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Volcanic Debris, Nuclear Reactors, Trains, and Rockets
When we first started making plans for our trip, we had a map showing the locations and names of all the National Parks. After dinner one night, Syd was looking at it and pointed to Craters of the Moon in Idaho and asked “what’s this all about?” Jessie had been as a child, and said…
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Yellowstone
We’ve just finished seven nights of camping and it was absolutely amazing! After a two-day stop in Rapid City, SD, to do laundry and see Mount Rushmore, we headed out. The first day, we drove through Custer State Park in SD. We hiked the Lovers Leap Loop, which was around four miles. Sydney was particularly…
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North Dakota
About a week ago we went to the North Dakota heritage museum in Bismarck. We saw many amazing things and learned quite a bit about North Dakota. We learned how scientists can use fossilized dinosaur poop to figure out more about the dinos that lived here and the land they lived on, we traveled past…
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The Dakotas – Syd
Last week we went to the North Dakota heritage museum. After the dinosaurs there were some very interesting creatures called ground sloths. Ground sloths immigrated here to north America from south America. Their scientific name comes from their third and biggest claw. Although modern sloths are small ground sloths were the size of a modern…
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Westward the Wagons
Our six weeks of family time and summer vacation are over and now we’re pointed west for our American road trip. We’ve left Minnesota and are currently in North Dakota. The children were upset to be leaving our family: six weeks of grandparents pushing ice-cream at every turn being replaced with parents telling you to…
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The Journey To Belgium via Amsterdam and Delft
I’ll pretty much go to any museum or heritage site. I’m also the type of person who wants to read every sign so I go slowly. My kids are starting to react with suspicion anytime I suggest a museum, and the phrase “UNESCO Heritage site” is greeted with at best eye rolls. After the night…
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The Miller’s Tale
We were in the final two hundred meters of a hike from Dornbirn to Hohenems when we saw, in what appeared to be someone’s front yard, a water-wheel-powered saw-mill and a water-wheel-powered flour mill. On closer inspection we found that it was the former site of a mill and the reproduction mills had been built…
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Europe!
We’re back from our three week European trip and I have several posts to put up. I barely pulled out my computer the entire time; we were with extended family and the weather was largely cooperative so there was lots to do. In the evenings we sat on the balcony and drank wine and chatted.…
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Mama’s New Hobby
In January, I was having a rough time. I had just canceled my work trip because Marcus brought COVID back from his work trip to Malaysia, and we were both pretty exhausted from work, kids and chores, not to mention studying Spanish and planning for a year of travel with no income. Marcus took conference…
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Family Visits At The Lake
Dear Readers, July 9, 2023 It has been a crazy week here in Minnesota. We arrived here last Sunday and went to a lake house with our grandma and cousins. We were also joined during the day by our grandpa, our great aunt, and her two grandsons. We spent a lot of time in…
