The North Shore of Minnesota is beautiful all year round. But the North Shore in the winter? Amazing. I am blown away. We planned this weekend trip a few months ago, and I was extremely worried that a January trip would be cold, foggy, icy and miserable. We luckily came on a warm weekend where [...]
With the exception of the one weekend I ventured out to Colorado for a weekend, this fall was all about exploring Minnesota and finding more local hikes. While I love to travel and explore new hikes across the world, weddings were a big (and expensive!) part of my fall, so I stuck around Minnesota the [...]
You could probably guess how much I love New England since this is the third post about it. While I lived in Boston, we were only in the city during the weekdays. We loved being able to take advantage of the weekends and travel all over New England. The small, quaint beach towns were my favorite, [...]
Yep, still doing the 52 Hike Challenge and my biggest learning experience is that sometimes it is SO HARD to find time to take a simple hike. I thought this challenge would be a piece of cake for me throughout the summer and I found myself discouraged when I fell behind because life got crazy. I caught [...]
Ending my national park series with Acadia because it's my favorite place on earth! Honestly, I'm the kind of traveler who rarely visits a place twice - just because I'm so excited to see new places - but Acadia is going to be a repeat for many, many years. When folks ask that ever-popular "If [...]
I don't want to start every national park post with a "this was better than I expected" mantra, but the Badlands blew me away. We only booked a day exploring this well-known national park because we thought the Black Hills/Custer State Park (our final destination) would be more our pace – but it was all [...]
While passing through southern California from a wedding, we took the opportunity to check out the hot desert of Joshua Tree National Park. It's a can't-miss – but for the reasons you might not think of. I own a "Secrets of the National Parks" books by National Geographic. I love what it has to say [...]
My husband and I sit in the quaint Band Box Diner in the Elliot Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. We’re enjoying delicious burgers and fries while reminiscing about our summer in Boston, when we lived in the heart of Beantown, visiting every beach town on the map. Elliot Park is our time capsule, opening up memories [...]
I was excited about going to the Black Hills just to get out of the city for a while, actually surprising myself with how much I appreciated the park. South Dakota is so underrated. We took a days' detour through the Badlands (more on that coming soon!) and then set up camp in Custer State [...]
Living in the middle of downtown Minneapolis can make it difficult to get outside and be in nature. Although there were quite a few factors that played into my decision to get involved in the 52 Hike Challenge community, this was my biggest reason. I've been struggling with living in a small apartment in the [...]
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