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california

Our first night in California was an interesting one. At 9:00 PM I got a call from the campground to let us know that we were under a mudslide evacuation warning. Um... what? Luckily we were only staying there for one night on our way down to San Francisco

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oregon

After traveling 2,225 miles over the last month, we finally made it to Oregon! Our first day in Oregon ended with Olivia losing a tooth. Our second day in Oregon ended with Olivia losing another tooth. The girls were super excited about getting to Oregon to see their cousins.

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throwback thursday (august 10, 2022)

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washington

Another day. Another new state. We had only planned a quick stop in Washington during our drive from Idaho to Oregon to visit the Riverfront Park in Spokane. Since we ended up spending a couple extra days in Idaho we decided to take a day trip to Spokane (only a

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idaho

A new state for all four of us - Idaho! Our last monarch butterfly emerged two days ago. Fun fact for Austin - the official state insect of Idaho is the monarch butterfly. So it made sense to release our last butterfly here. When we left Montana the fires were

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something old, something new

Our second trip to Glacier we did some things that we did back in 2018, sprinkled in with some new things. Plus we saw a bunch of cool animals... On our way back to the bus last night we asked the girls which they liked better - Glacier or Yellowstone.

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glacier

Glacier National Park was not one of our stops when we were planning our roadtrip this summer. We visited in 2018, but during our trip the west part of the park was closed because 11,000+ acres were on fire. Last week our plans changed a little bit and we

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friends in montana

We've been going non-stop since we left home, so it was nice to visit our friends for a couple days with no plans except to hang out and relax. Olivia swapped out her hiking shoes for her fancy shoes for the occasion. Our home for the next couple

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last day in yellowstone

Today was our final day in Yellowstone. Top thing on our list was to take the short hike to the Grand Prismatic Spring overlook. We checked out the spring on our first day, but never made it up to the overlook. It's way cooler from up high. The