Adventures
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Fontainebleau & New Orleans

For one night of our campout in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, we stranded Shana at the campground as we found accommodation on the 19th floor of the Beau Rivage hotel. The 19th floor of the Beau Rivage is one of 2 “Stay Well” floors where rooms come with well-being amenities like an air purifier, specialty lighted … [Read more…]
Cedar Pass at Badlands National Park and Hot Springs Fire Tower

From Custer State Park we drove Shana east through Rapid City to Cedar Pass campground at Badlands National Park. We were planning to checkout downtown Rapid City, so when our car started making a clunking sound near there it ended up being a necessary visit to downtown Rapid City. A bolt on one of the … [Read more…]
Blue Bell at Custer State Park with Devil’s Tower, Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse

To accomplish our goal of visiting all 48 continental United States we left Makoshika State Park for North Dakota. We crossed the state line and stopped at the Beach interstate exit, so we technically went to a beach this summer! In Beach, we got coffee at Badlands Barista and Boutique, which is an espresso bar … [Read more…]
Makoshika State Park

With no signs of rain relenting upon Glacier National Park we left early heading east to Glendive, Montana for Makoshika State Park. For miles and miles we drove across all of the Big Sky listening to local radio featuring the morning police reports from each Montana county. One by one sheriffs reported how many people … [Read more…]
Moose Creek Resort at Glacier National

With a reliable new set of wheels from Discount Tire we set out for Montana through Idaho. We felt like we whiffed by not getting coffee the mecca capital of rich, dark coffee…Washington. But we lucked out with Terre Coffee in Post Falls, Idaho. As we approached Glacier signs for Huckleberry jams and pies slowly … [Read more…]