As some of you may know, I’ve been working remote since March 2020 and in 2021 I seized the opportunity to spend four months in South Carolina. My boyfriend and I packed up the car with the dog and cat and Airbnb’d it until summer returned to Minnesota. We traveled so much in 2021 that […]
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Kauapea Beach or Secret Beach is located on the North Shore of the island of Kauai in Hawaii. There’s a parking lot at the trailhead and it’s a short, steep hike to get down to the beach. I guess it’s not-so-secret when the trailhead is on Google Maps. The beach itself was beautiful, clean, huge […]
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Queen’s Bath is a tide pool located on the north shore of the island of Kauai in Hawaii. There is a small parking lot at the trailhead and it’s a short but steep hike down to the shore. A sign at the base of the trail warns visitors of how dangerous the rocks can be. […]
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Up until recently, Hawaii has always seemed like a wildest-dreams type of destination, one that you talk about but that doesn’t quite seem attainable. But since I’ve now reached the finically stable years of my thirties and by some miracle Delta Airlines offers direct flights from Minneapolis to Honolulu—suddenly it became a real possibility. So […]
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As I sit down to reminisce about the past year, I can’t help but have a mini-out-of-body experience. Like many people these days, I feel like the past few years have melded together into one long, never-ending timeline. But I also look back at all the things I was able to accomplish in 2021 and […]
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Wow. The last few months of 2021 really got away from me. I feel like I spent all of 2020 and most of 2021 filling my time with activities while we waited for the world to get back to normal. While I know this thing is still far from over, that last few months of […]
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Last weekend, I found myself in North Carolina for the first time. One of my boyfriend’s friends was getting married near Chapel Hill and after a weekend of festivities our flight back to Minnesota wasn’t until Sunday night so we had some time to waste. Let me take you on a little photo journey from […]
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This post is going to be a quick overview of Wild River State Park. It’s located along the St. Croix river about an hour north of Minneapolis. We visited for a little Saturday morning hiking but it also has campgrounds, cabins, horseback riding trails, canoeing and cross-country skiing in the winter. The leaves were just […]
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Over Labor Day weekend, my boyfriend Glenn and I took a trip out to Sedona, Arizona for some end-of-summer adventuring. We stayed in West Sedona, which is less than a 10 minute drive from Uptown and the main street but it’s much quieter and easier to access on a busy holiday weekend. Don’t let these […]
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This past weekend, I visited St. Louis, Missouri for a wedding. I’ve been to St. Louis once before over 10 years ago while traveling for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament as a college cheerleader. This time I was able to spend a few days taking in the sites with my boyfriend Glenn who used to […]
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