We started planning this trip a year ago when Katie’s cousin from Boston visited Minnesota for a wedding in the family. We didn’t think too much about it at the time but the more research we did on Boston and New England we started to get excited and starting booking things! We decided we would… Read More

  This adventure started with Katie surprising me with a 30th birthday trip to see my brother and sister in-law in Ketchikan AK!! They manage Settlers Cove State Recreation Area which is at the dead end of the main road on the island. Dave and Adrienne are living in Alaska working as camp hosts for Settlers Cove State… Read More

We usually try to plan our trips a year in advance. This year has gotten kind of turned around and instead of doing a 2 weeks SW Road trip in September/October, We are saving a week and going to meet Dave and Adrienne in Alaska in the fall. The other week we will be going… Read More

Welp if the suspense from the wait hasn’t heightened enough that’s okay because in this post we not only finish our Hawaii trip but we live thru the Hawaiian Ballistic Missile Scare of 2018. So where we left off on the last post of Kauai, HI 2018 Part I : was where the locals weren’t too… Read More

  We booked this trip like we do a lot of our trips – a year in advance. We decided on January because it’s cold here in Minnesota and it’ll be nice to get away to somewhere warm! We booked an AirBnB, flight and rental car. We touched down in Kauai, HI after having a… Read More

We were descending a desolate Mt Hood around 5AM and we rounded a turn on highway 35 and our trip took a crazy turn. We could see that the road was glare ice, feel the truck and trailer gliding as if it was on a well groomed ice rink and looked at each other with… Read More

I am writing this trip report over a year after this trip actually took place. We had been planning this trip for a year and finally it was time to starting packing up the Tundra and camper. (little history: the year prior to the trip I started building a small camper with my dad on… Read More

Before I start talking about Beulah let me explain a little about my brother and sister-in-law. I touched on this in the post about us going to Yellowstone and Stanley but let me clarify and give some background information. They met in kindergarten and then started dating in college. Got married and bought a great… Read More

We’re usually pretty good about planning and booking our trips at least a year in advance. Over a year ago my parents had sent out a mass text to the family about going to Stanley, ID for a family vacation in August 2017. I grew up going out west on camping trips with my family… Read More