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A trip to: Rocky Mountain National Park
Dates visited: October 2024 This was Juno’s introduction to travel at 3 months old! My girl loves traveling dirt roads with the boot window down and hanging out with her puppy cousins. Her first adventure was to Colorado where we visited Rocky Mountain National Park and the surrounding areas (including side quests to the Great…
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A trip to: Grand Canyon & Sedona
Dates visited: December 2024 As far as road trips go, my visit to the Grand Canyon was beyond memorable. This adventure was a spur of the moment trip that I took with my brother, Joe, who is probably my favorite person in the world outside of my kids. Actually, there’s no “probably” about it. It’s…
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A trip to: Great Sand Dunes
Dates visited: October 2024 and May 2025 Juno & I have had the pleasure to visit Great Sand Dunes National Park twice, and each visit has been remarkable! The first time I visited, I was lucky enough to see the Northern Lights over the dunes. It was such an awe-inspiring experience that left me sobbing…
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A trip to: Grand Teton & Yellowstone
Dates visited: October 2024 & July 2025 Juno & I have been to Yellowstone twice. Once with my brother, my sister & her husband, and their two dogs. It was originally a trip to just the Rocky Mountain National Park & surrounding areas with our new puppies (just months old!), but as the trip grew…
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A trip to: Pickwick Lake & Shiloh Battlefield
Sundays are for sleeping in. PERIOD! Yesterday we visited the Wolf River Greenway, which was all we had planned to do over the weekend. I usually proclaim Sundays as my “rest” day and organize for the week ahead. However, still riding high with enthusiasm for our endeavor to adopt an outdoors-focused active lifestyle and crush…
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A trip to: Wolf River Greenway
So yesterday was our first documented adventure! The players for today’s trek? Just my 17 year old son and I! My oldest son had to work, and my daughter just couldn’t muster enthusiasm for physical activity early on a Saturday morning, which I respect! As we are in the middle of a pandemic, the kiddo…
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