What a year we have had — traveling thousands of miles while visiting 12 of the 48 contiguous United States in the western region of the country! In 2018, we spent about a month exploring, biking, and hiking in Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Tag: Oregon Trail
Stop 46: The Surprising Wonders of the Nebraska Panhandle
From our multiple national park adventures and vehicle maintenance work in South Dakota, we headed down to the Nebraska Panhandle (located in the western part of the state) to relax for a few days… but we discovered that perhaps this area of the state is the most diverse and interesting
Stop 34: Rocks, Trails, and Lots of Lava
Just wow. This leg of the trip surprised and amazed us. Our venture to southern Idaho opened up amazing worlds to us — of wildflowers blooming in lava fields, of hiking to the top of a volcano, to climbing over rocks once covered but revealed through erosion, of witnessing the