Yellowstone

Yellowstone, the first national park in the world. Home to one of the largest high-altitude lakes in North America. Acres upon acres of half of the world’s smoking and bubbling geothermal features. This place is gurgling, erupting, steaming, and sprawling. By sprawling, I mean 3,468.4 square miles of land, animal, and ecological …

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The Badlands of South Dakota

“When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.” – Lakota Indian Proverb 18 days after leaving Richmond we officially made it to undisturbed nature and designated wilderness – 244,300 acres of it. It took until the day we left for the astonishment of our surroundings to wear …

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Gateway to the WEST

After Chattanooga we did some serious driving and hopped 2 time zones. We made a lot of quick stops with one long unfortunate stop in “Lake of the Ozarks” Missouri…the Redneck Riviera of Middle America. We are still doing a pretty good job of not-at-all following my meticulously planned itinerary …

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Tennessee, Ain’t No Place I’d Rather Be

We could not quite put our finger on Chattanooga. We didn’t really know what to expect but I think we were prepared to see more Wranglers and cowboy boots than we did. Chattanooga is actually super urban (don’t get me wrong, you drive 5 minutes outside the city and you find yourself …

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