Ohio ended up feeling the most developed to us. There are relatively few camping opportunities in the state and rarely did we drive any distance without feeling we were near civilization. The very first visit was to drive through Daytona…
By Michigan we've begun to realize how much the Great Lakes have to offer. And we've only seen two! We worked our way up the west side and spent a few days in the Huron-Manistee National Forest. The weather was…
Just like in the song, we hit these states back to back. This was also the point where we had to figure out what counted as "visiting" a state on our trip. Iowa was a bit out of the way,…
Apostle Islands in on the upper shore of Wisconsin has been gaining some popularity online from pictures of its ice caves. It hadn't really occurred to us until we arrived that we were in the same place until we entered…
We visited quite a bit of Minnesota. Along the coast. Up to Grand Portage National Monument and over to Voyagers. But it seems that I only took pictures of the BWCAW (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness). I was a bit…
A bit of a confession: we didn't spend much time in North Dakota. I'd like to say it's because we needed to get to Minnesota so we could canoe the Boundary Waters so that we could then have time to…
The black hills are magical. And a bit touristy. Especially on a weekend in the summer. After our regrettably quick exit from the Badlands, Kate was bound and determined to see Bear Country, which is a drive through wildlife safari/sanctuary.…
Going into South Dakota we only planned a day and a half to hop into the Badlands. It seemed that we'd already seen some in New Mexico and we were sure that the Black Hills would offer more for us.…
Nebraska! Home of the... uh... 'Huskers? And longest stretch of straight highway in the U.S. We saw neither of these. Western Nebraska is where it's at. Growing up in Colorado, you'd think I would know a bit more about the…
We took a planned pit stop in Missouri for a week for a nice family reunion. Not really a pit stop as much as a planned milestone. Our trip took a change in scenery and we were feeling a bit…