Travel date: June 23, 2017 Way back when we first started planning our cross-country trip, we put two quirky-sounding museums in Idaho on our tentative itinerary: the Idaho Potato Museum and the Museum of Clean. I’m not kidding when I say that my kids were as excited about the Museum of Clean as they were […]
Colter Bay RV Park in Grand Teton National Park: Campground Review
We drove by a lot of no hook-ups National Park campgrounds last summer, and I spent a lot of time gazing at them wistfully, feeling sad because we’re just not set up for dry camping. And then driving for half an hour outside the park to wherever our private campground was. But at Colter Bay […]
Two Days in the Tetons: Visiting Grand Teton National Park
Travel dates: June 21-23, 2017 I think a lot of people view a visit to Grand Teton National Park the same way we did: as something you really might as well do when you’re already so close, visiting Yellowstone. And then, like us, they get there and realize that, not only is Grand Teton a beautiful, […]
Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park and West Yellowstone, MT: Campground Review and MORE!
Travel dates: June 17-21, 2017 We stayed in a lot of fairly rustic campgrounds last summer, which is not something we mind….but the tidy, pristinely landscaped Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park, with its orderly grid of well-kept campsites was a welcome mid-trip oasis. We loved the town of West Yellowstone itself, too: compact and walkable and […]
Touring Yellowstone, Part 2: Yellowstone West (not West Yellowstone. That’s another post)
Travel dates: June 17-21, 2017 I’m tearing right along with these posts now, because I started mapping out in my head how many I’ll need to do a week in order to finish before our next summer trip….and I realized I needed to get moving. I’ve got to say, though, that spending the entire year between summer […]
Fishing Bridge RV Park Isn’t So Scary: A Campground Review
Travel dates: June 15-17, 2017 My post about all the stuff we did in Yellowstone while we were staying at Fishing Bridge Two days before we were due to arrive at Fishing Bridge RV Park in Yellowstone, I had something approaching a panic attack about it and spent an evening reading terrifying reviews online, becoming […]
Touring Yellowstone, Part 1: Yellowstone East
Travel dates: June 15-17, 2017 We left Cody and drove into Yellowstone National Park from the east, and our first impressions were of wildness and vastness. It had been an exceptionally wet winter, and there was snow everywhere, even in the middle of June (the snowman was waiting for us when we arrived; we didn’t […]
Looking Ahead: 2018 Travel Plans
It’s that magical, very cold time of year when everyone wants to hibernate inside and watch TV and read books and drink cocoa and plan trips! Especially plan trips. And so, as a companion piece to my last post looking back at 2017’s travel, here’s the post about what we have planned so far for […]
Looking Back at 2017: Top 12 Travel Memories
On New Year’s Eve, 2016, we were spending our second night in our brand new toy hauler, at a KOA in Orlando just outside Disney World on our spur of the moment Disney without the parks stop. We’d had big plans to spend the evening watching the Magic Kingdom fireworks from Fort Wilderness, but the […]
Planning a Yellowstone Trip with Kids
travel dates: June 15-21, 2017 What I remember most about the planning process for the Yellowstone part of our trip is that I found it completely overwhelming. I’m not sure if you’ve heard the rumors, but it’s true: Yellowstone is BIG. And we had six nights planned there, making it one of the longest stops […]