Category: Journal
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Where the Rivers Disappear: An Unexpected Journey to Mammoth Cave National Park
Read The Story →: Where the Rivers Disappear: An Unexpected Journey to Mammoth Cave National ParkThis was a lark, a tune-up, a one-off. Knowing we had a long weekend from school and a massive roadtrip to the Dakotas as soon as summer arrived, we took the opportunity to do a practice roadtrip to a park we had yet to visit. For something we were calling a lark, Allison did a…
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Chasing Light Across Utah: A Utah Mighty 5 Roadtrip
Read The Story →: Chasing Light Across Utah: A Utah Mighty 5 Roadtrip5 Parks, 1,513 Miles, and 15.6 oz of Wild Berry Skittles It felt like we had been planning this trip for months; reader: we had been. When the question of where to go for spring break came up, it was pre-Trail+Hearth. We ruled out Florida, because, well, Florida. We’d done Miami the year before for…
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Olympic National Park: Ten Days Where the Rainforest Meets the Sea
Read The Story →: Olympic National Park: Ten Days Where the Rainforest Meets the SeaSomewhere on I-5, watching the suburbs of Tacoma give way to actual trees, it occurred to me that we’d been talking about this trip for four years. Olympic National Park- rainforests, wild coastline, mountains- had been sitting on the list through a move, a pandemic, and the general chaos of early parenthood. In the summer…