Ennis Oregon Trail: Nebraska to Idaho

Leg 3 – Sidney, Nebraska to Victor, Idaho Miles: 585Hours: 11Things of Interest: Target, Grand Tetons, Starwatching    Second looooong day of driving just to get through Wyoming to our destination of Victor, Idaho.    I honestly don’t know that I have anything exciting to even write about — we fell asleep really early last night, […]

Ennis Oregon Trail: Illinois to Nebraska

Leg 2 – Small town IL to Sidney, Nebraska   Miles: 760 Total travel hours: 13.5 Things of Interest: Pony Express Station, Boot Hill Cemetery, Cricket the Cat 5:30am alarm. Did you know there is a 5am? I knew about the pm one…. The first two days we intentionally scheduled driving days to get as […]

Ennis Oregon Trail: Indiana to Illinois

Leg 1 – Indianapolis to small town ILMiles: 220Hours: 3.5Points of Interest: Mom’s house x2, grocery store for snacks We’ve successfully consolidated our belongings into way too many bags and boxes and stuffed them into the wagon.  Must importantly, the snacks:

Ennis Oregon Trail: Pre-Game

When you are part of the Oregon Trail Generation and decide to relive the thrill… we are moving to the West Coast!    Why you ask? We have struggled transitioning back to the Midwest after being in Wales for three years — missing the mountains and water and overall feeling. So we’ve been searching for […]

Christmas in the Netherlands

We visited Amsterdam a couple of years ago during the summer and really hit all the main touristy sites — Anne Frank House, the windmills, the red light district, etc — you can find that trip here: We Finally Made it to Amsterdam!Day 2: Birthday in Amsterdam This time we ended up in Amsterdam mostly […]

Madrid, oh Madrid

By the time we arrive to Madrid, we are exhausted. Well mostly our feet are exhausted. So it is a little unfair to Madrid that we did not give it our full attention and a proper wander about. Instead, we slowly wandered around the city to a couple of the points we wanted to see […]

A day of religion

While it’s not secret that neither myself nor Mr Ennis are particularly religious, we do really appreciate the multitude of global religions and often visit places of worship all over the world. Toledo has a fascinating (yet dark) history like many in Europe, yet a unique fact about Toledo is that it is known as […]

Goodbye Barcelona, Hello Toledo

A three hour train journey and we have headed west to Toledo — which is a town south of Madrid known for it’s Alcazar (castle) and Cathedral to a typical tourist.  This town is often a quick day trip for people visiting Madrid, but in true Ennis fashion, that is not how we roll. We […]

Let’s Talk About Gaudi

Holy Gaudi in Barcelona. If you don’t know Antoni Gaudi was a famous architect born in the mid 1800s and his work is extremely recognisable and unique.  He spent a good portion of his life in Barcelona so the majority of his work is here including some that he started and is still being completed. […]