Twas the night before Christmas, and around 10 pm, I lay in my bed deliberating over where I wanted to take a vacation. I’d already exhausted most of my other methods of finding a vacation spot— namely Instagram and travel articles— and was quickly running out of time to make a decision. My vacation would take place starting December 26, so I needed to get packed and make plans, and celebrate Christmas beforehand. At some point I just started naming countries…
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24 Hours in North Dakota /
“What if North Dakota is better than South Dakota?” I pondered. “What if this whole idea that North Dakota is a grey, flat, wasteland is just an over-exaggeration? Maybe, people just don’t visit North Dakota because they forget even exists.”
Read More24 Hours in Yosemite National Park /
On a dreary Autumn night, I boarded the train to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. To be perfectly honest, I hadn’t even planned on going to Yosemite Valley. Instead, I convinced myself I’d be flying off to the Grand Tetons by way of Jackson Hole, or alternatively, to Teddy Roosevelt National Park via Bismarck, North Dakota. As a plan C, we could always go to Memphis and hit up the Rendezvous. And that’s exactly the way I thought, until I ended up in Yosemite on “Free Park Day” two years in a row.
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