relishing the life God has given us
Memorial Day Weekend Road Trip 2021 | Driving From Omaha to Halsey | Hiking and Camping in Nebraska National Forest Curtis had a 4 day weekend for Memorial Day, and we couldn’t just not take advantage of that this year! While we still have over a year left in Nebraska, our schedule for the rest of this year is already… Read More
Hiking Around Iron Horse Lake | Pawnee City, NE | Seneca, KS | Hiawatha, KS | January 2021 Our first full week back in Nebraska since before Christmas was warm and pleasant, full of frequent walks around lakes, both old and new. The storm that had passed through the Midwest the week before left everything blanketed in snow and since… Read More
Hiking the Kuilau Trail | Kauai | August 2018 Initially we didn’t have any plans for our last few hours on Kauai. We thought we’d drive up as far as we could on the North shore. However, when traffic proved to be much heavier than expected, we decided to forgo that plan and instead just turned onto a random road heading… Read More
Moving to Hawaii • Cape Disappointment • Astoria, OR • September 15, 2017 Jess: On our last day in Washington, we left our campsite in Olympic National Forest and continued to follow US-101 South towards the Columbia River. We drove down to Cape Disappointment State Park for the morning. I’m sorry to say, but it really didn’t live up to its name. 😉… Read More
In an effort to catch up this site on our adventures before life gets crazy again, today we are sharing about a variety of hiking and exploring that we’ve done in Southeastern Connecticut. Some of these were just short afternoon outings, while others were day trips — just a little too uneventful to be made into their own post. Rocky Neck State… Read More
Lock 12 Historic Park • Sleeping Giant State Park • July 25, 2017 Curtis: On the recommendation of a friend, we decided to take a midweek trip to go hiking at Sleeping Giant State Park. Believe it or not, but Southeastern Connecticut is flat — at least flat in comparison to the Adirondacks or Arizona. Whenever we get the chance to hike… Read More