A Cabin by the Pond – Carbondale, Illinois

Posted on March 30, 2008. Filed under: Vacation, second marriages | Tags: , , , , |

Rustic doesn’t begin to describe the cabin we rented for our honeymoon in Southern Illinois. Rob found it on the Internet and there were few pictures but it sounded good and was close to the Shawnee National Park. I know what you are thinking. What about a national park spells honeymoon? Where is the romance? [...]

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The People That You Meet - Garden of the Gods/Illinois

Posted on March 29, 2008. Filed under: Vacation, hiking | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Our second hike was through the Garden of the Gods. The mainstay of the park is a lame stone paved trail that takes one past the largest of the rock formations, a bluff area over looking a valley. Once part of a vast sea that millions of years ago covered the state, today it plays [...]

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The Little Grand Canyon - Illinois

Posted on March 28, 2008. Filed under: Vacation, hiking, remarriage, second marriages | Tags: , , , |

Our first hike of the honeymoon was to be a loop in Shawnee National Forest that would take us through the Little Grand Canyon. Not, according to my husband, very aptly named. He was right. Grand Canyon mini-miniature might have been more accurate, but to be fair, once we made it down from the Big [...]

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