St. Croix State Park | Day Trip from the Twin Cities
We had beautiful weather in Minnesota this past week. 74 degrees on November 8th!? It doesn’t get much better than that. (It’s a blizzard outside as I write this but we’ll just ignore that.) We took advantage of this brief warm spell and headed out of the cities to do some hiking. St. Croix State […]
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Congaree National Park | South Carolina
Every couple has that one summer in their life where everyone they know is getting married. Most of your weekends are spent traveling and you drop thousands of dollars on hotels, attire and gifts. It’s a rite of passage. For my boyfriend Glenn and I, this was supposed to be our summer of eight—yes, eight—weddings. […]
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MyCanoe Pop: The Foldable Canoe Review
So yeah, we own a foldable canoe. And it turns heads, to the say the least. There hasn’t been a single time that we’ve taken it out and NOT gotten stopped by someone wanting to know if we were in fact unfolding an entire canoe. MyCanoe launched on Kickstarter in March of 2020. We purchased […]
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Hiking the Bluffs | Great River Bluffs, Whitewater & John A. Latsch State Parks
Last Saturday, Glenn and I took a day trip from Minneapolis down US Route 61 along the Mississippi River. We had planned on visiting John A. Latsch State Park and Great River Bluffs State Park but as we were driving we realized there were actually four parks in the area. Obviously, as the state park […]
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Day Trip from the Twin Cities | Lake Mille Lacs
It’s the time of the year again, temperatures are dropping and everyone is flocking north to see the fall colors. We used last Saturday to head up to Lake Mille Lacs which about an hour and a half drive straight north from Minneapolis. It’s the second largest lake in the state and you can barely […]
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Take a Trip to Southwest Minnesota | Blue Mounds State Park, Pipestone National Monument and More!
For the past decade or so, I’ve taken a trip abroad every other year. I have a full-time job and a mortgage, every other year is just what’s doable for me. But in case you hadn’t heard, there is a global pandemic running around. Life has changed and we’ve done our best to adapt. Summer […]
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Grand Marais and Minnesota’s North Shore
To celebrate our two year dating anniversary, my boyfriend Glenn planned a surprise weekend away to Minnesota’s north shore. I’m usually the planner in the relationship but this time I let him take the reins. Most of the activities were a surprise but he’s one of those people who gets too excited about fun things […]
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Red Wing & Frontenac State Park | Day Trip from the Twin Cities
I’m not going to lie to you, this is going to be one of those unnecessarily long blog intros. I need to let it out because working from home has been a real grind lately. Don’t get me wrong, I feel very fortunate and appreciate of my job right now but it’s just that I’ve […]
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Copper Harbor and Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula
For the past couple of years, I’ve used the long 4th of July weekend to take a road trip. First I went on a solo camping trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and last year my boyfriend Glenn and I rented a camper van and went out west to Yellowstone National Park. Even though everything is […]
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Afton State Park | Day Trip From the Twin Cities
Last weekend, we visited our 20th Minnesota State Park! I think that’s pretty impressive given that we’ve only lived here  for a year and a half and that Minnesota is covered in three feet of snow most of the time. Our most recent day trip was to Afton State Park, one of the most […]
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