Road Trips
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Midwest/Southern State Road Trip: Gateway Arch, Mammoth Cave and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks – 2025
In September 2025, Jarrett and I embarked on another National Park trip! The first part of our trip would be spent checking out three National Parks and the rest of the trip would be spent exploring some spots in Kentucky that we’ve been interested in seeing. Our trip started with a direct flight from Boston…
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Lake George, New York – 2025
My college roommates and I are still really close, even though we graduated college 17 years ago (ew, that’s wild to think about). We’ve been through milestone birthdays, the death of a parent, breakups, weddings and babies. Even though we don’t all live together anymore, we still prioritize seeing each other a few times a…
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California Parks Road Trip: Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Channel Islands and Pinnacles National Parks – 2025
While Jarrett and I have been traveling together for years, and have been focused on more outdoorsy vacations recently, we had never been camping together. It’s something we had been wanting to try but we were a little nervous to pull the trigger. At the end of 2024 we were plotting out our next vacation…
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Texas and New Mexico Road Trip: Big Bend, Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands National Parks – 2024
By now you know that Jarrett and I are on a mission to visit all 63 U.S. National Parks (if you didn’t know this, poke around on my page a bit, you’ll see a lot of information about them). One of the parks I was really excited about visiting was Big Bend, in southwestern Texas.…
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Colorado Road Trip: Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Rocky Mountain National Parks – 2024
We knew on our quest to visit all 63 US National Parks that we’d be making our way to Colorado, which we were really looking forward to. My friend Liz (she appears in my hiking recaps frequently) had moved to a suburb of Denver in 2019 and was nice enough to offer her house as…
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Midwestern Road Trip: Chicago, Indiana Dunes National Park & Cuyahoga Valley National Park – 2023
While I prefer to be in nature when traveling, I do like exploring cities too! In 2018 Jarrett and I went to Chicago for a long week, primarily to cheer on our friend Colleen running the Chicago Marathon. In October 2023, she ran the Chicago Marathon for the 2nd time. Since we had enjoyed our…
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Dog-friendly Road Trip to Shenandoah, Congaree and New River Gorge National Parks – 2023
This was the hardest blog post for me to write – which is why I’ve been putting it off for months. And before I can even dive into the story about our trip, I need to go into a little bit of a backstory, so please bear with me. Back in 2012, Jarrett and I…
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California Road Trip (Seqouia, Kings, Yosemite and Tahoe) – 2022
I’ve mentioned in some other posts that the Covid pandemic ruined an amazing trip Jarrett and I had planned. If you didn’t read the other posts (c’mon on, go back and read ‘em!), we were planning to go to Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks and then head up to the Lake Tahoe area…
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Sister Road Trip: New York, Virginia & North Carolina – 2022
This story begins with a podcast and some concrete. My friend Prince and his friend Jaycob had a podcast (SHOUT OUT TO “The Dogfathers”!) for quite a few years. During a 2020 episode, Jaycob mentioned a concrete artist he discovered in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. As always, when someone mentions something they think is…
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Utah and The Mighty 5 – 2021
Strap in folks, this is going to be a long one! Since 2020 ruined the California trip Jarrett and I had planned, we knew we needed to go big in 2021 once it was safer to travel. We really wanted to go to Yosemite National Park in the spring when the waterfalls would be flowing…
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