– Dodge City, Kansas to Denton, Texas – I hope you like windmills. Our windmill photos have windmill photos that they took with their windmill friends while out watching windmills. In all seriousness, the Great Plains are full of wind mills and wind turbines. Welcome to this blog post about their homeland. Today we went…

– Valentine, Nebraska to Dodge City, Kansas – This trip is really winding down. Today we made it to two national park sites, though we were aiming for three. We missed a fort that would’ve been a little off the shortest path because we spent way too much time this morning driving around Niobrara National…

– Minot, North Dakota to Valentine, Nebraska – Well, we didn’t get to run this morning. It was thunderstorming when we woke up, so we went back to bed for another hour and a half instead. I guess that’s fine. The trail we’d picked out for this morning would’ve been okay, but not one of…

– Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to Minot, North Dakota – We are back in the U.S. tonight. I’m not sure I’m excited, though, see that it’s getting hotter and hotter the further south we go, and I do miss the mountains, but I will be glad to be home in a few days. This trip will be…

– Jasper, Alberta to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Well, today was mostly a driving day. It was beautiful, too, since we didn’t have time tor really get out and enjoy it. Unlike yesterday, the clouds were burning off, the morning was clear, and it wasn’t raining. We could see the mountains as soon as we got…

– Jasper National Park – Well, we had fun today, but it was a bit of a bust in some ways. For the whole trip, despite some cooler temperatures and a smattering of rain (and snow!), we’ve been very lucky weather-wise. Our luck ran out today. It rain pretty much all day, right up until…

– Jasper National Park – Today was our Jasper hiking day. We walked ourselves into exhaustion. Okay, maybe not quite that bad, but I am pretty tired. We really did do a lot of stuff today, and we definitely had a lot of fun. Even Ripley is worn out, and that’s not an easy feat…

– Jasper National Park – We had a nice, mostly relaxing day today. Our alarm went off at 5am, but we lounged until 5:30 before we got out of bed and got dressed to go run. Our run was along the main stretch of town, and it was entirely empty for most of our run….

– Revelstoke, BC to Jasper, Alberta – Today, we basically did a reverse of yesterday, with a few additions. We started our morning in Revelstoke with a nice run along a levy. It was relatively warm, which shouldn’t be surprising, considering how warm it was during the day yesterday. Our run was pleasant and flat,…

– Banff, Alberta to Revelstoke, BC – Today was our big park day. Once we left Banff, we saw three more national parks before the day was done. It was a long day, even though the drive was only about 3.5 hours or so. Three parks is a lot to see in a day, and…