Our 4th grade National Park Pass Trip
Read time: 18 minutes 17 days- California- South Dakota- Wyoming- Oregon/Washington-California Come along the journey below or click the outline button for the condensed version. trip outline Since we completed our first long road trip and made it back home safely, looking back, we enjoyed it immensely. 2021 was the year America was starting to slowly get back to “normal” from our statewide quarantine so back on the road we go! This was also the year Jacob was a 4th grader so he was the one able to get us into all the National Parks and he proudly showed the rangers his America the Beautiful card as we entered Zion, Badlands, Yosemite, Crater Lake, and Redwoods. We thought we could use it to enter Mount Rushmore but the park pass is not valid there. We also visited Crazy Horse Memorial, and the Black Hills this trip. Writing this now…
First long Trip- tips and tricks learned along the way.
Read time: 17 minutes 21 day trip Come along for the ride or click the trip outline button for the condensed version. Trip Outline By the end of 2018, our family was just about fed up with hotel stay costs. Jessica was a dedicated synchronized swimmer with many competitions being out of state forcing us to take costly weekend trips. Because of this and because of our new found love for road trips, we began our quest for a home on wheels that would fit our family needs. We decided on a RV that was small enough to fit in our driveway and small enough to be our main mode of transportation around town. It also needed to be big enough for us to comfortably maneuver around it while on the road, and it needed to have actual bed sizes with minimal set up time. God Blessed us with our…
Coast to Coast- to Key West we GO
Trip Outline Read time: 25 minutes 35 days long trip with many adventures- Come along for the detailed adventure below or click on the trip outline button for the condensed version of this trip. Here we go! 2023 was the year we took the trip we like to call “Trip of a lifetime”. For the first time both J and I took on coaching at our High School for two different sport seasons which allotted us to add a few extra bucks to our vacation fund so we included some splurges this time. Since we headed out across the country again, we assumed this may be our last time there so we jam packed our calendar like never before. This is also by far the most costly trip we’ve taken so we learned to scale down going forward but this truly was a trip of a lifetime and we loved…
How it all started… our first family road trip
Come along for the ride Read time: 12 minutes 7 day trip- 8 destinations Trip outline Summer time in 1994, right before entering high school, I was invited to tag along on a road trip through the canyon that completely changed my life. Tia Edna is a traveler and this particular summer she wanted to revisit the beauties in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. At this time, the furthest I’ve been in this country was Las Vegas so I was ready to see what else is out there. This particular trip we visited Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, and visited the Colorado River. This trip is when I fell in love with Nature, I still have very vivid memories from this trip and I vowed to someday take my own family there someday. I loved this trip so much that Tia Edna allowed me to…