Trip to Minot, ND Day 8 | International Peace Garden on the North Dakota/Manitoba Border | Geographical Center of North America | White Horse Hill National Game Preserve | Sheyenne National Grassland | September 2022 Our return trip South to Omaha began with a 2 hour drive North to the International Peace Garden on the…
Trip to Minot, ND Day 3 | Badlands National Park to Reva Gap Campsite | Kayaking in Pactola Reservoir | Hiking to Buzzard’s Roost | September 2022 We awoke on the morning of our third day of travel to beautiful pastel skies, with the sun rising over the buttes and the Harvest moon setting. Charlotte…
Hiking the MoPac Trail across the Platte River | Louisville, NE | August 2022 We knew going into August that our time in Nebraska was likely coming to a close, but it still didn’t feel real since we didn’t have any firm plans in place for our next move. However, we know from all our…
Pony Creek Conservation Area | Glenwood, IA | 9 Year Wedding Anniversary | July 2022 At the end of July, we celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. I’m not sure where all those years went, or how we’re even old enough to have been married for that long, and I can’t believe we’re now into our…
Section Hiking the Wabash Trace Trail | Coin to Blanchard, IA | Camping in Coin | July 2022 After we hiked our last section of the Wabash Trace, from F Ave to Coin, we knew it would take 2 more days to finish the trail from Coin to Blanchard. We also knew that we were…
Kayaking the Niobrara River from Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge to Smith Falls State Park | Hiking in Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge | Valentine, NE | May 2022 The main purpose of our trip to Valentine was to kayak a section of the Niobrara River. This was one of the first things on our “Nebraska bucket…