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Monthly Archives: July 2018

Avoiding Thunderstorms and Exploring Caves in Mammoth Cave National Park.

On July 20th, we finished up in St. Louis and headed to our next destination: Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the last National Park in a vacation that included Rocky Mountain National Park, the Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier, Banff, and the Badlands. McKenna got herself ready. We crossed through Illinois and Indiana and reached Kentucky in…

July 24, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

Animals and Arches During a Stay in St. Louis

We had driven over 6,000 miles on our trip across the country, through Rocky Mountain National Park, the Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier, Banff, and the Badlands. Now we were moving back to east, starting with our stay in Billings and continuing to Sioux Falls. There we did laundry in a local laundromat for what we hoped…

July 23, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

From Devil’s Tower to Mount Rushmore to the Badlands National Park in 24 Hours

On July 15th, we left the Rockies to start back east. Along the way, the plan was to visit Mount Rushmore and stop in the Badlands. But first, we made the very long drive from Banff in Canada to our hotel in Billings, Montana. Then we crossed from Montana to Wyoming to get to Devil’s…

July 21, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

The Bluest of Blue Glacial Lakes of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies

On July 13th, we headed north through Montana’s Tobacco Valley toward Canada. By this time, we had gone over 4,500 miles, and we were on our way to Canada’s Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. After a few hours, we made it to the border, where an angry Canadian mob levied retaliatory tariffs on…

July 19, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

Glacier National Park, or “How McKenna Came to Love Hiking”

On July 9th, we went out of the western entrance of Yellowstone and headed into Idaho to see parts of that state on our way ultimately to Glacier National Park in Montana, where we would be camping for two nights. We managed to take the longest possible route from Yellowstone to our lodge on the…

July 18, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

Bison, Blue Water, and Bears in Yellowstone National Park

Following our canoeing at Signal Peak in Grand Teton National Park, we drove north to Yellowstone, where Laura had lived for three years, working as a waitress at the Lake Hotel Restaurant, which was one of the places we would be visiting during our stay there. According to Laura, July is always an incredibly busy…

July 15, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

From Jackson Hole to Grand Teton National Park During the Fourth of July

On July 3rd, we left Rocky Mountain National Park to drive north to Jackson Hole, en route to Grand Teton National Park. Since we had left the Detroit area, we had driven about 2,500 miles, and this drive to the north would involve about an 8 1/2 hour drive. For us, though, the drive was…

July 10, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

Crossing the Country and Camping in Rocky Mountain National Park

On July 1st, we left our campsite on the Arkansas River in Colorado and headed north to Rocky Mountain National Park. I had visited the park twice before but not with Laura and McKenna. We took the scenic route to the park, entering through the southern entrance. The southern entrance to the park took us…

July 6, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

Road Tripping from Michigan to Colorado

Having crossed the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, we headed south through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa to our next hotel, in Omaha, Nebraska. The next leg of our road trip would be through Colorado. McKenna was well prepared for this portion of the trip. The next day, we headed across Nebraska, a state that lived up…

July 4, 2018 in Traveling Adventures, Western United States.

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