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I didn’t quite realize, but these next few weeks are going to be crazy busy for me!

From time to time, I interrupt my posts about traveling and exploration to discuss my state of mind. This is one of those posts.

Brandy and I got back from our latest trip to Crested Butte on Saturday, June 18. We didn’t do a LOT between then and this past weekend, but just a quick recap…

Here we go again. Another two months of chaos and, as hard as I’m trying to keep my posts up, it’s just not happening.

If you recall, we had a whirlwind of a summer last year, including several trips to Des Moines, a trip through Wyoming to Grand Teton National Park, then on to Boise, and back, we had a roommate for a couple of months that summer then drove her out to western Iowa to see her off […]

Yep, I’m going back to Chicago

I’m not sure why I used that as the title of this post. There will be no more post-renovation life. There will only be activities outside of renovations.

Sunday, Brandy, Ash and I went to Palisades-Kepler State Park in Mount Vernon, just outside of Cedar Rapids. We went in with hopes that we’d be able to capture the magic of the previous weekend at Backbone State Park. We soon discovered that a week can make a big difference.