Week 2 in Ottawa, IL | Hiking the Hennepin Canal Trail near Bureau Junction, IL | February 2025 On our second day off in Ottawa, we decided to drive a little further to go for a walk on the Hennepin Canal Trail, a long distance path that goes from the Illinois River to the Rock…
Joliet, IL Week 2 | Hiking the I&M Canal Trail in McKinley Woods | November 2023 Our second week in Joliet looked pretty similar to our first — just warmer, and us feeling more familiar with the area. We enjoyed going for walks at parks, usually Inwood Park for a short loop, or Ronald D….
Joliet, IL Week 1 | Hiking the I&M Canal Trail | Channahon State Park | November 2023 If I’m being honest, at the beginning of this fall work season, we were much more excited about Curtis’ assignment in Lancaster, PA than we were about this one in Joliet, IL. We had never been to Lancaster…
Week One in Ottawa, IL | Dayton Bluff | Ottawa Riverwalk | Allen Park | I&M Canal Trail | February 2023 Curtis’ first assignment with his new job brought us to Ottawa, Illinois for the month of February. It was a quick and easy drive over on I-80 after leaving my parent’s house in Iowa…