nine days . seven states . five parks . 3,500 miles 2020 Road Trip West Itinerary Friday, July 31 to Saturday, August 8, 2020  07.31.20 . Day 1 – Drive through WI and MN. Stay in Sioux Falls, SD. 08.01.21 . Day 2 – Cross South Dakota. Visit Badlands N.P.… Read more: 2020 Road Trip – Out West – 9 Day Itinerary

We began our 2020 Roadtrip on a Friday after work and were hiking in the Badlands by 8 am Saturday morning. It was a haul and involved a few hours of driving in the dark but was totally worth it.  We stayed in Sioux Falls, SD and woke up at… Read more: How We Had a Good Time in the Badlands

Custer State Park in South Dakota is seriously underestimated. Complete with accessible wildlife, fun roads, great hikes and scenery to ogle over, this is another one of the rare places I hope to travel back to one day. In fact, my favorite hike of the entire roadtrip was in this… Read more: Custer State Park Knocked My Socks Off

Rocky Mountain National Park’s location in the center of the United States and near Colorado’s most populated region makes it a very popular destination for visitors both near and far. For us, it made for a great day trip from Fort Collins, CO, where my sister and her husband were… Read more: Wildlife, Hiking, and Mountain Vistas at Rocky Mountain National Park

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus, Nobel Prize of Lit. 1957 Each visitor creates their own experience here and there’s definitely no wrong way to go about it. So, in writing this blogpost, I decided to simply share a few tips and showcase the visual highlights… Read more: Experiencing America’s Oldest and Most Iconic National Park; Yellowstone.

Surrounded by great plains, this hidden gem of a National Park contains gorgeous views, ample wildlife, and gets nowhere near enough hype. I hadn’t even heard of it until we started planning this road trip. I feel this is due to the park’s location in rural western North Dakota with… Read more: It’s Easy to Feel Relaxed at Theodore Roosevelt National Park