Winter Migration Road Trip, Day 5 | Chickasaw NRA to Wichita Mountains | Hiking & Camping in Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge | November 2023 After leaving Chickasaw National Recreation Area, we drove West across Oklahoma on OK-7, claiming new counties and avoiding toll roads the whole way. Our destination for today for both activities…
Winter Migration Road Trip, Day 4 | Kansas to Oklahoma | Little House on the Prairie Museum | Pawhuska, OK | Camping & Hiking in Chickasaw National Recreation Area | November 2023 We woke up to a chilly morning in Southeast Kansas, but still braved the cold to go outside and enjoy our little lakefront…
Winter Migration Road Trip, Days 1 & 2 | Iowa to Missouri | Hiking in Ha Ha Tonka State Park | November 2023 Given a couple months of time to be wherever we wanted, and seeing snow appear in the forecast in Iowa, we decided it was time to make like a sandhill crane and…
Joliet, IL Week 2 | Hiking the I&M Canal Trail in McKinley Woods | November 2023 Our second week in Joliet looked pretty similar to our first — just warmer, and us feeling more familiar with the area. We enjoyed going for walks at parks, usually Inwood Park for a short loop, or Ronald D….
Joliet, IL Week 1 | Hiking the I&M Canal Trail | Channahon State Park | November 2023 If I’m being honest, at the beginning of this fall work season, we were much more excited about Curtis’ assignment in Lancaster, PA than we were about this one in Joliet, IL. We had never been to Lancaster…
Driving from Ohio to Michigan to Illinois | Mohican State Park, OH | October 2023 Our third day of driving from Pennsylvania to Illinois happened to be my birthday. I was happy to spend it with Curtis and Charlotte, just enjoying a day in this adventurous life God has blessed us with. What made today…