Driving the Great River Road from Iowa to Missouri to Illinois | Iliniwek Village State Historic Site | Hannibal, MO | Lewis & Clark State Historic Site | Fort Kaskaskia, IL | January 2024 After a relaxing week spent celebrating Christmas and New Years with family, it was time to get back on the road…
Driving from Texas to Iowa | Camping in Kansas and Missouri | Visiting Fort Larned National Historic Site | December 2023 We broke up the remainder of our drive across the Great Plains over three days, aiming to arrive in Iowa on Christmas Eve. On the first day, we drove North from Caprock Canyon through…
Winter Migration Road Trip, Day 3 | Missouri to Kansas | Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield | George Washington Carver National Monument | November 2023 We woke up at our campsite in Central Missouri snug in our bed, but the cabin temperature was 45. After running the heater to get us above 50, we braved the…
Winter Migration Road Trip, Days 1 & 2 | Iowa to Missouri | Hiking in Ha Ha Tonka State Park | November 2023 Given a couple months of time to be wherever we wanted, and seeing snow appear in the forecast in Iowa, we decided it was time to make like a sandhill crane and…
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,…
Visiting Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site | Last Day of Vacation | A Week in Iowa | January 2023 Curtis: Since visiting mounds along the Natchez Trace last year, we’ve been slowly learning more about the pre-historic cultures of the Eastern United States and visiting more and more mounds, piecing together the academic history with…