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…
Visiting Shiloh National Military Park | Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park | January 2023 We woke up in Mississippi to a brisk morning. Not as cold as Alabama had been, but still cold enough that, once out of the tent, we didn’t stick around very long. A cold front was moving through the country and…
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 2 | Pineville, MO to Ozone, AR | Visiting Pea Ridge National Military Park | Hiking to Hawksbill Crag | February 2022 Our second morning of vacation started off cold, so we hurried to pack up our things and get into our warm car. We started our day…
Spring Break Road Trip 2022 | Day 1 | Omaha, NE to Pineville, MO | Fort Scott National Historic Site | KS/MO/OK Tri-Point | February 2022 We’ve done a lot of road tripping throughout our 8.5 years of marriage, especially throughout the last year. But there is one part of the country encompassing 3 whole…
Thanksgiving 2021 in Iowa | Beginning of Arizona Trip 2021 | Iowa to Kansas | November 24-27, 2021 In my last post, I alluded to another work trip that Curtis had at the end of November that we had spontaneously decided to turn into one last road trip for the year. After all our driving…