Road Trip with Jess’ Family | Driving from Port Angeles to North Cascades National Park to Glacier National Park | June 2021 On Monday morning, our stay in Port Angeles was up and it was time to begin heading East. We had spent a lot of time coming up with a fun route back to…
Road Trip with Jess’ Family | Weekend on the Olympic Peninsula | Hiking the Klahhane Ridge Trail to Lake Angeles | June 2021 On Saturday morning, one week after we had departed from Omaha, we packed up the car and finished cleaning our Tacoma rental house before hitting the road. We had another rental house…
Road Trip with Jess’ Family | A Week in Tacoma | June 2021 We left Portland at 11AM on Monday and began the 3 hour drive to Tacoma. Knowing that we couldn’t check into our rental home until after 3, I suggested that we drive out to see Mount Saint Helens. We would be limited…
Road Trip with Jess’ Family | Omaha, NE to Portland, OR | June 2021 As of this summer, I have two siblings living in the Pacific Northwest. Back when Curtis and I moved to Omaha, I told my parents that if they were ever planning a vacation to visit them, that I would be interested…
A Summary of the Week After Hiking the Centennial Trail | May 2021 We awoke the morning after completing the Centennial Trail sore and still with tender feet, but thankful to have slept better than we had in over a week. The only thing on the agenda today was to make the long drive back…
A long term goal of ours has always been to backpack long distance trails. We aren’t interested in dropping everything for 6 months and doing a cross-country trek like the Appalachian Trail; instead, we’ve set our sights on relatively shorter trails such as the Arizona Trail, Colorado Trail, and Hayduke Trail. But since we can’t…