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Jackson Hole, Wy
Posted on October 22, 2014 1 Comment

When I think of fun cities, my mind goes straight to places like Las Vegas and New Orleans. New York and LA if you’re a city mouse, perhaps Miami if you’re a beach bunny. But I have a new city to add to that list: Jackson Hole, Wy. This place is just So.Much.Fun! Prior to […]
Yellowstone National Park: Uncle Tom’s Trail and Artist Point
Posted on October 13, 2014 4 Comments

Just as we parked at the entrance to Uncle Tom’s Trail, we saw the first few drops of water hit our windshield, rapidly developing into pouring rain. No worries; we came prepared with ponchos that Maria had picked up back in Chicago! Uncle Tom’s Trail was developed in 1898 by “Uncle Tom” Richardson, an entrepreneur who took visitors […]
Yellowstone National Park: Grand Prismatic Spring
Posted on October 10, 2014 2 Comments

Have you ever seen a landscape so foreign that you feel like you’re on another planet? The Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone was just that otherworldly and mesmerizing! It’s what you could imagine the surface of Venus or Mars to be like, or given the presence of liquid pools, perhaps one of Saturn’s moons. In any […]
Yellowstone National Park: Old Faithful
Posted on October 6, 2014 6 Comments

Next up on our road trip was Jellystone Yellowstone National Park. Home to the majority of the world’s geysers, Yellowstone was established by President Grant on March 1, 1872 as our country’s first national park. This novel concept of a public park open to all spurred a movement to preserve and protect nature for future generations. […]
Daaaaa Dash!
Posted on September 29, 2014 Leave a Comment
Saturday morning, I ran my second official 5K! Tamara scored free registration for the both of us when her friends couldn’t make it last minute, and invited me along. And so, I found myself amidst hundreds of other mustachioed, aviator-clad runners at the Soldier Field Ditka Dash! It was a really fun time! In my […]