Winter Migration Road Trip, Day 6 | Wichita Mountains, OK to Caprock Canyons State Park, TX | Hiking & Camping in Caprock Canyons State Park | November 2023 As you may recall, this past spring we completed our goal of visiting all 50 states together. When reminiscing about the things we’ve done in each state,…
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, Day 3 | Missouri to Kansas | Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield | George Washington Carver National Monument | November 2023 We woke up at our campsite in Central Missouri snug in our bed, but the cabin temperature was 45. After running the heater to get us above 50, we braved the…
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….