Road Trip to Wilmington, NC | Iowa to Illinois | Fort Madison, IA | Nauvoo, IL | Hannibal, MO | Pere Marquette State Park | Shawnee National Forest | September 2023 After spending most of July in Wilmington, NC, we agreed that would be our last visit together this year. And yet here we were,…
Spring Break Road Trip 2022 | Day 9 | Hiking in Taum Sauk Mountain State Park | Visiting the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City | Jackson, TN to Omaha, NE | March 2022 When we woke up this morning, we didn’t know that today would be the last day of vacation. We had planned…
Spring Break Road Trip 2022 | Day 6 | Natchez National Historic Site & Driving the Natchez Trace Parkway | Goldonna, LA to Rocky Springs, MI | March 2022 Day 6 of our road trip was the day when we would enter Mississippi for our first time, as well as hit our Southernmost point for…
Fall Foliage & Family Trip 2021 | End of Vacation – Minnesota-Wisconsin-Iowa-Nebraska | Timms Hill | October 13-17, 2021 We awoke on Wednesday morning in our tent at the rustic campground, pleased to find that once again it hadn’t rained on us that night. We packed up our belongings, then went to watch the sunrise…
The day after our wedding, we took off on a 2 week long honeymoon that Curtis (my HUSBAND!!!) had planned for us. We started by driving 6 hours to St. Paul, MN. We made our first stop along the way in Decorah, IA, searching for letterboxes. We didn’t find any that first day, but that most definitely…