Portland, Maine consisted primarily of eating and visiting the Children’s Museum of Maine. We ate amazing lobster rolls and fried haddock, and potato donuts. We even got to meet up with my friend Jen for dinner one night during a crazy lightning and rain storm. […]
Year: 2021
National Park Recap: Acadia National Park
Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor were our home for 3 nights. Our campsite at Bar Harbor Campground had an ocean view. This is a great campground to stay at. They had tons of first come first serve campsites with different levels of hookups. There’s […]
National Park Recap: Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was a late addition add to our itinerary. We decided to stay 2 nights in Millinocket, Maine and spend a day seeing the monument. The monument is pretty new, and doesn’t have a Jr Ranger program yet. The visitor […]
Travel Recap: New Hampshire
We stayed at an old CCC campground called Blackberry Crossing just outside of Conway, NH. The drive from Stowe to our campground was beautiful and took us from the Green Mountains to the White Mountains. Our campground was situated right in the White Mountains and […]
Travel Recap: Vermont
Our route took us to Manchester, Burlington, and Stowe, VT. We stayed 2 nights in each location. We stayed in the Green Mountains northeast of Manchester the first 2 nights in Vermont. It was a beautiful campground in the woods where we were very secluded. […]
Travel Recap: Upstate New York
We spent a week seeing upstate NY starting at Niagra Falls. We explored the overlooks and then rode the Maid of the Mist boat up to the falls. After we went and had lunch at the restaurant Above the Falls. Next we went to Rochester […]
National Park Recap: Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Cuyahoga Valley National Park is an interesting park. It has several areas with quite a few hikes but you have to drive to them. Unfortunately we really only had 1 day to check this place out and it was super rainy all day. We broke […]
National Park Recap: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
We drove north from Ann Arbor to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to visit Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and Petoskey on the drive back down. Pop quiz: What do the people there call themselves? A) YooperB) YupperC) YuppieD) Uppity We didn’t get a FCFS spot at Bay Furnace, but luckily found […]
Travel Recap: St Louis, MO and Gateway Arch National Park
It’s been a while since we made a blog post! From Voyaguers National Park we traveled to Iowa, Wisconsin, and Chicago to visit with several of Andrew’s family. We made a day trip from Chicago to Indiana Dunes National Park. I took about 2 pictures […]
National Park Recap: Voyageurs National Park
We stayed 1 night at Woodenfrog State Park on Lake Kabetogema (I’ve been practicing how to say that in person ever since). There are a couple small little hikes around it. We saw a mama deer walking around the campground and she startled and walked […]