Southwestern Trip 2022 | Great Sand Dunes to Canyon of the Ancients | Zapata Falls | Big Meadows Reservoir | Wolf Creek Pass | Treasure Falls | Lowry Pueblo | October 2022 *A quick note before beginning today’s post: Over the past couple weeks I had to move my blog onto a new server. I’m…
This month, I’m celebrating two big milestones: my 30th birthday on the 27th and 10 years of blogging on this website. In honor of that, I want to write a post to celebrate, and to commemorate my favorite decade of my life so far. I don’t think it’s necessary to go over all the details…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | Lake Scott, KS to Great Sand Dunes, CO | Camp Amanche | Bent’s Old Fort NHS | Great Sand Dunes National Park | October 2022 When we woke up at Lake Scott, it was overcast, dreary, and cold. But the region around the lake was so nice, we decided to at…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | Omaha, NE to Lake Scott, KS | Leaving Nebraska | Center of the Contiguous US | Nicodemus NHS | Lake Scott State Park | October 2022 We woke up bright and early on our last morning in our apartment in Bellevue, a little anxious but feeling more ready to finish up…
Sometimes life comes at you swiftly — One day you’re commissioning as an officer in the Navy, then you’re embarking on your first, second, and third PCS move, reporting to your first boat, reporting for shore tour…. Next thing you know, you’re in your final weeks and preparing for your transition into civilian life. That…
Trip to Minot, ND Day 9 | South Dakota’s Whispering Giant | Laura Ingalls Wilder Sites in De Smet, SD | September 2022 Our last day of our Minot trip began with a nearly 3 hour drive to Aberdeen, South Dakota. We began early because we had an appointment to view the South Dakota Whispering…