Week One in Ottawa, IL | Dayton Bluff | Ottawa Riverwalk | Allen Park | I&M Canal Trail | February 2023 Curtis’ first assignment with his new job brought us to Ottawa, Illinois for the month of February. It was a quick and easy drive over on I-80 after leaving my parent’s house in Iowa…
Visiting Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site | Last Day of Vacation | A Week in Iowa | January 2023 Curtis: Since visiting mounds along the Natchez Trace last year, we’ve been slowly learning more about the pre-historic cultures of the Eastern United States and visiting more and more mounds, piecing together the academic history with…
Russell Cave National Monument | Noccalula Falls | Cheaha State Park, Alabama’s Highest Point | January 2023 On Thursday morning, we packed up our car once again and said goodbye to our last rental house of this trip. We drove North into Tennessee, took I-24 to Kimball, then went South on US-72 into Alabama. Our…
Hiking in Cloudland Canyon State Park, GA | January 2023 The morning of our last full day around Chattanooga was supposed to be rainy, so we decided the night before that we would sleep in and be productive in the morning, then spend the afternoon hiking at a nearby state park. It seemed like a…
DeSoto Falls State Park, Alabama | Little River Canyon National Preserve | January 2023 On our second day in the Chattanooga area, we awoke to temps in the 20s and frost on the ground. We bundled up for today’s adventures and once the frost was scraped from the car, we got on the road and…
Amicalola Falls State Park | Fort Mountain State Park | January 2023 Just as predicted, Sunday was a cold and rainy day. If we had already been in our next rental house, we probably would’ve just taken the day to relax, but we couldn’t check in until after 3. That gave us 8 hours to…