Eighteen Short Years: Travel. Adventure. Joy.
After our quick tour of Yellowstone’s West Thumb Geyser, we pushed on east to say goodbye to Wyoming and head into South Dakota to revisit a family favorite from our first ever road trip in 2020: Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota. But Wyoming doesn’t say goodbye easily or quickly – […]
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Yellowstone National Park is massive. Covering more than 3,400 square miles of land in Wyoming and Montana, the park can be explored via North, east, West, and south access points onto a highway that creates an enormous figure eight through the park’s gorgeous (and often other-worldly) scenery. Entering from our campsite at Flagg Ranch Campground
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Our drive to Moran, Wyoming from Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho brought us to Flagg Ranch Campground from the south. That meant the last ninety minutes of our drive was North US 191 – a slow moving road right through the heart of Grand Teton National Park that offered endless wildlife viewing
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According to our trusty Google maps, fourteen and a half hours of driving lay between Eugene Premier RV Resort and our next stop at Flagg Ranch Campground in Moran, Wyoming. No small feat. Oof. With our best attitudes packed, and excited to reach Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, we headed east. Oregon is a
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Our 48 hours enjoying Tracktown USA and the Oregon Country Fair Knowing that our next stop was in Eugene, Oregon, softened the heartache of driving away from the Pacific Coast after a beautiful and relaxing two-day stay in Cannon Beach. When I said in the Cannon Beach post that Mike and I honeymooned in Cannon
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How we spent 40 GLORIOUS truck-free hours in a place that holds a piece of my heart. Mike and I honeymooned on Cannon Beach in 2010, so adding a stop there before heading back east made perfect sense to us. The more difficult decision was HOW to get there from Port Angeles, WA. We desperately
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This might just be a new favorite National Park for me. It was magical…sigh. Where We Stayed: Port Angeles/Olympic KOA Seven nights after leaving the campground of our dreams in West Glacier, MT, we arrived at the Port Angeles/Olympic KOA. This KOA is a holiday KOA version, not a resort like West Glacier, but our
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The road to Sunrise in Mount Rainier National Park opened on July 4th, 2024 for the summer season. And early in the morning of July 5th, our family was making the trek up the mountain for the second day in a row. Our long and arduous (for our family!) 5+ mile hike on the Skyline
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Like Glacier, Mount Rainer requires a reservation to enter the park, so we were back to our 7 pm alarm setting ways while staying in Packwood, Washington. We were successful in getting a pass for the Stevens Canyon entrance for the 4th of July. We were up early to pack for a big day of
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We got married on Martha’s Vineyard in February, 2010, hours before running one of our favorite races, the Martha’s Vineyard 20 miler. Mike has family on Cape Cod and we try to visit at least once a year. While there, we love taking the ferry over to Martha’s Vineyard, and even took the ferry over
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Driving to the Glacier Peak Resort Campground that was situated on the western side of North Cascades National Park required pulling our 30′ travel trailer over the North Cascades Highway. Trucks and trailers are allowed on the road, but it isn’t an easy drive – especially at the end of two long days of travel.
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With our bellies full from a delicious breakfast at the Bear Paw Cafe, we pulled out of the West Glacier KOA Resort at noon on Saturday to head west for two days of driving and one night of boondocking before reaching out next campground – Glacier Peak Resort and Winery – at the foot of
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The weather forecast for our third and final day in West Glacier was similar to our second full day – cold and rainy. While it didn’t make a lot of sense to pack up all of our (now pretty wet) gear and head out before 7 am for a third day in a row, we
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Visions of the packed parking area at the Avalanche trailhead in our minds, we pulled out of the campground at 6:45am for our second day of adventure at Glacier National Park. We hoped that the pouring rain would also work in our favor. The heavy rains didn’t seem to discourage any of the other park
Refreshed from our first glorious night’s sleep in the campground of our dreams, West Glacier KOA Resort, we were up and at ’em at the crack of dawn Tuesday morning, ready to take on Going to the Sun Road and the Hidden Lake Trail hike. Disclaimer: there is nothing overly easy about National Park touring
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I know it’s cheesy, but truly….our crew is having SO MUCH SNOWY FUN this winter. We love to ski. We love to sled ride. We love to ice skate. We love snow. And good for us, because living in the northeast means experiencing winter for a quarter-ish chunk of the year, every year. So here’s
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I’ve taken a couple of weeks off from posting a weekly adventure rundown, but picking up where I left off this Friday morning, I would say that this last week was as filled with reflection and planning as it was adventures. And there was a lot of adventure, so that’s a lot of reflecting and
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After a long (albeit relaxing and fun) week away from home vacationing with family in the Outer Banks last week, this week largely revolved around catching up for our family of four. Our adventures fell in between unpacking, lawn mowing, and general house upkeep. Fishing, swimming, BMX racing, collecting wild berries, creating in the kitchen,
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We went to the beach! After years of hearing friends and family rave about the Outer Banks of North Carolina, our family finally had a chance to see what the hype was all about. My mom rented a house in Duck, NC for the week, and our family got to enjoy a whole lot of
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Our last seven days were pretty quiet (well, with the exception of the fireworks!), but full of fun. The 4th of July holiday falling on Tuesday offered us some extra excitement this week! We Had Great Day of BMX Racing Between baseball commitments, a mom and dad live music getaway, and a family camping trip
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My husband has family on Cape Cod, so we travel to Massachusetts at least once a year to visit. While the narrow roads and premium land value of Cape Cod don’t add up to it being a sought-after RV destination in my book, we looked into traveling with our camper for our summer of 2022
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How our family enjoyed RV camping – the kids enjoyed summer camp, and the adults enjoyed a little alone time – in one fun-filled week in Ithaca, NY. How We Chose to RV Camp at Summer Camp Many factors played a role in our decision to take a week-long family camping trip so that our
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A new BMX track and a new campground made this one a relaxing weekend of firsts for our family. Bouncing on a hayride, under a full moon. Your arm around my shoulder, don’t you still make me swoon. It could’ve been a country song. Except I don’t really enjoy country music. Sorry. I did, however,
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Back in March, we bought annual 2023-2024 ski passes to Greek Peak in Marathon, New York, for our family of four. Celebrating their 65th season, the local(ish) to us ski resort offered season passes at what we thought was a great, low price. After a successful 22-23 season full of long days on the slopes,
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Our family could easily list many reasons we love BMX racing. But these 7 are reasons we think EVERY family should consider trying out this Olympic sport. We started BMX racing four years ago. Our boys, ages 2 and 5 at the time, couldn’t get enough of their bikes. My husband went on the hunt
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