When it comes to working out a Route 66 budget, many different things can affect the total cost. Are you flying in from overseas? How long will you be spending on the Route? Will you need a rental car? How much do you plan on eating? In this post, I share the budget breakdown from…
Six Flags Great America is located in Gurnee Illinois, around 40 minutes north of Chicago. In 2019 I visited the park twice…well 3 times if you count the day we drove 3 and a half hours from Iowa, just to find out it was closed. So my first Six Flags tip would be to check…
Located less that an hour from Chicago USA, along the bottom of Lake Michigan is the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. We stumbled across what used to be a real Speakeasy bar! I was staying at the Spring House Inn hotel and discovering Speakeasy At The Spa was an unexpected surprise!
I’ve been a huge fan of quad biking (ATVs) for a long time, going on ATV tours all around the world. While living in Iowa, we bought our own ATV so we could go trail riding! Here are some of the UTV and ATV parks in Iowa that we’ve been to!
In this post I share with you some of my favourite Wisconsin attractions that should be on your Wisconsin bucket list! Wisconsin is pretty well known for its love affair with cheese (and cheese curds) but as someone that hates the stuff, unfortunately you won’t find any cheese related things in this round up! But…
2021 saw the first ever MBL (Major League Baseball) game played in Iowa. Iowa doesn’t HAVE any MBL teams, BUT it does have the Field of Dreams, which is a pretty famous baseball diamond, made famous from the 1989 movie staring Kevin Costner. The movie site is located in Dyersville, 30 minutes away from Dubuque. ‘If…