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 […]

Historic Maquon

When planning our trip back, we knew that Sunday we would be traveling to see Kevin’s family, and his mom chose to have us all meet at grandpa’s house for an early birthday party.  Maquon is an extremely small town, and when I asked Kevin if he knew where his grandpa moved to, he said […]

Home Sweet Home

Today we kick off our long trek home to see friends, family and coworkers.  Three cities in eight days will makes for a packed in week, but we cannot wait to see everyone.  Our flight from London was surprisingly empty — good for us because we ended up with an empty seat in our row! […]