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Cumberland Island: Camping in Canopied Sites with Wild Horses

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For our wedding anniversary this year, we decided to keep it simple. Instead of taking one of our typical months-long road trips, we just drove an hour and a half north into Georgia to visit a little patch of Google Maps greenery that we’ve had…

  • Post published:November 18, 2022
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New River Gorge National Park: Plan Your West Virginia Trip

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Driving the highways in West Virginia, you don’t really notice just how high up you are in the Appalachian Mountains until you cross a bridge and can’t see all the way down. That’s when you realize its nickname — the Mountain State — makes a…

  • Post published:July 18, 2021
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Hike & Bike the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway

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For years, we made the uneventful, 2.5-hour drive from Gainesville to Tampa. And for years, about an hour into that drive, we’ve been stumped by a curious overpass just south of Ocala on Interstate 75. If you’ve ever looked up as you’ve neared exit 341,…

  • Post published:January 29, 2021
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Free Things to Do in Wyoming Off the Beaten Path

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Wyoming is best known for Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Tetons, and Devil's Tower, but there are a few other outdoor attractions that offer some pretty unique experiences off the beaten path. On a recent drive through north central Wyoming, we discovered three of them…

  • Post published:November 22, 2020
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Custer State Park: See South Dakota Wildlife & Hike the Needles

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Just southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota, lies a unique combination of outdoor splendor. Looking for massive herds of bison? Active prairie dog colonies? Rock-studded lakes? Jagged hills reaching toward the heavens? We experienced all this and more during our trip to Custer State Park.…

  • Post published:October 20, 2020
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Indiana’s Brown County State Park is a Fall Foliage Wonderland

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Before this week, we'd barely done any autumn traveling at all. With Steven's history as a high school teacher and private tutor, fall semester has always been a time that we've focused on buckling down, working hard, and banking money. But all that past saving…

  • Post published:October 14, 2020
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Beat the Honolulu Crowds at Hanauma Bay and Diamond Head

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While we were living on the Big Island of Hawai’i, some family came to visit us. They flew to O’ahu for a week, and we met them there for part of their stay. (They also ended up island-hopping to the Big Island to check out…

  • Post published:July 19, 2020
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Washington Oaks Gardens: A Tranquil, Coastal Florida State Park

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Tucked away off of Florida’s A1A highway on the quiet outskirts of Palm Coast is a hidden gem: Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. We discovered it recently as part of our quest to see more of our own backyard. Less than two hours from our…

  • Post published:May 20, 2020
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Find Florida’s Only Rapids at Big Shoals State Park

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Yes, you read that headline correctly. You can find Class III Whitewater rapids in Florida. Most rivers in the Sunshine State are calm enough to float casually down them in an inner tube (beverage of choice in hand). But when the water levels of the…

  • Post published:March 15, 2020
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Definitive List of National Parks in the US, Ranked Best to Worst

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We spent most of 2019 living out of a tiny camper van in order to visit and photograph every National Park in the United States before turning 30. As we traveled, we evaluated each park against all the previous ones, forming this master list one…

  • Post published:February 11, 2020
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White Sands: New Mexico’s Newest National Park

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When we achieved our goal to visit every National Park in the United States in 2019, there were 61 of them. But just last month, long after we’d already arrived back home, a 62nd was added to the list. This would have irked us a…

  • Post published:January 12, 2020
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 6: There’s No Place Like Home

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We were rounding the third base of our trip as we made our way through Canada to Maine, and we were excited to visit the eastern part of the country we left behind six months before. Our plan seemed perfect -- we had plenty of…

  • Post published:December 9, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 5: Seeking Alaska

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I was both nervous and excited as we packed ourselves into the smallest plane I’d ever seen. It would be the first of many flights we’d have to take to visit the eight National Parks in Alaska. But we felt confident that if we could…

  • Post published:October 21, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 4: The Allure of the Pacific Northwest

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The Pacific Northwest is one of the most captivating parts of the country, the way it’s shrouded and shaped by perpetual fog, rainfall, and aspiration. We came here expecting to be dazzled, and it did not disappoint. It felt like returning home -- both because…

  • Post published:September 14, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 3: Finding Solace on Newly Thawed Land

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Somehow, winter was still going strong, but so was our spirit. We were two months into our vacation, and we weren't even halfway through the parks yet. But from what we'd seen so far — underground caverns, raging oceans, curious trees, and sculpted rockface —…

  • Post published:August 10, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 2: What to Do When It’s Freezing Outside

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When we came back from our tropical trip to the National Parks in Hawai'i and American Samoa, we came face to face with a bitter winter. The inescapable cold was something we -- born and bred Floridians -- were unfamiliar with and not at all…

  • Post published:June 16, 2019
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Visiting Every US National Park, Part 1: Traveling During the Government Shutdown

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We left Florida bright eyed and ready for our latest adventure — visiting every US National Park on a seven-month, cross-country road trip. The route we planned would take us west first along the southern border through Texas to California, avoiding the cold, January weather.…

  • Post published:May 26, 2019
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