The kids asked to take Friday “off” from early wake-ups, museums, hikes, etc. We agreed and scheduled a day that was to be anything they wanted to do. Their major idea was to take the Jackson Hole tram to the top of the ski mountain and walk around the area. But Aleah insisted that it […]
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I’ve had some great foiling sessions since we left DC. Down the East Coast as we stayed in one great beach after another I expected to get in some winging and I wasn’t disappointed. Since we left the coast I’ve also found some wind and water in Missouri, South Dakota, Nebraska, and today I checked
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So proud of this family today! They crushed our Tetons goal hike climbing almost 3000 feet vertical on an 11 mile trail. A bit longer than it should have been because of a parking area full of people doing less ambitious hikes. The Jenny Lake hike was a great buildup for this one. Spectacular views
We have a few hikes planned in Canada that are many more miles than we are accustomed to, so we are trying to go on increasingly longer hikes now. Today we packed up our camelbacks and headed to Jenny Lake after attending a morning ranger talk at Jackson Lake Lodge. The talk was more of
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If you have been keeping track, you will notice that we are retracing many of our stops 20 years ago on our first cross country. Chris loves Lander, WY so of course we had to stop here again. We both remember visiting a ghost town during that trip and I bought a quilt from a
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Normally we only stop occasionally on the way to our campsite to get fuel and go to the bathroom, but today we stopped no less than three times to look at famous landmarks and monuments. The first place we stopped was Chimney Rock. Chimney Rock is the most mentioned landmark in journals made by migrants
This week we went on a boat 🚤 ride. We rented a Pontoon boat and a raft and some water skis. Bother and I rafted until our fingers felt like falling off. We both also tried waterskiing, neither of us were very good but we did try. We also saw a bunch of dark brown
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Nebraska has amazed me. We are camped at Lake McConaughey in Ogallala, Nebraska for the week. It is beautiful. This lake is the largest in Nebraska and has over 1500 camping spots! It also has beautiful white sand beaches. Nebraska’s soil in this area (known as the Sandhills) is only sand. No topsoil in sight.
The RV has a decent, small shower. However, because of the size of the holding tank for waste water and our limited hot water, we need to take sea showers. A sea shower is a shower in which you turn off the water when you are not actively wetting down or rinsing off. Our shower
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We were at the Stevens’s house for the Fourth of July weekend. The house is right on a lake, it’s so close that instead of a backyard there is a beach. The lake gets super deep really quick, which is nice because I can dive off of the dock. There’s also a boat which I
