To me, Mother’s Day is one of the most challenging celebrations to plan on the calendar. Since I live six hours from my mother, planning something in person like a brunch reservation or other event is rarely possible. Yet, sending something like flowers or an edible arrangement always seem to dim in comparison to being…
We have officially been at home for well over a month without leaving our house. Not for work. Not for fun. For a traveling family, that’s hard to do. And how can you have a travel blog without actually traveling? Extremely hard to do. Oddly, we are holding up well in this scenario. We work…
So here it is, the home stretch. The final blog for our Route 66 adventure. The last night in a hotel and the last two days of driving. They are condensed into a single blog for the sake of interest since it covers 1,105 miles of driving with very few stops. Part of me delayed…
Sunday’s segment of 440 miles was full of adventure offering us two completely new experiences on the trip and ultimately served as a celebration of our journey. Trains, Trains, Everywhere Trains Sunday’s first leg would take us 300 miles over the course of four and a half hours. I cannot discuss a trip out west…
Saturday, July 6, 2019, was a day all about the miles. We had big plans lined up for Sunday and needed to get some serious mileage in to make those plans happen. 654 miles and nearly 10 hours of driving to get from Park City, Utah, to Burlington, Colorado. Burlington was pretty much a random…
Well, we were down to the last five days. It was time to start heading east towards home. As you may recall from our “We Have Time” post, we arrived in Boise with no real plan on the Route we would take home. No hotel reservations made. We needed to get down to business. The…
While we wait on the Vegas IS for kids blog, let’s get back on the road of our cross-country adventure. From Las Vegas we headed north to Boise, Idaho. I mean, we were already out west, we had some extra time, so why not just pop up to Idaho to say hi to more family.…
Long live the holidays! Or at least this vacation. 3,000 miles in the books and we’re not even halfway complete on our miles yet. If the first ten days are any indication of what lies ahead, then count me in for the fun. Breakfast Hellos and Goodbyes Mondays can be sad in any given week.…
Finishing the Route 66 drive isn’t the end of the journey for us. It’s the beginning of Part II – heading home. It won’t be as fun as Part I was out to California; but, enjoying the journey no matter where it takes you is what it’s all about for us. Sunday is all about…
Saturday was the final stretch. At least the final stretch of Route 66 and taking our time to get nowhere in particular. 154 miles to Santa Monica, California. It is my least favorite stretch of Route 66 for many reasons. Mainly because it means we are nearing the end of what has been one of…
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