My wife and I decided to go do one of the longer hikes in Teddy Roosevelt National Park. According to our math it turned out being just around 12 miles total, including a couple detours to get around herds of bison. 

Anyways, it was a long hot hike, but I'm still glad that we did it, since it was fun seeing parts of Teddy Roosevelt National Park that we hadn't seen before, parts that you can't see from the road or some of the easier hikes. If we were to do it again, though, we would have each brought another 32oz water bottle at least, because it was a lot hotter than the forecast was saying. We didn't run out of water, but having some extra buffer would have been nice.

For camera gear I brought along my Fujifilm X-Pro2 + 16-55 f/2.8 and my Graphite X-T1 + 100-400 f/4.5-5.6. Two cameras and two lenses made it nice, because I didn't have to change lenses in the dust. I took around 400 total photos and didn't have to change my battery once in either camera, which was great! People keep saying mirrorless cameras have terrible battery life, but I'm just not seeing it.

I'll start off the post here with my favorite picture of the whole hike, taken at a nice little oasis almost amongst the scrub brush and juniper. 

So my Wife and I took a trip to Omaha Nebraska to watch the Olympic Swimming Trials. Seriously impressive swim meet, especially for it being a whole week long. But that isn't what this post is about. We had a good amount of down time in between the preliminary session in the morning and the finals session in the evening so we got to do some exploring around downtown Omaha! It is a ridiculously vibrant city with so much going on! Even compared to the last few cities I have been to (Denver, Detroit, and ...Fargo...) it was really busy, lots going on, lots of new things being built, just expanding really fast!