Virginia Trip 2021 | Days 6 & 7 | Dahlgren, Fredericksburg, and Colonial Beach, VA As soon as we arrived in Dahlgren, it became apparent that we had simply too much planned for the short 2 days that we would be here. I briefly mentioned this at the end of our last post, but as…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 5 | WV to VA | Spruce Knob | Shenandoah National Park Day 5 of our Virginia trip was our 8th wedding anniversary, and it ended up being our favorite day of this vacation. We had to be in Dahlgren that night so that Curtis could be at work early…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 4 | PA to WV | Ohiopyle State Park | Mt. Davis | Flight 93 National Memorial | Spruce Knob Lake We started off day 4 of our trip with a short early morning hike to see Cucumber Falls in Ohiopyle State Park. The lot was empty when we arrived,…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 3 | OH to PA | Ohio State Capitol | Friendship Hill | Fort Necessity | Ohiopyle State Park After our first eventful night of camping, we packed up quickly and hit the road headed East. We had a few national park sites that we wanted to visit, but were…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Days 1 & 2 | Driving from NE to OH | Hoosier Hill, Indiana’s Highest Point Over the last year, Curtis has had to travel several times for his job, but until this point I had never been allowed to go with him. However, a trip finally came up where I…
Section Hiking the Wabash Trace Trail | West Branch of the East Nishnabotna River to Strahan, IA | July 2021 On July 9, a big storm rolled through Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa. We woke up to the sound of wind howling after midnight, and Curtis got up and quickly moved our tomato plants and…