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…
Trip to Minot, ND Days 1 & 2 | Omaha to Badlands National Park | Kayaking in Merritt Reservoir | September 2022 This year, we made a conscious decision to travel less over the summer. Some of that was driven by Curtis finishing school, some by major life changes we expected to have to work…
Seeing the Covered Bridges in Madison County | Visiting Family in Iowa | August 2022 This summer has been much less eventful compared to summer 2021. We’ve stayed close to home, visited a few local attractions we hadn’t seen yet, and mostly focused on preparing for the future. But for the first weekend of August,…
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…
Kayaking on Lake Desoto | Desoto National Wildlife Refuge | Steamboat Bertrand Collection Museum | July 2022 Ever since we visited Desoto National Wildlife Refuge in October 2020, we knew we wanted to come back as soon as we bought a kayak. Ideally we wanted to visit when migration season was in full swing, but…
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…