After leaving the Blue Ridge Mountains on Monday, we drove to Twin Knobs Campground on Cave Run Lake in eastern Kentucky. The lake was was a nice place to cool off! Our campground was a little shady and we had a hard time getting our solar to charge so we lost power. Luckily, that’s not …
July 9 – July 12 We left DC after packing up the AirBnB, tiring out Scout, and getting supplies at the grocery store. After a short drive, we entered Shenandoah National Park and made our way south along the ridge of the Appalachian Mountains to our campsite in Big Meadows Campground. It felt good to …
July 4 – July 9 We arrived in Arlington, VA at our AirBnB and met up with Kevin’s family. His Dad Wally and step-mom Nancy live nearby in McLean, VA, his brother Steve and wife Daniela came from Germany (their kids couldn’t come because of travel restrictions), and his brother Mike, girlfriend Kathleen and kids …
June 30 – July 4 On our way to visit my cousin Susan in Brewster, NY we stopped at Sturbridge Village, a live outdoor museum of Puritan life in the 1830’s. While Kevin worked, the girls and I walked around the village and took in all the ways life had changed as we watched the …
*Note: There are some videos in this post that won’t play via e-mail. Click the link to see them. June 25th-29th We met Mike, Chase and Cohen in Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) state park campground, Vermont. It was a fun weekend of catching up with the cousins and playing on lake Champlain. After …
Wednesday, June 23 – Friday, June 25 (posted late due to bad cell service) We left Dave and Lori’s at 5:45a with the hopes that we could make it into New York at an early enough time to add in a visit Niagara Falls. It added an extra hour of driving to an already long …
Thursday, June 17 – Wednesday, June 23 We finally made it to Michigan to visit my cousin Dave and his wife Lori and boy, it did not disappoint! It was so great for our 2 families to get quality time together and for Zoey and Quinn to get to know them better. Luckily for us, …
June 14th – June 17th It was a long drive across Wyoming to Horse Thief Lake Campground in western South Dakota. We arrived with time to enjoy a swim in the lake. We settled into camp with minimal set-up and a cozy fire. At 3am, we awoke to a crazy thunder and lightening storm. Kevin …
My favorite part of this trip so far was in Boise because I got to ride a horse named Mercy. I loved Mercy because she was the first horse that I had ever ridden on. My second favorite part was the geyser Old Faithful. At Old Faithful, we saw it erupt and we saw wild …
June 10th – June 14th It was another long drive to get to our campground near the Gros Ventre River just outside of Jackson, WY. We stopped at the Crater of the Moon National Monument for a lunch break but the wind was so strong that the lunch meat kept flying off the sandwiches while …
