Visiting Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site | Last Day of Vacation | A Week in Iowa | January 2023 Curtis: Since visiting mounds along the Natchez Trace last year, we’ve been slowly learning more about the pre-historic cultures of the Eastern United States and visiting more and more mounds, piecing together the academic history with…
Visiting Shiloh National Military Park | Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park | January 2023 We woke up in Mississippi to a brisk morning. Not as cold as Alabama had been, but still cold enough that, once out of the tent, we didn’t stick around very long. A cold front was moving through the country and…
Visiting Horseshoe Bend National Military Park | Flagg Mountain | Cheaha State Park, Alabama to JP Coleman State Park, Mississippi | January 2023 We woke up on the highest peak in Alabama to arguably one of the colder mornings we’ve camped through in recent memory. Frost on the tent, frost on the car, and all…
Russell Cave National Monument | Noccalula Falls | Cheaha State Park, Alabama’s Highest Point | January 2023 On Thursday morning, we packed up our car once again and said goodbye to our last rental house of this trip. We drove North into Tennessee, took I-24 to Kimball, then went South on US-72 into Alabama. Our…
Amicalola Falls State Park | Fort Mountain State Park | January 2023 Just as predicted, Sunday was a cold and rainy day. If we had already been in our next rental house, we probably would’ve just taken the day to relax, but we couldn’t check in until after 3. That gave us 8 hours to…
Tellico Plains, TN to the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains | Hiking Blood Mountain | DeSoto Falls Recreation Area | January 2023 On Friday morning, it was time to leave our cabin in Tellico Plains and move on. We had found a rental house near Chattanooga, TN that was very affordable and had everything we look…