– Asheville, North Carolina to Laurel Falls – Today was our hiking day. We are staying in Asheville again tonight, so for today, we planned to drive out to the Dennis Cove Trailhead up near Hampton, Tennessee and hike a short section of the Appalachian Trail to Laurel Falls. Mark has visited before with his…

– Memphis, Tennessee to Asheville, North Carolina – Today was a very long day. We ended up trying to do a bit more than we should’ve in a single day, and it kept us going from 6am until after 10pm. The time changed, too, which didn’t help. We got up and went for a run…

– Denton, Texas to Memphis, Tennessee – As of today, we have visited 47 of the 59 US National Parks. We are visiting the last 3 parks in the continental US this summer: Smoky Mountains, Isle Royale, and Voyageurs. That will leave us with 9 parks in Hawaii, Alaska, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. We’re…

– Las Vegas, New Mexico to Denton, Texas – Today wasn’t a long day, and we make the drive from Tucumcari back to Denton pretty regularly, so I’ll keep this one short and sweet. We started our morning at 5am in Las Vegas. Everyone showered and packed and met for a lovely Best Western breakfast…

– Santa Fe, New Mexico to Las Vegas, New Mexico – Today began early, despite the time change overnight. We woke up at 6am, which felt pretty early. Everyone was a little dazed when the alarm went off. Still, we rallied, and we were all showered and breakfasted by 7:30 and on the road out…

– Santa Fe, New Mexico – We spent all of the day today in and around Santa Fe. Our morning began at 6:30am, although we did laze around in bed until nearly 7 before we finally got in gear and got dressed to go work out. Santa Fe has very nice running and biking trails. In…

– Denton, Texas to Santa Fe, New Mexico – This weekend, we gathered the old Alaska crew (Mark, Ripley, Kristy, Katy, Sonnie, and Sabre) and drove to Santa Fe to spend our “spring break.” The truth is, some of us had Monday off during spring break week, so we decided to take a long weekend in New…

– Corpus Christi, Texas to Denton, Texas – Today is it. This is the last day of Mark’s Texas courthouse photography project. We had three counties left, and a quick stop to make to pick up newspapers for Mark in Hallettsville. Since we had so many places to stop, we got up a little early…

– Corpus Christi, Texas – Corpus Christi is a town that we visit fairly often. We were last here in late June, 2014. Since we visit so frequently, we have a reasonably good idea of what we like to do here. We got up to run this morning at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, which is…

– San Antonio, Texas to Corpus Christi, Texas – It was a relatively quiet day today. We woke up at 7am and went down to the river in San Antonio for a run. There’s trail for miles along the river through the city, and it was very popular on such a pleasant Saturday. We didn’t see many…