This is a very quick post to wish you all a very happy holiday season! Just before Christmas, Jeff had the opportunity to travel to Calgary for work and spent part of a day exploring the beautiful winter wonderland of Banff National Park. What better way to wish you happy holidays than to share some […]
With a little bit of time off work, we had the opportunity to take a long weekend trip this weekend and opted to go to Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. This park lies in southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee, and we have previously visited the area on the Kentucky side, so we
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After a gorgeous few days in Pukaskwa National Park, we continued southwest, back into the U.S. to continue to explore Lake Superior along Minnesota’s North Shore. There is so much to see and do that it was difficult to decide which attractions to see this time, and which ones to leave for a future visit.
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Around the lake we go! From Sault Ste. Marie, we headed through the border into Canada (no problems at the border crossing) and continued north and west to Pukaskwa National Park. Now, before you mis-read this entire blog post, we will go on and correct your pronunciation. It is pronounced puck-a-saw. We have no idea
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Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a long strip of land that sits between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake in western Kentucky and Tennessee. Outdoor recreation opportunities abound here and there seems to be a little something for everyone! We will get to all that, but let’s start with where we stayed. There
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We are wrapping up a few days at Mammoth Cave National Park in southern Kentucky. Since it is somewhat close to home, we have been here several times before, and because it is one of our favorite places to visit in Kentucky, it was one of the first places we thought of when we knew
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Well, we made it back to our home in Kentucky a little over a week ago. With our year(ish) adventure at an end, it is time to reflect on and wrap-up some of the statistics about the trip and answer some of the questions we have been asked. First, let’s look at some statistics: Number
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The last few days have been spent in the Ocean Springs, MS area. We are staying in the Davis Bayou Campground of the Gulf Islands National Seashore. This is a really nice campground with paved sites that are all equipped with electric and water and there is a dump station on site, too, so we
In our effort to continue east, we spent only a few days in Oklahoma before continuing on into Arkansas where we spent a few days in Hot Springs. To get (partially) from Oklahoma to Hot Springs, we chose to travel the Talimena National Scenic Byway. This is a 54 mile, two lane road between Talihina,
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We recently spent a couple of nights at the Vista Linda Campground near Jemez Springs, NM. This is a small, quiet campground that sits right alongside the Jemez River and is framed by some gorgeous cliffs. There are only 13 or 14 sites here, but they are all large, paved, and some even have really
We are still in western New Mexico and our day today was spent at El Malpais National Monument. This is a large national monument that would best be explored in two or three days, but we only had one, so we did our best. Part of the problem we encountered is that we are staying
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Well, it is the middle of November now, which means we need to begin making our way east in earnest in order to make a few scheduled stops to visit with family, and then home for Christmas. We don’t plan to give up seeing the sights along the way, though, so today we spent the
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If you have been following the blog for a while, you will know that the biggest disappointment of our trip thus far was having to cancel our Grand Canyon reservations in March due to snow. After this week, though, we are disappointed no more! Returning to Arizona this fall was never in our plans. We
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Right up front, let us say this…We had a less than great experience at Great Basin National Park, but it does not mean that it isn’t an amazing place to visit. In fact, a lot of the reasons it wasn’t the best weren’t the fault of the park at all. We both really want to
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We had to make one last stop in Idaho before heading out of the state! On our way south we stopped in Twin Falls. Honestly, we were expecting it to just be a stop for chores, but this town has so much to offer that we didn’t hit even half of it! We will definitely