We visited the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on day 5 of our visit to NYC. The last time Andrew and I visited NYC and went to the statue, we weren’t able to get tickets into the statue or pedestal because they had sold […]
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National Park Recap: Governor’s Island National Monument
When researching fun things to do in NYC, Governors Island came up in quite a few places so we decided to make a visit. Weekend mornings before noon are free to ride the ferry, so we woke up early on Saturday and rode the LIRR […]
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 […]
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 […]
National Park Recap: Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park caught us by surprise. Most of South Dakota is rolling hills and prairie, and out of nowhere the Badlands show up in the middle with impressive geologic formations, fossils, and pinnacles. We took a daytrip from Rapid City. Daytime temps were expected […]
National Park Recap: Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Crazy Horse Memorial
Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Crazy Horse Memorial we visited in the same day. We have mixed feelings about Mount Rushmore because of the politics of taking sacred indigenous land and carving white dudes’ faces into it. Mount Rushmore apparently was conceived of, funded, and […]