This is my third travel recap of our road trip across the country to move to California. We started out camping in Custer State Park, South Dakota, drove through Wyoming, stopped off at my fiance’s parents’ house, then headed to southern Colorado to explore the Great Sand Dunes and Mesa Verde.

After a morning spent hiking in the Great Sand Dunes, we said goodbye to E’s parents and set off on the (relatively) short four-hour drive from the Dunes to Mesa Verde National Park.… Read More »

I hope your week is off to a good start! E and I had another crazy last week: flying back from California, moving back into the college dorms for a few days, graduating, and driving to northern Minnesota for E’s family reunion. We’re currently enjoying a brief vacation lakeside before some grad celebrations with my family, and then flying back out to California because E starts work on Monday! Phew.

Anyhow, let’s just pretend we’re back on our road trip without a care in the world. Last week I shared our trip to Custer State Park, SD. From there, we drove to E’s parents’ house in CO, where we stayed for a few days before leaving for Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado.… Read More »

Hello and happy Monday! What a crazy weekend it has been: full of IKEA boxes, Target runs, and soaking in our first home together. I love our new apartment! Today, though, I want to start recapping our road trip and tell you all about stop #1: Custer State Park in South Dakota.

For those of you who are new here, E and I attended college in Minnesota and graduated in March. Afterwards, we lived at my mom’s house for a couple of months while preparing to move out to where E’s new job is. Since you only live once, we decided to make a cross-country road trip out of the move!… Read More »