The problem with having a blog is keeping up the blog! We've been slacking on writing on here for awhile so I'll summarize what we've been doing. It's hard to remember details, seems like we've been doing a lot!

We met my cousin Pat in Augusta and had a great time. Pat if you're reading this, thanks again. It was really great to experience life on a ranch and learn about all my family out in Montana. I think Mike was pretty inspired, wouldn't be surprised if he started ranching!

The night after we left Augusta we found a weird and cool little hot spring near Mammoth ski hill called Elkhorn. They had just opened for the season the day we got there, great timing for us! We hung out and camped in the parking lot, hit the hot springs and had a really great time! It was a bit run down, definitely no Fairmont but felt pretty luxurious to us. Little things definitely go a long way when you're living on the road!

We both thought Idaho was amazing and very underrated. It had a lot of great drives through the mountains, tonnes of places to park and ski backcountry, just a lot of recreation areas (not that we did any of them! haha I guess we were there at the wrong time of year). We checked out Craters of the Moon National Monument. We thought the name sounded cool, which was the driving force behind us going there. It definitely wasn't what we were expecting - I don't know, when I heard the name "Craters of the Moon" I was expecting to see a bunch of craters or holes in the ground?! Instead it was a massive lava field... very moon-y? Haha who knows! It was an interesting spot to say the least. We toured around and spent the night camping in a giant wasteland of lava - pretty neat.

We're now in Oregon and we made it out to the coast! Oregon is one of my favourite places, the trees are huge here and everything is really lush! We camped out near the beach for 2 nights and had a blast. We're now in Hood River for the weekend and heading to a wedding tomorrow night. This town is super cute and there are a tonne of brewpubs and wine bars that we're excited to check out! Our hotel faces the Columbia River and we've got an amazing few of the river and Washington state.

Anyhow it's nice to be stationed here for the next few days and have nice showers, do laundry and eat in a restaurant... pretty much be humans again! We'll make sure to take tonnes of pictures while we're here.

Love and miss you all!

Lizzy