Megan’s Take Today was a road trip day! We decided to travel the Million Dollar Highway to Silverton and Ouray. While Emmett and Emilia don’t really appreciate a scenic drive like we do, they were cooperative and kept themselves busy in the truck. We drove straight to Ouray with beautiful views all along the way, […]
Day 4 – Travel to Durango
Megan’s Take Thank God our children slept in! Based on her attitude, I suspect Emilia was up earlier, but Phil, Emmett and I slept until closer to 7:30 am. We really needed that rest. This morning, we went to Great Sand Dunes National Park to say goodbye. We hiked the 0.5 mile Montville nature trail, […]
Day 3 – Great Sand Dunes National Park
Megan’s Take The kids got to bed at 10:30 pm last night, almost 3 hours past their usual bedtime, so I thought they might sleep in. But no, they were up before 6 am… Today was spent exploring the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Emilia got her first Junior Ranger badge, and both kids had […]
Day 2 – Our personal Oregon Trail
Megan’s Take As if yesterday wasn’t hard enough, when we rolled into our campsite around 10-10:30 pm last night, Emilia was itching her head. I checked, and she has lice. UGH. For all the anxieties that I had about this trip (steep cliffs, sleeping together in a camper, potty logistics on the road etc), lice […]
Day 1 – Leaving home!
Today is the first official day of Phil’s sabbatical. We had been planning to leave yesterday (Friday) afternoon, but there was some severe weather that we wanted to avoid. So we left before 6 am today. After about a half hour of driving, Emmett said “mama, we here now?”…. Unfortunately, we had trailer issues right […]
Counting Down the Days
In 4 days from now, we will have started our travels for the 2025 Sabbatical trip, ending at our first campground at Lincoln Trail State Park. This trip is going to be a big one, and it’s going to be awesome! Check out our itinerary here. For those of you who are interested in following […]
Devil’s Tower
Today was mainly a travel and church day. We started off with church at 8:00 AM and then drove for a few hours to reach Devil’s Tower by about 12:30 or so. The featured image above is a view of Devil’s Tower from the road as we were nearing it. We hiked a couple of […]
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area and Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Today was partly a travel day and partly used to browse the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area and Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Our first visit was the canyon, which was absolutely amazing. The real treat was at the Devil’s Canyon Overlook, featured in the main image above. Here’s a panorama view from that same […]
Buffalo Bill Center of the West and Old Trail Town
This morning the effects of the wildfire west of us, near the border of Yellowstone, were visible toward the end of the lake, but the view was incredible. This picture was taken at the shoreline directly below where our camper was parked. You can see the heavy clouds off in the distance. We thought those […]
Buffalo Bill Center of the West and Buffalo Bill Dam
Today was primarily a travel day, from our campsite in Parkside Campground in Custer National Forest in Montana to Buffalo Bill State Park just west of Cody, Wyoming. Although there were not many sites to see along the way, we did see this interesting old abandoned mining facility. Apparently this is where the worst mining […]