Well, I guess you could say we’ve been pretty busy the last year and a half — finishing the house construction, managing our forestland, and working in various jobs and volunteering. No excuse, but we really had no time for the blog. We feel a little badly, as we have
Tag: Idaho
Stop 38: Riding the Route of the Hiawatha
On this stop we were able to cross off a long-time bucket list item! We rode the entire length (down, then up) of the 15-mile Route of the Hiawatha, a hall-of-fame rail-trail experience through parts of the spectacular Idaho Panhandle National Forests. You can simply ride down the rail-trail and
Stop 35: Mountains, Geysers, Waterfalls, and Lakes
This stop was a crazy study of our Earth — including a supervolcano, volcanic hotspots, tectonic faults, and powerful earthquakes — as we visited Grand Teton National Park (#14 thus far), Yellowstone National Park (#15), and Earthquake Lake… as well as continuing our journey following the mighty Snake River. During
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
Stop 33: Idaho from Coeur d’Alene to Boise
Idaho has no national parks, and only a handful of national monuments (all located in the southern part of the state), but that doesn’t mean the state is not worth exploring. We found some beautiful places while visiting Coeur d’Alene, Sandpoint, McCall, and Boise. We stayed in a campground at