Autumn in New England has always been on the bucket list, and we were told that there’s no better place then Stowe, Vermont so we started there and set up camp just out of...

Thousand Islands is a series of islands, actually 1864 islands, on the St. Lawrence River within the border of the US and Canada in upstate New York. The St. Lawrence is significant as it...

Continuing our trek across New York state from west to east, brought us to the Finger Lakes region. The Finger Lakes are a series of eleven narrow lakes south of Lake Ontario. Although the...

About 90 miles southeast of Buffalo, NY is an amazing state park. Letchworth State Park, coined the Grand Canyon of the east, traverses 17 miles of the Genesee river through a deep gorge. Within...

Niagara Falls was a convenient stop on the way from the U.P. of Michigan to New England. It seemed like more of a “we should” stop rather than someplace we must go. We tend...

Growing up in suburban Chicago we frequented lake Michigan, whether is was hanging out at Glencoe beach or going out to hook that big Coho Salmon. The state of Michigan was never on my...

Updated October 2023 to add new content at the end of the blog from our return visit. The Black Hills of South Dakota, where the granite hills glisten, the Buffalo roam the prairies and...

The Badlands National Park is located in beautiful South Dakota about an hour east of Rapid City. We spent 11 days in the area at the end of June to the start of July...