Northeastern Kansas Road Trip | Holton, Topeka, Lyndon, & Emporia, KS | Camping at Chase Lake | March 2021 The beginning of March brought warmer temperatures day after day, each day nicer than the next. Being born and raised midwesterners, we know that this is likely a ‘false spring’ and that we’ll still have some…
Hiking in Niobrara River State Park | October 2020 We had an interesting night camping beside the Missouri river. The wind picked up and shook the tent throughout the night. Big fish flopped around all hours of the night, and some fishermen arrived and put their boat in the water here sometime between 2-3 AM….
Visiting Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historic Park | Camping in NE Nebraska | October 2020 With warm weather quickly dissipating, by the second weekend in October we were trying to make the most out of what nice nights we had left. We started looking for a place to run off, see the sights, and go…
Weekend in the IA-MN-SD Tri-State Area | August 23, 2020 On Sunday morning, we packed up our tent and got back on the road. We drove back into Iowa, made our way to US-75 and began heading South. For our first stop, we drove to Le Mars, IA, which is known as the ice cream…
Weekend in the IA-MN-SD Tri-State Area | August 22, 2020 The month of August was exactly as hot and humid as you’d expect for a Midwest summer. However, we weren’t adjusted to it at all. We hadn’t seen temps or humidity that high since…well, last summer when we were on the mainland. It was tempting…
Island to Inland PCS Road Trip | Day 9 | August 2, 2020 | Scottsbluff National Monument, Chimney Rock, and Arriving in Omaha On the last morning of our road trip, we packed up our tent one last time and drove back to Scottsbluff. We knew we’d have around 2 years to explore Nebraska, but…