Park wasn’t our favorite National Park (however much better than our least favorite), but that had more to do with the number of people than anything else. The area itself is beautiful…
Magnolia Cemetery | Our First Military Ball | April 16, 2016 The weekend of April 16-17 was a busy one for us. It started with dinner out on Friday night with some of Curtis’ classmates celebrating being over another test and another week (â…“ of the way through!) and our first Military Ball on Saturday…
Hiking & Camping in the Silver Island Mountains | November 2025 At this point, we had driven 1300+ miles in 5 days. Hardly a land speed record (get it – we were boondocking right next to the Bonneville Salt Flats where land speed records are set), but we decided we needed a couple of zero…