Here are some trips and a few day trips I’ve taken, some with Louie, a few without. Most recently we’ve gone to Norway, Ontario, and Chautauqua, New York. Feel free to ask me any questions!
2024:
MO70 Pedal and Paddle Adventure
Sweden, Finland, and Estonia Trip:
- Day 1 and 2: St Louis to Gothenburg
- Day 3: Shrimp and Salmon Cruise in Gothenburg
- Day 4 and 5: Finishing Up in Gothenburg
- Day 5 and 6: Starting our time in Stockholm
- Day 7: Seeing an Opera at Drottningholm
- Day 8: Vasa Museum, Skansen, and Jazz
- Days 9-11: More of Stockholm
- Days 11-13: Ferry to Turku and More of Turku
- Days 13-14: Helsinki Part 1
- Days 14-15: 36 Hours in Tallinn, Estonia
- Days 16-17: Last Days in Helsinki (Bike, Sauna, and More!)
New York and Philadelphia Trip:
- St Louis to Manhattan to Brooklyn
- Brooklyn to Elizabethtown
- Elizabethtown, Lititz, and Back to Philadelphia
- Philadelphia to Home
Quick Trip to Chattanooga and Nashville
2023:
Road Trip to New Mexico and Colorado:
- Oklahoma! Not just an amazing musical.
- So many cliff dwellings…they must have seen them on Instagram or something.
- Ouray or the (Million Dollar) Highway
- Okay, so the Black Canyon is really pretty black
- One Night in Crested Butte isn’t enough
- Gorgeous Royal Gorge and Lots of Rain in Mueller State Park
- The High Points: Breckenridge, Frisco, and Vail
Niagara Falls and Ontario Road Trip:
2022:
Norway: Oslo, Bergen, Balestrand:
- Preface: Things that are awesome about Norway/Things that are not quite as awesome
- Part 1: How we got to Norway and then to Bergen
- Part 2: Bergen, where we got lucky and also unlucky
- Part 3: The Fjords, not terribly af-fjordable, but terribly beautiful
- Part 4: Back to Oslo, for longer than expected.
- Part 5: Seeing Oslo on my own
- Overall Recap: Our Trip to Norway, In a Nutshell
Other Trips: Austin, Texas and Garden of the Gods, Illinois:
- Two Nights in Golconda/Garden of the Gods
- Austin: If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the Chili Parlor?
2021:
Various Trips: SC, Georgia, Phoenix, Du Quoin, St. Genevieve, Chautauqua:
- Christmas/New Year’s Trip South: Clinton, SC, Congaree National Park, Macon, and Atlanta
- Thanksgiving trip to Phoenix on Spirit Airlines
- Getaway to du Quoin
- Hawn State Park and St. Genevieve
- Chautauqua, New York visiting family
Arkansas Travelers:
- Two Nights in Little Rock
- Two Nights in Hot Springs
- Deep into the Ozarks for Two Nights
- A Quick Stop in Fort Smith
- Two Nights in Fayetteville and Bentonville
2020:
Yellowstone or Not Trip: The trip that we weren’t sure we would take until we did:
2019:
Road Trip to Yellowstone, Glacier, Banff, and more!
- Part 1: What Happened to Scott?
- Part 2: This is my {Bison} Jam
- Part 3: There are still a few glaciers left…for now
- Part 4: Tons of Water in Waterton
- Part 4a: Pikas, Marmots, Bison, and More!
- Part 5: Banff, Black Bears, and Beyond
- Part 6: There are no mountains in Jasper National Park
- Part 7: These lands don’t seem so bad after all
Other trips: Eureka Springs, Branson:
Southern Road Trip Summer 2018: Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Edisto Island, Clinton, and Atlanta:
Other Trips in 2018: Colorado, NYC, Philadelphia:
Camping 2017: Smoky Mountain National Park, Asheville:
- Part 1: Waiting for the Bears to Attack
- Part 2: It doesn’t look any bigger than the Mauritania
- Part 3: Didn’t see many ashes in Asheville
- Part 4: How much bob can a Bobcat bob
- Hawn State Park
- Float Trip and Baseball Sized Hail
Fall 2016: San Francisco, Washington DC:
Road Trip Summer 2016: Colorado, Utah, New Mexico:
- And so it begins…to Aspen
- Bear Necessities
- Leaving Aspen…Good Riddance
- Moving Along
- No Such Thing as a Dead Horse
- Feeling at home in Arches National Park
- Entering the Fiery Furnace
- A Night Off the Ground
- The only Good forest is a Petrified forest
- What the Heck is a Hoodoo?
- And Yet Another Car Insurance Claim
- Which Side of the Canyon is Grander?
Phoenix, Sedona, and the Grand Canyon (May 2016):
Chicago (Spring Break 2016):
Road Trip (August 2015)-Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota:
- Part 1: There and Back Again
- Part 2: Bouldering in Boulder
- Part 3: Camping isn’t so bad
- Part 4: There really is no place like Wyoming
- Part 5: Yellowstone…everything here is more amazing than anywhere else
- Part 6: Yellowstone again because one post was taking me entirely too long to write
- Part 7: The End of the Road
Italy (May 2015):
- Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will I blog about it in one day
- The Appian Way
- The Vatican Museum is just one long line to see the Sistine Chapel
- The Colosseum
- All sorts of good things
- Skulls and Femurs and Tibias, oh my?
- Onward and Upward to Orvieto
- Getting home is never really worth the trouble
Road Trip to Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains (August 2014):
- Nashville
- Finishing Nashville at the Chattanooga Aquarium
- Chattanooga and Rock City
- Great Smoky Mountains, Hiking, and Bears
Random Short Trips: Philadelphia, Local hiking:
Philadelphia: Happy Belated Thanksgiving
Local Trips/Day Trips:
- Taum Sauk State Park
- Columbia Bottom Conservation Area (includes Jacks Fork Float Trip)
- Castlewood State Park
- Al Foster Trail
- Howell Island Conservation Area
- Bell Mountain and Toughness is just a word
Old Trips Worth Mentioning Anyway: