Day 9 – July 2, 2024 – Badger, CA So we wretched ourselves out of bed and left our place at about 7:15 am to hit up Sequoia National Park! It was about 45-60 minutes away from us, and the unfortunateness is that we picked this remote cabin because it was close to both Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, which are both remote and weirdly next to each other, but tricky to travel to. WELL, turns out the major…
Day 5 – June 28, 2024 – Santa Monica, CA to El Portal, CA We are on the move today! Due to a scheduled tour activity in the evening tonight, Matt whipped all of us up into a frenzy to make sure that we made it out of bed on time – he even had Sarah worried we wouldn’t make it to Yosemite in time. “The tram waits for no one,” he kept saying (Matt sourced this from sad reviews…
Day 1 – June 24, 2024 – Waupaca, WI to Santa Monica, CA Yes, ’tis true. We are going to the fabled home of Walley World – California! No, this is not some epic car trip. We are tired and frankly, getting away for that long gets trickier every year around family and work commitments. So we are cheating and flying. Earlier this year, we tossed around ideas about where to go. Matt really wanted to hit up Acadia National…
Day 5 – Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Washington, D.C. This is it, guys! The piece de resistance! When we hatched this plan a couple months ago, all Sarah wanted to snag was a White House tour – she had been here a few times in the past but never done that. In order to get a tour, you have to submit a form to your state’s senator, and their office submits your information on your behalf. THEN, you get another…
Day 1 – Friday, March 1, 2024Waupaca, WI to South Bend, IN Hello internet trolls and stalkers and family – after taking a break for a year and a half from road trips, we are back! (Well, we are not counting the trip to the Dells and the Driftless Area from last summer – we will not ever speak of that motel in Dodgeville ever again, eep (plus if you don’t leave the state, is it really a road trip?))…
Day 4 – February 20, 2023, Monday (President’s Day) So a lot of what happens on the islands revolves around the typical work week – as in, on the weekends, and holidays like today, the beaches will be crowded with locals and more shops in smaller towns will be closed. Knowing this, we had decided to drive the Highway to Hana today – save the beaches for the less crowded days! We woke up at 5:30 am – sounds…
Day 1 – February 17, 2023 – Friday – Waupaca, WI to Madison, WI to Kaanapali, HI Yes, you ready that right – back to Hawaii, baby! Can you believe the last time we went here was right before the pandemic started? We made all these sad jokes on this blog about getting trapped in Hawaii, haha, wouldn’t that be horrible? My god, only if we knew. Like, Jesus, if only we know. Anyway, we thought this year we wanted…
Day 11 – Friday, June 17, 2022 – Cortez, CO to Alamosa, CO The journey slowly east home has begun! Today we planned to spend the morning at Mesa Verde National Park, right outside of Cortez, then drive 3-4 hours east to Alamosa. Spend a couple nights there, then Lincoln, NE (UGGHHHH), then home! We bounded up and out of bed (well, Zoe was curled in a ball saying no, but that’s her baseline morning wake up), and we went…
Day 8 – Tuesday, June 14, 2022 – Kanab, UT to Flagstaff, AZ We are so tired. Never do this. We saw a sign for Los Angeles and couldn’t even get excited about that. At least we are scoping out the parks, but this is getting exhausting. Matt is the consummate driver, and the kids voted against Sarah driving (geez….). We leisurely awakened, had some sketchy continental breakfast (only fruit available: old apples) and loaded up the car for the drive. …
Day 5 – Saturday, June 11, 2022 – Moab, UT So much for rolling out of bed, bright eyed and bushy tailed. Matt turned off the 6:05 am alarm and we blearily staggered out of bed at 6:45 am. Oh well, so much for our early departure. We dined again on the continental breakfast, which again was excellent – ate outside and noted that it felt warmer than yesterday. We weren’t wrong. The new theory is – take the time…