MILWAUKEE, Wis. (SPECTRUM NEWS) -- When the pandemic began, writer and photographer Jacqueline Kehoe was likely experiencing the same uncertainty about her future as most people... but as a writer, she expressed those emotions more colorfully.

"And then we entered a global pandemic," Kehoe wrote in her piece featured by National Geographic, titled, "Discovering an Unexpected Wilderness on Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail." "I was relegated to my own backyard, stuck somewhere I barely knew: Wisconsin. Life seemed sure to be smaller and stagnant, like a yearlong winter without the snow or ice. I imagined myself perpetually indoors, sipping tea and lighting fires despite the 85-degree heat."

Kehoe, who recently moved to Madison, set out to Indian Lake County Park, where she began to hike the 1,200 mile-long Ice Age Trail, documenting the experience as she went.

"I was looking for a place that had some good elevation, and I was told that was hard to find but I don't necessarily think that's true anymore," Kehoe told Spectrum News 1 on Tuesday. "Wisconsin has this entire world that I'd never really seen before."

Watch Kehoe's entire interview above, and to read her piece for National Geographic, click here.