Our First Visit to New York City | 11th Wedding Anniversary Getaway | Visiting Theodore Roosevelt National Historic Site | Taking the Staten Island Ferry at Sunset | July 2024 Our visit with Curtis’ brother happened to fall over the weekend of our 11th wedding anniversary. Joel and his friends graciously offered to watch Charlotte…
Driving from Seboeis Public Reserved Lands to Mars Hill, ME | Visiting Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument | Hiking Mars Hill | June 2024 After kayaking on Seboeis Lake, we got back on the road and continued driving Northeast. Our plan for today was to drive from here to Mars Hill near the Canada…
Driving from the Blue Ridge Parkway to New River Gorge National Park | Hiking Buffalo Mountain, VA | Visiting New River Gorge National Park | Camping at the Gauley River Campground | June 2024 We started our day at Rocky Knob Campground along the Blue Ridge Parkway, which is easily becoming one of our favorite…
Spending 2 Weeks in Wilmington, NC | Driving from Wilmington, NC to the Blue Ridge Parkway | June 2024 We spent the first week and a half of June in Wilmington, NC. The first week was for Curtis to attend a conference, and the half-week was for training. We tried out a new hotel for…
Visiting Cumberland Gap National Historic Park | Hiking the Pinnacle Overlook Trail | Camping in Campground | Hiking to White Rocks Peak | May 2024 The part of this road trip that we had been most looking forward to had arrived: we had made it to the mountains, and with that came cooler, less humid…
Driving from Eastern Iowa to Central Illinois | Visiting Lincoln Home National Historic Site | Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site | Springfield, IL | May 2024 After a refreshing week in Iowa, it was time to kick off this summer’s travels. Curtis has a few work assignments scattered throughout the summer which will dictate where…