Scenic State Park
Classic Northern Minnesota! We decided to take a down day between family stops, and Scenic State Park was nicely situated for a halfway…
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Rainy Lake Sailing
A beautiful Northern Minnesota day! If you can’t go to Canada, at least you can look at it as you sail along… Perfect…
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Historic Forestville
Not the best photos, but a great day trip down memory lane. Colette spent many summers here in Historic Forestville as a kid,…
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Hawkeye Point Iowa High Point
Hawkeye Point – yay Iowa! Another highpoint done for no other reason than highpointing… Congratulations to someone in the Chamber of Commerce for…
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Palisades State Park
Palisades State Park is another hidden gem in the Great Plains states. Tucked away in the southeast corner of South Dakota, it is…
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Toadstool Geologic Park
Another cool little find, and definitely way, way off the beaten path. Toadstool Geologic Park and Campground is in northwestern Nebraska, in the…
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Carhenge Nebraska
One of the beauties of skipping miles and miles of concrete superslab is seeing oddball bits of Americana that you’d never even know…
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Eastbound Driving
Lots of little stops that don’t warrant their own photo album. Chimney Rock, Nebraska – one of the most documented waypoints on the…
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Scotts Bluff National Monument
As we were looking at the dreaded Great Plains states looming wide and desolate between us and our family we’re headed to visit…
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Mountain Weather
We love to poke fun at anyone who says “If you don’t like the weather here, just wait a few minutes” since everybody…
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R-Pod Road Trip
We’ve talked about a Sprinter van or some other small camper for quite a while. Since we’ve lived in two RVs already, we…
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Stone Mountain Trail
It’s been a month to the day since our last post, we’ve been heads-down with work and same-old same-old. We’re helping a neighbor…
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Hiking Sky Pond
When the forecast calls for 52 degrees and sunshine, we must play hooky again! Back into Rocky Mountain National Park to bang out…
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Storm Mountain
With the warm Colorado winter sun melting a lot of the snow on the south-facing slopes, I decided to hike up Storm Mountain…
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Hiking Crosier Mountain
52 degrees and sunny on February 2nd? That means it’s time to play hooky and get some mountain time in! Unfortunately Colette has…
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Ypsilon Lake Snowshoeing
AllTrails lists the Ypsilon Trail hike as 9.2 miles, 2,496 feet of elevation gain, and a Medium difficulty rating. I concur with the…
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Hiking Chasm Falls
With permission to play hooky on a Wednesday, we loaded up spikes and snowshoes and headed to the Park. Surprisingly enough, despite the…
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Climbing Estes Cone
Making use of yet another day of reduced crowds in Rocky Mountain National Park. Normally the Longs Peak trailhead parking lot is completely…
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Rocky Mountain Christmas
Since we love nontraditional holidays – why not a hike in the Park? We figured that crowds would be low, so we would…
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Rocky Mountain Lakes
Off-season means low crowds, might as well bang out some of the hikes you just can’t get to in the summer without hordes…
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Balanced Rock Hike
Although we’ve already done the first section of the Cow Creek Trail, we haven’t done the circuit up to Balanced Rock. While the…
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