Since returning from our epic road trip and getting settled into our home, we made another major change- we’ve adopted a pup! Duke Silver is a pit bull/Catahoula mix who was rescued in Arkansas. He lived in a shelter, then with a foster for a while before finally coming our way via puppy bus, and…
We left San Francisco rather early on the 26th day of our trip and headed east. We planned to get in over ten hours of driving for the day, landing somewhere around Salt Lake City for the night. My husband has a friend who lives there now, and luckily it worked out that he and…
We had an excellent sleep in our tent the night before making it to San Francisco- total darkness was something we had forgotten about during out time in the land of the midnight sun, and it was so welcome! We made it out of the campsite early in the morning and headed for San Fran,…
The drive from Vancouver to Seattle was very short compared to lots of other drives we’d been having on this trip. We arrived in the early afternoon and were very excited to meet up with my husband’s college friend at his apartment. He was kind enough to open his home for us to stay there…
We had another somewhat unglamorous road trip day after the nearly five hour drive to Watson Lake. We found a travel stop there where my husband could handle a conference call for work while I did some laundry and organized the car. Then it was time for the very, very long drive to Vancouver. We…
Our first order of business on this day in Anchorage was to get the car in for a check-up. Not the most glamorous or exciting morning, but very, very necessary! After an oil change and tire rotation, we were back on the road for more Alaskan adventures. At the Matanuska Glacier, we paid a fee…
We did a lot more driving on the Alaska highway with plans to cross the border and make it to Anchorage for the night. It was a pretty road, but a major highlight of this stretch was taking a walk with a grizzly bear (more accurately, a grizzly bear took a walk and we followed…
On day 8, we headed for the border! I haven’t been to Canada since visiting Prince Edward Island with my family back in the early 2000s, and I have never been this far west in Canada at all, so it was very exciting to enter our neighbor to the north. We crossed the border in…
On the way from Gillette, WY to Yellowstone, we stopped at the Buffalo Bill Dam for a little break. Really we just wanted to stretch our legs, but we ended up enjoying the quick tour around the top of the dam and the informative visitor’s center. The dam was built in the early 1900s as…
After leaving Chicago, we did lots of driving before stopping for lunch in Minnesota at a regional chain called Culver’s. It took a little bit of time to get used to the 80 MPH speed limit! We ended up in Mitchell, South Dakota for the evening to make a stop that my husband had made…
We set off in our little SUV with two suitcases, a cooler full of snacks, a tent, lots of miscellaneous gear, and most importantly, an atlas. We relied on this atlas very heavily, turning to the almighty Google Maps app just two or three times over the course of the trip. Our first destination was…
After an epic summer road trip that brought us to 19 states, 3 provinces, and countless amazing places, my husband and I have planted our roots. We are officially the owners of a beautiful old stone farmhouse that we cannot wait to make our home with a little love and lots of tender loving care.…
