We arrived at the northern precipice of our 2017 travel route with ambitions to kayak along the shoreline during our two-day stay at Pictured Rocks National Seashore. It was not until the drive up from Sleeping Bear Dunes that we read of the kayak restrictions; 15 feet or longer and...
Thanks to Nina & Paul for turning us on to this great place. I had completely overlooked it in our route planning even though it is a National Lakeshore (part of the NPS). Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore would actually become my 100th National Park visited since I started this...
Yep, our visit to Kentucky was that quick. Actually a week long, but other than a work week we had only two days in the state that we did any sight seeing. We originally planned to stay two weeks, but instead decided to move at a faster route to cram...
Leaving the baby goats behind, we continued our North West. Within a few short minutes of driving a brown sign was inviting us to stop in at Cumberland Gap National Historic Park. Here we were able to drop the trailer at the visitor’s center, drive the truck up to the...
After a week on the Eastern side of the Smoky Mountains, we made the decision to jump over the National Park to get at least one day’s adventuring on the East side of the park on our way into Kentucky. As luck would have it a storm was passing through the area...
A drive up – or down in our case – the Blue Ridge Parkway is a must when in the area of the Smoky Mountains, so on our first full day in the area we went for it… even the dogs came along. Never mind the weather reports, the views...
Finally, some mountains! It has been far too long for this mountain man to be away from home. The Great Smoky Mountains came to my rescue – literally pulling me out of a months long funk of grumpiness (ask Kerri, she knows). I have been looking forward to visiting this...
After a two week stay, we rolled out of Savannah and its sweltering heat and oppressive humidity. Although we removed Charleston from our route before coming to the Savannah, the broken AC unit has forced our hand in making a multi-day stay in Charleston for a scheduled appointment at the...
This was it man! This was the whole reason we came all this way; backpacking Cumberland Island National Seashore. It was months of planning, preparing, and a lot of anticipating, but the weekend was finally upon us. My back pain gone (again) and all the gear ready to go we...
After the scares of tornadoes and gators, we finally arrived in Savannah for our scheduled two week stay and the precipice of our journeys this year. Even though we would be here for twice as long as we normally stay in any one location, we really only had a single...
