Canadian Rockies Road Trip, Days 2 & 3 | Minnesota to Alberta | Big Stone NWR | Fort Dufferin | June 2023 On day 2 of this road trip and of van life, we continued driving Northwest along the Minnesota River where we made an unplanned stop at the Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge. We…
Trip to Minot, ND Day 9 | South Dakota’s Whispering Giant | Laura Ingalls Wilder Sites in De Smet, SD | September 2022 Our last day of our Minot trip began with a nearly 3 hour drive to Aberdeen, South Dakota. We began early because we had an appointment to view the South Dakota Whispering…
Trip to Minot, ND Days 4 & 5 | Reva, SD to Minot, ND | Theodore Roosevelt National Park | Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site | September 2022 On day four of our trip to Minot, we packed up our campsite in Reva Gap Campground, then made our way West to take US-85…
Trip to Minot, ND Day 3 | Badlands National Park to Reva Gap Campsite | Kayaking in Pactola Reservoir | Hiking to Buzzard’s Roost | September 2022 We awoke on the morning of our third day of travel to beautiful pastel skies, with the sun rising over the buttes and the Harvest moon setting. Charlotte…
Montana Trip 2021 | Hiking in Strawberry Hill Recreation Area | Driving through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska | October 2021 We started off this morning with a 3 mile loop hike around Strawberry Hill Recreation Area, where we had camped the night before. The air was brisk, but we warmed up quickly…
Montana Trip 2021 | Driving from Omaha to Bismarck, ND | September 2021 In late September, Curtis was assigned to another work trip. After all our summer travels, we were feeling worn out and thought maybe we would pass on the “free vacation” this time and just have Curtis fly out and back. But then,…