Hiking & Camping in Hanging Rock State Park | Indianapolis, IN State Capitol Building | Driving from NC to IA days 2 & 3 | November 2022 We awoke in our tent in Hanging Rock State Park bright and early on Saturday morning, and immediately prepared to go for a hike. One of the incentives…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Days 8 & 9 | Driving from West Virginia to Nebraska | Gateway Arch National Park The final two days of our Virginia trip mostly consisted of long drives and short stops. We rose early in our campground at New River Gorge to find low-hanging clouds hovering around the mountain ridges,…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 8 | Appomattox Courthouse | New River Gorge National Park After leaving Spotsylvania Courthouse, we began heading Southwest via VA-208 West, US-522 to Powhatan, and US-60 West, trying to avoid traffic around Richmond. Our next stop for today was at Appomattox Courthouse National Historic Park, which wasn’t exactly on our…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 5 | WV to VA | Spruce Knob | Shenandoah National Park Day 5 of our Virginia trip was our 8th wedding anniversary, and it ended up being our favorite day of this vacation. We had to be in Dahlgren that night so that Curtis could be at work early…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 4 | PA to WV | Ohiopyle State Park | Mt. Davis | Flight 93 National Memorial | Spruce Knob Lake We started off day 4 of our trip with a short early morning hike to see Cucumber Falls in Ohiopyle State Park. The lot was empty when we arrived,…
Virginia Trip 2021 | Day 3 | OH to PA | Ohio State Capitol | Friendship Hill | Fort Necessity | Ohiopyle State Park After our first eventful night of camping, we packed up quickly and hit the road headed East. We had a few national park sites that we wanted to visit, but were…