June 10th 2018 Good MORNING from the Pawnee Buttes National Grassland!!! Seriously waking up to these views make a person never want to go home. This day was filled with a large amount of amazing firsts. We opted for a quick oatmeal breakfast, gathered our hiking gear and hit the trails for our first dry…
Category: 2018 Road Trip
Road Trip: Day 6 – Zoo Animals, Nebraska High Point & finally COLORADO!
June 9th 2018 A bright, warm sunny morning welcomed us to another day of adventuring! Left camp little after 9 am to start the barren drive of Nebraska in hopes of finding some form of entertainment to break up the drive to Colorado. Let me tell ya the options were looking thin as paper. Our…
Road Trip: Day 5 – Mt. Rushmore & Escaping Hail in Rapid City!
Friday June 8th 2018 Center Lake Campground in Custer State Park has been our home for the past 2 nights. We made the damn best of it with cruising Needles Highway, hiking to South Dakota’s highpoint and chilling out enjoying good old fashioned family camping in a beautiful new area but now it was time…
Week 23: Black Elk Peak, South Dakota’s State High Point!
The adventure to South Dakota’s state highpoint was nothing short of incredible. This almost 7 mile long trail will bring you deep into the unique landscape that make the Black hills, past towering granite walls all the way up to the peak at 7,242 feet where a stone fire tower awaits for…
Road Trip: Day 4 – Custer State Park, Needles Highway and SD State Highpoint!
June 7th 2018 Good Morning from Center Lake Campground in Custer State Park! This was a magnificent day to explore we could not have asked for better weather. Started the morning out with a trip to the general store full of very adorable but overpriced items and lots of taxidermy that kept Phoenix occupied. I questioned buying…
Road Trip: Day 3 – Badlands National Park
June 6th 2018 I woke up more than motivated Wednesday morning for still trying to get over the cold Phoenix and I left home with. Waking up to this scene may have some influence. Since the boys weren’t up I decided to go for a run. Running up the surrounding hills was way more challenging…
Road Trip: Day 2 – Rookie Mistakes & Free Camp in National Park
Ahh Day 2 of our Road Trip started out with gorgeous sunshine and the songs of birds. One of my favorite parts of camping waking up right in heart of nature made even better when you don’t have a need for the rainfly and can just relax watching the birds and insects go about their…
Road Trip: Day 1 – A Rough Start
Planning a 3 week Road Trip is a very interesting and meticulous task, one I was super happy to take on. Budget, where to camp, meals, miles/time in between, attractions, resupplies, most importantly how to entertain a 2 year old without losing your sanity and etc. Hard work, saving like crazy and lots of research…
🚙 3 Wks, 9 States, 3600 Miles 🗻
Holy S**T! We just killed it!! On June 4th 2018, Jason and I’s 5 year anniversary we packed up our toddler along with what we needed to survive and set out on our most epic adventure yet, a 3 week Road Trip. That’s a big yet by the way, 278 days till our GRAND ADVENTURE!…
