This post is going to be a quick overview of Wild River State Park. It’s located along the St. Croix river about an hour north of Minneapolis. We visited for a little Saturday morning hiking but it also has campgrounds, cabins, horseback riding trails, canoeing and cross-country skiing in the winter. The leaves were just […]
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Hi everyone! Welcome to the last stop on our 10-day July 4th roadtrip and this also happens to be the 100th post on my blog! If you missed the first four stops and you’re interested in hearing about how we got here you can check out the posts about Apostle Islands, Porcupine Mountains, Marquette and […]
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The Tahquamenon Falls were the second to last stop on our 10-day road trip across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s one of the most popular attractions in the state and as a born and raised Michigander, I had somehow never been. We were coming off of a few days in a hotel in Marquette and it […]
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After four days of camping (check out the posts on the Apostle Island and Porcupine Mountains if you missed them) we decided to break up our 10-day road trip with a stop in Marquette, Michigan. We passed through Marquette last year to pick up some sleeping pads for camping (which we still use to this […]
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Exactly one year ago, we stopped at the Porcupine Mountains for a few minutes on our way to Copper Harbor. This time, we came back to do it all! The Porkies were the second stop on a 10-day roadtrip along the southern shore of Lake Superior. Our campsite was at the White Pine Extension Outpost. […]
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A few years ago, I took a solo camping trip over Fourth of July weekend and that trip started a tradition of road trips every Independence Day. My boyfriend Glenn and I rented a campervan and headed west to Yellowstone and last year we had a pandemic-friendly week in Copper Harbor, Michigan. This year we […]
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Hello from Minnesota! Our time in South Carolina had to come to an end eventually and it feels surreal that 4 months could fly by so fast. But being back in Minnesota means that we can resume our mission of visiting every State Park. We had a big road trip planned over the week of […]
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After a year of working from home in Minneapolis, my boyfriend and I took a break from winter and spent a few months in South Carolina before our offices reopen. If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’d know that I am an ‘outdoorsy’ person. Give me some hiking boots and a trail […]
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Hello from Surfside Beach, South Carolina! If you’re new here, you can check out my posts about moving to South Carolina and our time in Beaufort to get caught up. Today, we are on the home stretch of our time down south. That’s right, just one month until we head back north and I already […]
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Huntington Beach State Park is about a twenty minute drive south of Myrtle Beach on the coast of South Carolina. It has 3 miles of beach, campsites, nature trails and wetlands filled with reptiles and birds but what makes it super unique is the castle! Well, “castle.” Atalaya Castle was built in the 1930s as […]
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