Thursday, June 4, 2026
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
2017 (Kellisa's First 18 Years)
Kellisa Keeps Her Side and Reaches 18
After moving across the country in 2016 and finishing our quest to hike in all 50 states, 2017 was still a year filled with many adventures and fun times.
The year
started out with some of Kellisa's hiking adventures featured in the new
book, families on foot. We also went to Yosemite
National Park for the first time, and the girls enjoyed Disney on Ice in
Sacramento. Our family vacation for the year was a week in the Pacific
Northwest where we visited several national parks and hiked with a large group
of wheelchairs. Kellisa really enjoyed not being the only one in a chair on a
trail.
Monday, June 1, 2026
2016 (Kellisa's First 18 Years)

Our
family would relocate from Jacksonville, FL to Sacramento, CA in 2016 for my
job. Our plan to move at the end of the kid's school year was changed when Lisa
accepted a position that started in mid-January.
After
spending many New Year's Days exploring the Okefenokee Swamp, we spent the
first day of 2016 at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.
We were
driving Lisa's van to California over the long holiday weekend and chose a
route that went through Oklahoma so Egypt could claim a new state visited and
knock off another state that both girls hiked together.



