October & November at Home | Section Hiking the Wabash Trace Trail from Strahan to Imogene | Fall 2021 After returning home to Omaha, we thoroughly unpacked and cleaned our car, stored our camping gear in the garage, did laundry, put away our luggage, and settled back into our normal routine. Out of all the…
Visiting the Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park | Platte River State Park | August 2021 The beginning of August marked one whole year of living in Nebraska! I can’t believe how fast time has passed for us here, and that we’re already halfway through our time here (depending on how things play out over…
Walking the Papio Trail | 36th to 72nd Street | Omaha, NE | March 2021 As the temperature is warming up and summer is quickly approaching, we are getting more serious about training and preparing for our hiking plans this year. At home, that looks like dehydrating fruit and preparing other healthy and space-efficient trail…
February 2021 The month of February has been relatively uneventful for us. While December and January were fairly temperate (20-30 degrees) with a decent ratio of snowy-to-sunny days, this month has tested our “anything is possible when the roads are clear and you wear enough layers” attitude. We spent a good couple weeks struggling to…
Walnut Creek Recreation Area | October 2020 Pandemic and political drama aside, October was a pretty good month for us. For the first two weeks of the month, Curtis attended a training related to his job, which would let out early enough in the afternoon so that we could go out for hikes every day….
End of September & Beginning of October 2020 | Hiking in Desoto National Wildlife Refuge | Visiting Fort Atkinson State Historic Site During the last week of September, Curtis had to travel for work. We were a little bummed that I couldn’t go, as we had always talked about how post-submarine life I could just…