June 19, 2014: Finally, the trip we had been thoroughly planning, hardcore preparing, and impatiently waiting for was here – our trip to Flagstaff to hike the highest peak in Arizona! Before we left, we made a list of all the major landmarks we wanted to see, and quality letterboxes we wanted to get. The…
Time flies when you’re having fun. Even in Iowa. 😉 In our one week there, we managed to visit state parks all around our hometown and had two day trips – one to the Southeast corner, the second to the Northeast corner! I would have loved more time, but I’m glad we got to enjoy…
Time to celebrate! Curtis has completed his junior year of college!! Our summer has officially begun! Of course Arizona gave us our first 100 degree days to help get the party started. 😉 We have a nice long bucketlist to complete this summer, ranging from personal things for me like wanting to work on sewing…
Day 6: March 21, 2014 Farmington, NM to Payson, AZ For most of our trip, we had carefully spaced out all the places we were visiting and made sure we were only driving 3-5 hours. But today, we couldn’t avoid a longer (7 hour) drive. We ended up adding on more to our time by…
Stories from Day 4 of vacation – 3/19/2014 – Hiking and touring places around Page, AZ While planning our vacation, we decided it’d be good to just take a day off from “traveling” to stay in one place and enjoy the area. This being the halfway point in the week, it seemed right to stay…
Here we go, day 3! March 18, 2014. Our route: St. George, UT – Page, AZ. A shorter drive with more exciting things between the 2 points. After allowing ourselves to adjust to the time change by sleeping in, we began our trip East – regretfully choosing to not get boxes in St. George. (again,…