Moores Creek National Battlefield | Fort Anderson State Park | Oak Island | November 2022 For our one weekend in Wilmington, we wanted to get out of town and hit some of the historic sites neighboring the city. There was supposed to be a Veterans Day parade downtown, so we made an effort to get…
Driving to Wilmington, Days 2 & 3 | Shawnee National Forest to Wilmington, NC | Hiking & Camping in Cumberland Gap National Historic Site | November 2022 The second day of our road trip began with wind and rain, forcing us to forgo the plans we had for that morning and continue driving. The roads…
Herbert Hoover NHS | October 2022 in Iowa After returning from our trip out West, we spent the second half of October in our hometown in Iowa, where my parents so very graciously opened their home to us. (We’ve looked at places to buy or rent here for whenever we’re “home”, but the housing market…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | Drive Back to the Midwest | Fishlake National Forest | Capitol Reef National Park | Little Wild Horse Slot Canyon | McInnis Canyons | October 2022 After over a week on the road, it was time to start making our way back to the Midwest to prepare for what was coming…
Southwest Road Trip 2022 | Our Time in Great Basin National Park | Hiking Mt. Wheeler | Stella Lake | October 2022 After leaving Cathedral Gorge, we started the drive North on US-93 to Great Basin National Park. The scenery around us was exactly how we imagined it would look like — a long, mostly…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | North Rim to Enterprise, UT | Kaibab National Forest | Pipe Springs National Monument | October 2022 Our night on the Kaibab Plateau was not only our highest in elevation, but the coldest overall, with nighttime temperatures reaching below freezing, and when we woke up there was a veneer of frost…