The near 750,000 gal/sec of water, cascading over Niagara Falls, was an impressive amount of water to behold. The water which hit the bottom with over 2000 tons of force (on the Horseshoe Falls side) sent a mist akin to […]
The ninety percent humidity rolled off the brilliant green foliage in the cool of the morning at the Illinois Beach Park. Step to the front. Step to the back. Shuffle to the side. Smack!. The dance with a hundred mosquitos […]
There is never a day that is the same. Days are random and unpredictable. I am trying to get used to it and make the most of it as I don’t normally work well that way. School is super consuming […]
For the fourth day in a row we are on the road again. Thursday we left Colorado after playing a family soccer game with Hewitt relatives. It was really nice getting to be able to see everyone again. We decided […]
We are now driving past endless fields of corn on the monotonous, unbroken topography of Nebraska. The beauty of the mountains in Colorado and the shimmering bright yellow of the aspen trees are already a memory that seems so long […]
We arrived in the Denver area the night before last to visit Chicory’s Colorado family. Four of his six siblings and their families live here, so we have been spending most of our time catching up. We decided to skip […]
Arches National Park was our last stop in Utah. We only had one day here. So, after we did school and work for the day, we headed up to see what we could see before the sun set. We saw […]
This morning , we hiked the canyons among the hoodoos, up and down and around (and repeat over 50 more times?). Although we only hiked six and a half miles, and did a combined elevation gain of approximately 2200 feet, […]