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 […]
Best Interstate Rest Areas for Kids (also, maybe you’ve always been curious about the history of rest areas in general?)
We stopped at a few exceptional rest areas on our trip this summer, and I wanted to share what we found on the blog…but none of them by themselves really seemed to justify an entire post. So I thought maybe I’d group them together into a Best Interstate Rest Areas for Kids round-up kind of […]
2017 Travel Plans, or: the (Very) Long Awaited Massive Road Trip Year is Finally Here!
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, we made a big plan to spend a whole summer break going on a giant, cross-country road trip. One thing led to another and soon we had decided we’d better buy a travel trailer to make this plan a little more economically manageable. Then time passed, […]
2016: The (Tentative) Year in Travel
I think of 2015 as the year we really got back into traveling regularly after taking some time off when Abe was tiny. We didn’t really take time off entirely, since we did a Disney trip with him when he was four months old and then a big DC road trip the summer after he […]