Hello, Friends Well, hello, readers.  If any of you are still out there. Our trip “ended,” at least it virtually ended, back in October of 2011.  October of 2011?!  That was a virtual century [...]

We are so excited to be hosting the 14th edition of the Gen Y Travel Carnival.  Thanks must go out to Emily over at The Maiden Voyage for selecting us to host this month’s [...]

As we left Niagara Falls for New England we had a renewed feeling of freshness and adventure.  After over two months on the road, and the vast majority of that time being spent in [...]

We’ve spent most of our trip sans tripod, our little piece-of-crap one broke a week in, but we finally forked out some cash and bought a new one and were rewarded with the perfect [...]

Dear sweet, deep-fried, everything-on-a-stick, artery clogging Minnesota State Fair, First of all, we have to say, you lived up to all of our expectations, and more! We had not planned to visit you; actually, [...]

Ok, well, perhaps not the automobiles part, but our trip to Yellowstone National Park was certainly filled with thrills of the geothermal variety.  Geysers, hot springs, bubbling paint pots of greyish mud and travertine [...]

We’d only been there a few days but we were already fully embracing the Montucky (what our Montana friends call their home) living.  Camping on side streets, drinking beer from Mason jars (seems to [...]

We were very excited to return to the States for a couple of reasons: lower gas prices, use of our cell phones and wireless hot spot, and a reduction in the 12%+ sales tax [...]

It would have been a sin to go to Banff National Park and not see Lake Louise so we leashed up the dogs and hiked the two (ish) miles up to the lake from [...]

Truth be told, all the reports about grizzly attacks in Yellowstone this summer had us on edge.  Then we ran into a momma black bear with her cubs on a very populated hike and [...]