This is Part 3 of my North and South Dakota road trip. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here. After seeing the Black Hills, Felix and I stayed the night in Wall, SD, which is right outside of Badlands National… Continue reading

This post is Part 2 of my North and South Dakota road trip. Read Part 1 here. Felix and I stayed overnight in a tiny town near the north edge of South Dakota. The next morning we drove south towards… Continue reading

This summer I was pretty occupied with studying for the PE exam (an important thing for my engineering career) but now I’ve passed (hooray!) and am getting back to my National Parks journey. This time it’s bringing Felix and I… Continue reading

Continuing my post-Christmas Texas/New Mexico park extravaganza, Felix and I headed to Guadalupe Mountains National Park. This park is in Texas right on the border to New Mexico. Also, this park is in Mountain Time but it’s right on the… Continue reading

The week of Christmas, I headed to California to spend the holidays with my family (as I typically do). Felix, my parents, and my brother spent some time in San Francisco prior to Christmas. I finally got taken for a… Continue reading

Felix and I decided that for our vacation this year, we’d visit some friends and some parks in the mid Atlantic area. We flew out late on a Friday night to Raleigh, North Carolina, stayed overnight, and rented a car.… Continue reading

Continuing my goal of visiting all the US National Parks, Felix and I decided to fly to Cleveland for Labor Day weekend and see Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Cuyahoga NP is located between Cleveland and Akron so it’s easy to get… Continue reading

After the Cheerleading Worlds, Felix and I boarded a flight to the US Virgin Islands to continue my national parks quest. We flew into Saint Thomas, and interestingly the plane did the thing where it almost touched down on the… Continue reading

Continuing on our Christmas road trip (see part 1), Felix and I drove from Tucson, AZ towards Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. Since we had to spend most of the day driving (it was a 5 hour drive), and… Continue reading

Christmas with my family was to be held in Morro Bay this year, and of course, I wanted to hit up some national parks along the way.  On Friday morning, Felix and I boarded and early plane to Phoenix, AZ.… Continue reading