7 Day Alaska Itinerary | Anchorage, Denali National Park, Homer, Seward
I recently took my first trip to Alaska. My boyfriend and I flew into Anchorage and spent 7 days exploring from Denali to the Kenai Peninsula. You can get all of the details about our time up near Denali National Park here and our adventures on the Kenai Peninsula here. This post is going to […]
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Top 10 Places to Visit in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
I love the U.P. I might go as far as to say that it’s my favorite place in America. Since moving to Minnesota, I started taking the northern route over Lake Michigan to drive back home to my parents’ house in the heart of the Lower Peninsula. It’s given me a ton of opportunities to […]
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Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula | Homer & Seward
Welcome to the second half of our 4th of July week in Alaska. If you haven’t read part one and you’re interest in Denali National Park, click here to read that post. We spent the first four days exploring Denali National Park and Talkeetna and now we head south to the Kenai Peninsula. Homer Homer […]
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Denali National Park & Talkeetna, Alaska
Every year over the 4th of July, my boyfriend and I take a roadtrip. This year we kicked it up a notch and took our first trip to Alaska. I’m still counting it as a roadtrip because we hit the road as soon as we landed in Anchorage. Alaska really lives up to its nickname […]
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore | Michigan
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a 35-mile long stretch of beaches, forest, giant sand dunes and two islands located on the northwest coast of Michigan’s lower peninsula. As a Michigan-native, I grew up learning about the Ashininaabek lore surrounding Sleeping Bear Dunes and the story always made me really sad. There are a few […]
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Kitch-iti-Kipi | Michigan’s Big Spring
Kitch-iti-kipi is Michigan’s largest freshwater spring. It’s located just north of Manistique and a short detour off of Highway 2. It’s within a state park so there is a small entrance fee. According to UpTravel.com “Here more than 10,000 gallons of vibrant, aqua-colored water erupt each minute from the fissures in the limestone base 40-feet […]
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Lac qui Parle, Big Stone and Upper Sioux Agency State Parks | Minnesota
Welcome back to another episode of Casey’s Weekend Warrior Camping Trips! My boyfriend Glenn and I are still on our mission to visit every state park in Minnesota and last weekend we headed west to three of the least visited parks in the state. It was a semi-successful weekend, definitely not as big of a […]
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A Weekend in California: Wedding, Waffles and Walks.
With a landscape as vast and diverse as the state of California, you’d think someone with a travel blog based in the United States would have spent more time there but I’ve honestly only been there a few times and always in major cities like San Francisco or San Diego. The truth is that California […]
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Get lost in Las Vegas with me
Anyone that has been to Las Vegas knows that two days in Vegas is plenty. It’s adult Disneyland and there is 24/7 access to entertainment but it doesn’t take long to run out of money or energy. That said, I freaking love Las Vegas and when my boyfriend Glenn got the opportunity to travel to […]
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Rice Lake and Sakatah Lake State Parks | Minnesota
It’s mid-April and winter is still hanging on in Minnesota. We decided to ignore the fact that it was 28 degrees outside and kickoff our 2022 Minnesota hiking season anyway. Located a little over an hour south of Minneapolis are two state parks, Rice Lake State Park in Owatonna and Sakatah Lake State Park in […]
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