Travel dates: May 29-June 1, 2017 Read more about our stay in St. Louis here Let’s just get this out of the way right up front. Here’s the best thing about staying at Casino Queen RV Park in St. Louis: This was the view from right outside our trailer. Last time we were in […]
Our Cross-country Family Road Trip: What Worked and What Didn’t for our Two Month RV Trip
My first summing everything up kind of post about our cross country trip was all philosophical and meta and whatnot. This one, on the other hand, makes no pretense of grand observations about the meaning of life…it’s about the mundane, practical details involved in spending two months seeing the country in a travel trailer. We’re […]
Two Days in St. Louis with Kids and Bikes: Four Free Things to Do
Our family’s relationship with St. Louis goes all the way back to spring of 2015, when we went there and to Mammoth Cave for spring break. And we had a fabulous time (and didn’t get to see nearly everything), so we decided on St. Louis for our first multi-day stop of our summer trip. We […]
Seven Points Campground near Nashville, TN: Campground Review
Travel dates: Sunday, May 28-Monday, May 29, 2017 One thing we’ve noted about lodging prices in Nashville is that they’re completely nuts. I remember this from our weekend trip there in fall of 2015, and we found it again when we started looking for a place to stay this summer. I’ve heard good things about […]
Summation: Thoughts on Sixty Days on the Road
One of my professors in grad school liked to tell an anecdote about the tedium of reading college admission essays. A huge percentage of the essays, he said, were about a life changing trip the kid had taken at some point during high school. And the grand revelation all of these kids came to on […]
New Mexico, Texas, et. al: the 6th and LAST Big Road Trip Update!
Hey–we’re home! We’ve been back for a few days now, and we’re slowly settling back in. As of this afternoon, I have completely finished editing photos from the trip, and they’re all (somewhat) neatly organized into folders on an external hard drive. I sort of feel like a superhero. So there will be many more posts […]
Livermore, San Francisco, and Heading Back East: Big Road Trip Update #5
We’re only a week + one day away from making it back home! Part of me feels like I could keep going forever; other parts of me miss our dogs and cats and want to be in a separate room from my kids for a change. I thought I wasn’t going to have an RVing […]
Wyoming and a Little Montana: Yellowstone, Grand Teton, etc: Big Road Trip Update #3
Travel dates: June 13-June 23, 2017 Let’s get this week’s minor catastrophe out of the way first, since there always is one. Flashback to our last morning in St. Louis when we discovered a deer tick, very much attached, on Abe. Two of my older kids got Lyme a few years ago on a trip to […]
A Whole Lot of South Dakota: Cross Country Trip Update #2
Travel dates: June 2-12, 2017 We’re more than two weeks into our trip now, and it feels like a really long time since my last check in a bit over a week ago. Time passes weirdly when you’re traveling, I’ve noticed. I left off with a bit of a cliff-hanger about our maybe broken/leaky air […]
….and We’re Off! Starting our 2017 Cross Country Trip
Travel dates: May 27-June 1, 2017 We’re approaching one week in to our eight week long cross country trip, so I thought I’d do a quick check-in (more comprehensive posts about the places we’re visiting and campground reviews to come….sometime). I’m going to try to do these once a week or so….a quick recap and […]