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Lake Metigoshe State Park offers about 6.5 miles of groomed cross-country trails, and many more miles of interpretive trails, snowmobile trails, and other multi-use trails. Next up on our North Dakota winter road trip, was a couple of nights at Cross Ranch State Park. While we were at Cross Ranch State Park, we spent a couple of nights in another yurt, went hiking and fat tire biking on the trails, and ate dinners at nearby restaurants, Crossroads Bar & Grill and Captain’s Cabin Bar and Grill. The multi-use trail is 2.2 miles long (one way) and it connects Harmony Park at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center with Washburn’s Riverside Park.

One of my favorite adventures from our trip to Singapore was the TreeTop Walk at MacRitchie Nature Trail & Reservoir Park. The MacRitchie Nature Trail & Reservoir Park is home to an 11 km nature trail loop. While we waited for our turn to cross the TreeTop Walk, we were captivated by the monkeys playing in the forest. We couldn’t have asked for a better day to end our time in Singapore!

During my visit, I went on a food tour, a city tour, a beer tour, hiking through a national park, bobsledding, to a couple museums, to a traditional Latvian sauna, and more. The tour I went on was a custom tour offered by Live Riga for the WITS conference, but there are plenty of similar city tours offered by a variety of operators throughout Riga. I would have loved to explore the Latvian National Museum of Art, Musee Art Nouveau, Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum, Laima Chocolate Museum, and take a tour of the Latvian National Opera. If you are looking to fit several activities into a one-day trip, these are great ones to start with: a ride on the cable car, a visit to Gutmanis Cave, a tour at the Turaida Museum Reserve and Castle, and a stop at the Sigulda Castle.

Mt. Vogar is located right next to the turquoise waters of Lake Bohinj, the largest lake in Slovenia. After an early morning pick up by 3Glav Adventures at our hotel in Lake Bled, we drove about 30 minutes to Lake Bohinj where we met our paragliding pilots. When the winds picked up, I channeled my inner Dori and kept chanting in my head “just keep running, just keep running” while overenthusiastically kicking my short legs through the air. 3glav Adventures kept us up to date with current weather conditions and when we had to shift our tour to the smaller mountain, we were promptly refunded the price difference between the tours.