In Pursuit of a Hike

Finally, I am back to writing about what I love to write about most - the outdoors! It seems like so long since we have been out hiking. We went out once in June to a new trail in Mark Twain forest, but were incredibly disappointed when we found the trail to be too overgrown to hike. But this weekend, Missouri had weather that you just don't pass up for hiking. Ahead of rain and storms, we were treated with some upper 60 and lower 70 degree weather and oh. my. goodness. We have not had our air conditioner on for days and instead are enjoying the breeze that our attic fan pulls through the house. Knowing that cooler weather was heading our way, we started discussing where to hike earlier in the week and scouted out this spot close to Rock Bridge State Park. As it turns out, this is actually one of the last trailheads in the Rockbridge trail system that we have yet to hike. That's right. We are officially running out of new trails to hike in this area. So on a very mild Satu...

I am so happy to be writing this post. I'm happy because I've been sitting on several blog posts that I've wanted to finish but have been just so incredibly busy with end of school events for both the boys and me. I'm especially happy to be writing this post in particular because it means that we are finally all done with the school year. My classroom is packed up and cleaned out. Lex and Eli finished 1st grade and kindergarten respectively. And we are ready to hit summer hard.  I've been too busy to write, but we haven't been too busy to hike. We've actually been to some really cool places. We recently revisited  Gans Creek Trails , a part of  Rock Bridge State Park .  We've hiked here several times before. We went on a winter hike here in 2016 and also went in at a different trail head and had an amazing hike in which we completed one of the loops. We've completed several of the loops on this trail system and always love the views.  So in ...