Exploring North Dakota, The Midwest, and Beyond
The weather has always fascinated me. When I was a kid it also terrified me. I had one too many nightmares of dying in a tornado. Don’t ask me where I got that idea from as a four-year-old, but it is one of the first vivid nightmares I can remember […]
Did you know you can see the northern lights in North Dakota? It’s probably one of my favorite things about living in this frozen state. Well, that and how clear the night sky is during the winter months and a few other things. With the next solar cycle in full […]
2021 has proven to be as equally as wild of a year as 2020. Sadly, I don’t think international travel will open up for quite sometime so we need to start enjoying the amazing things right in our own backyards! And that’s not to say that I haven’t been enjoying […]
Many people, myself included sometimes, tend to think you have to get out of the midwest to have adventures. But that isn’t true! You can have some of the best adventures in the midwest! This summer as I can’t go jet setting around the world, I’m making it a goal […]
When I tell people that I’m from North Dakota, frequently their reaction is like the movie Fargo? Yup, you betcha! Many of them are disappointed to learn that the newer series was not actually filmed in North Dakota’s largest city. Their next question is usually do you guys really have […]
You can do a national park road trip anywhere in the country and almost anywhere around the world. However, the Dakotas are so unique and offer three hugely different landscapes making it the perfect place to do a national park road trip. This is the perfect trip to do over […]
Some of the best places to eat in Jamestown, North Dakota are, no surprise, the locally owned restaurants. Jamestown has its fair share of chain restaurants, but you can get food from Taco Bell or McDonald’s anywhere you go. Jamestown has a good mix of American and foreign favorites such […]
I have been sitting on these photos for the better part of a year struggling to edit them correctly in color. Then I remembered I love black and white photography. Theodore Roosevelt National Park in black and white is a simple photo series that doesn’t need many words. I’ll still […]
North Dakota’s winter weather is incredibly unique and unlike anywhere else I have been. We have extremely frigid days and more often than not our snow is powder. Read More: Surviving Winter in North Dakota The day I took these photos, the temps hovered in the -30 range and the wind chill […]
On October 10th, we got well over a foot of snow. No travel was advised. And winter had officially arrived. Until it melted. These photos are in black and white (I like black and white!) but all of the leaves on the trees were still green! Have you ever seen it […]
