Hiking in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park | Lake of the Clouds | Summit Peak | Camping on Lake Superior | Michigan’s Upper Peninsula | May 2024 While we have visited Michigan’s upper peninsula several times, before this week we had never been to one of its crown jewels: the Porcupine Mountains. Today, we were…
Graduation Weekend with Family in Marquette, MI | May 2024 The remainder of our time in Marquette was spent enjoying time with my family. My older sister’s family came in from Minnesota bringing all our nieces and nephews which always makes for high energy outings. We returned to Lakenenland on one of the days so…
Driving from Pennsylvania to Michigan | Schuylkill River Trail | Mt. Pisgah County Park, PA | Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS | Fort Erie, ON | Driving Across Southern Ontario | April 2024 After almost 3 weeks in Pennsylvania and almost 3 months of non-stop work, the outage season was over and we were free to…
Driving from Vidalia, GA to Ottawa, IL | Camping in Land Between the Lakes, KY | Hiking in Ferne Clyffe State Park, IL | February 2024 When our time in Georgia was coming to a close, we were so excited and ready to move on and return to a place we knew we loved. The…
Hiking Scaly Mountain | Highlands, NC | Nantahala National Forest to Oconee National Forest, GA | February 2024 This morning, we packed up and set off for our last hike in the Appalachians for this trip. We had 2 days before Curtis needed to show up for his next assignment, which was about 6 hours…
Hiking to King Falls & Spoonauger Falls in Sumter National Forest, South Carolina | Camping on the Chattooga River | February 2024 After things hadn’t gone according to plan the night before, we weren’t sure how we wanted to spend our day. We also didn’t have phone service at our campsite, so we couldn’t do…