our epoch… one year, 48 state adventure
join us on our adventure as we visit all of the lower 48 states in one year!
Week 9 of our 48 state, 52 week adventure found us in the great state of North Dakota! This was a place that I had never really had any real desire to go and had only really heard of Fargo because of the movie. Which I never saw… What a surprise to find such amazing places like Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Medora and Lake Sakakwea! Here are the Top 5 Memories from North Dakota!
Week 8 of our 48 state, 52 week adventure found us in the great state of Montana! We got to take in the wonder of Glacier National Park, the amazing waters of Flathead Lake and Lake McDonald and live a bit of history at Little Bighorn and Last Stand Hill. But the best part was meeting up with some great people for a day of boating, tubing and swinging.
Our week in the state of Washington was amazing and exhausting. Mt. Rainier. Mt. St. Helens. Olympia. Olympic National Park. And finally, Spokane. So many beautiful sites and so many miles of lush, green amazingness, a few whale tails and then, as we headed east, the familiar mountain desert that reminded us of home in Colorado. What a unexpectedly beautiful and memorable trip!
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Oregon was one of the states that none of us had been to, but all of us had high hopes and expectations for. There is no doubt that this state is amazing… We just were unable to view it as we had hope we could. There were wildfires burning up the southern half of the state. Our tires suddenly decided not to be tires and the coast decided it didn’t want to let the sun kiss our skin. Despite our sob story, we had a great time and now know that there is even more beauty to behold when we get a chance to come back in the future.
We dropped down from Lake Tahoe into Sacrament for the first leg of our stay in California. From their, the state made it to the top of Izabella’s list. Mainly because of our trips to the ocean. She has always been a lover of water. Drinking or otherwise. Kari used to call her our water baby. But she also loved Redwood National Park. Along the way, we saw tide pools, did some boogie boarding and pigged out a sweet burger joint.
It sounds strange, but we were excited to escape to Nevada to get away from the heat. Back in Hurricane, Utah, we saw temps around 120 degrees! So heading northwest to the sub-100 degree heat near Great Basin National Park was a treat! Plus, who can argue with the beauty of Great Basin National Park, the Lehman Caves and Lake Tahoe?!? Not us!
Week 3 was definitely a treat as we made our way south from Idaho into Utah. It was a bit of a haul going from Clayton, Idaho to Salt Lake City Utah – but along the way we had some fun surprises that made it a bit more bearable!
Week 2 started with a LONG, HOT drive from Wyoming to Boise Idaho. One thing to remember for any rookies like us out there, letting GPS estimate your time of arrival can be very deceiving. If your top speed is 70, but GPS calculates on a speed limit of 80, you get a bit of a discrepancy…