Visiting Freedom Park | River City Star Cruise on the Missouri | Omaha, NE | August 2022 As August was wrapping up, we decided to spend a Sunday afternoon downtown checking off a few more of our “Omaha Bucket List” items. We did really well accomplishing our goals for Nebraska and Iowa as a whole,…
Hiking the MoPac Trail across the Platte River | Louisville, NE | August 2022 We knew going into August that our time in Nebraska was likely coming to a close, but it still didn’t feel real since we didn’t have any firm plans in place for our next move. However, we know from all our…
Pony Creek Conservation Area | Glenwood, IA | 9 Year Wedding Anniversary | July 2022 At the end of July, we celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. I’m not sure where all those years went, or how we’re even old enough to have been married for that long, and I can’t believe we’re now into our…
Kayaking on Lake Desoto | Desoto National Wildlife Refuge | Steamboat Bertrand Collection Museum | July 2022 Ever since we visited Desoto National Wildlife Refuge in October 2020, we knew we wanted to come back as soon as we bought a kayak. Ideally we wanted to visit when migration season was in full swing, but…
The Henry Doorly Zoo | Omaha, Nebraska Growing up in Iowa, it was always just a known fact that the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha was the best zoo in the country — it even ranks top 5 in the world! It made for an easy weekend trip, and I have several happy memories of…
Kayaking the Niobrara River from Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge to Smith Falls State Park | Hiking in Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge | Valentine, NE | May 2022 The main purpose of our trip to Valentine was to kayak a section of the Niobrara River. This was one of the first things on our “Nebraska bucket…