We’ve always intended to at some point do a U.S. leg (or two), because there are so many awesome things to see here in our very own country. But we always thought we’d need to wait for our income to be a little higher to be able to really do it. COVID-19 accelerated our plans…
MO Via Moab
We planned a bit of a detour for our route home to Missouri from Oregon so we could fit in a couple of other national parks that were high on our list: Arches and Canyonlands. It added several hours to an already long drive (I think making the trip 32 hours rather than 28), but…
Oregon Trails
I have to say, we had an absolutely wonderful month in Oregon. I could already tell when I posted my Gleneden Beach: We’re Home post that we were going to love it and we did. By the time we left, I started thinking of it as “M’oregon” because it just seemed to have more of…
Gleneden Beach: We’re Home
Why choose the Oregon coast for a month-long stay in late fall? Because it is beautiful here and being the off-season, far less crowded and more affordable than in the summer. And it seemed like it would be the part of the northwest where we’d find the most temperate weather. This has proven true –…
Pals, Parks, and Portland – the three P’s of the PNW
We ended up planning over two weeks of travel between our two long stays in this leg because there is a lot of the Pacific Northwest (aka, the PNW) we wanted to see. So after three nights at Yellowstone and a quick stop in Missoula, we were on to beautiful Washington State. This required driving…
A Tale of Three Parks
Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton are three of the most popular national parks in the U.S. And we got to visit all of them in the course of just over a week. Glacier National Park The week before we left Libby, we did one more trip over to Glacier. Labor Day weekend there had been…
Lovable Little Libby
When I published my first Libby blog post, we’d just been beset by smoke from the West Coast wildfires. The smoke ended up lasting a full week, during which time we were unable to do much in Libby. For most of that week, the air quality was classified as “hazardous” and later “very unhealthy.” That…
Libby: We’re Home
It is a weird morning here in Libby. Smoke from the wildfires in Washington and Oregon has blanketed the area and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality has classified the air as hazardous. Looking out the bedroom window is eerie. Normally we have a view of the mountains (over the Sears), but the smoke/fog is…
On The Road Again (Literally)
Normally when I say we’re heading back out on the road, we spend very little time on roads. We fly to our main destinations, take trains and metros to get around, and use our feet for most of our daily travel. But this time, our revised Leg 6, so different from the Leg 6 I’d…
FAQ – What Did We Learn on Leg 5
To say Leg 5 was educational is an understatement. We faced a global pandemic and chose to get “stuck” in a foreign country. Obviously we learned a lot. Funny enough, I wrote in my “What Did We Learn on Leg 4” post that we weren’t learning so much about travel life anymore, but more about…