Amana Colonies & LeClair, Iowa

I wanted to share our new Wander-Inn adventuring with my daughter, Alyssa.  We decided on a trip north/east to the Amana Colonies.  My brief visit earlier in the summer was calling me back.  The down side of this trip was it was a long road trip with too much to see for the short time we had available. 

Still on the road at sunset, accented by bug schmear

Our campsite. The canopy blew over (and away) at night and we couldn't fold the
side tent back up. We were pretty lame campers!

We must be elegant!  Wander-Inn's theme colors and the amazing
Princess WinterSpringSummerFall aka "Winnie"

The very entertaining owner of this quaint little coffee shop in Le Clair, IA.
Sad that I don't have more photos of Le Clair from this trip.

Flowers in the Amana Colonies

Interestingly there are a lot of wineries or tasting rooms
in the Amana Colonies. Nice!

Some of our favorites for around the campfire.

We built the fire, but I pooped out before wine time.  

Wander-Inn Stats:

Adventure Dates: August 21-23, 2015
Trip Miles: 1059
Trip Nights 2

Total Miles: 9650
Total Nights: 18

Cumberland Falls

Cumberland Falls is in the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeastern Kentucky. It's known for it's "moonbow" which I'd love to go back and see sometime.

I'm being followed by a moon shadow...

Cumberland Falls 

The trail to the falls was pretty and interesting, too.

Big Rocks! Look at the people below them.

Not for the claustrophobic!

Beautiful trail and nicely kept up!

The falls are less impressive in photos than in person. For scale, look at the following third photo and find that person in the second photo. 

Cumberland Falls

See the man on the other side?

There he is, sitting cross legged on his raft. 

Our campground was not much to write home about, but the area was beautiful and the falls quite impressive. 

No grass at all, all gravel camp sites. 

Bailey was not happy with the sharp rocks. 

Required camp fire.

 Reeces S'MORE!

A couple random area photos.

Along the river

The Cumberland River

Santa off-season or Colonel Sanders?

Wander-Inn Stats:

Adventure Dates: August 14-16, 2015
Trip Miles: 374
Trip Nights: 2

Total Miles: 8591
Total Nights: 16

Caesar Creek

Sunny Camping- unusual for us Blue Tarp Campers

Bailey on alert for play time!

Wild life of the green sort

Although we had a nice long cross country trip, we really want to get out in Wander-Inn as much as possible so we took a quick weekend trip to Caesar Creek near Waynesville, OH.  

It was just a kick-back couple of days with us and Bailey and some nice weather. 

Perfect!

Wander-Inn Stats:

Adventure Dates: August 1-2, 2015
Trip Miles: 127
Trip Nights: 1

Total Miles: 8217
Total Nights: 14