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Day 12: Trip Home
Sunday was our last day and it really was just the drive home from New Jersey. We had stayed the night before right on the NJ/PA border...
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Aug 143 min read


Day 11: New Jersey
Our last day of camping was a stay in New Jersey. To get there, one of the proposed options from Google Maps was to cut across New York...
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Aug 103 min read


Day 10: Connecticut
Friday was another short drive day as we were heading just West to Connecticut. Not only were we just going next door, but we were only...
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Aug 103 min read


Day 9: Rhode Island
Thursday morning we were able to sleep in a little bit since we had a very short drive to Rhode Island. We got up and ate and then took...
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Aug 104 min read


Day 8: Cape Cod
On Wednesday we were heading off to Cape Cod, so we didn’t feel the need to rush in the morning. We made some breakfast and then packed...
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Aug 84 min read


Day 7: Salem, Massachusetts
We got up early on Tuesday to head to Massachusetts. We had to drive up through Bangor and drop off the rental car. Then we were heading...
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Aug 76 min read


Day 6: Bar Harbor and Acadia, Pt. 2
On Monday we had another whole day in Bar Harbor. Fortunately, Nolan was not up at the crack of dawn. So although everyone did get up a...
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Aug 64 min read


Day 5: Bar Harbor and Acadia, Pt. 1
Nolan treated us by getting up at 5:45 on Sunday. After initially trying to contain him in the back room of the motorhome I eventually...
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Aug 53 min read


Day 4: Bar Harbor
On Saturday morning we were supposed to get up at 5:30am and try to get on the road by 6:00am. However, I overslept by an hour. This...
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Aug 44 min read


Day 3: Vermont and New Hampshire
On Friday we had a few things we wanted to do in Vermont before we made our way over to New Hampshire. Since the states are so small we...
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Aug 45 min read


Days 1 and 2: New York and Vermont
The first day of the trip was really just an evening. We left our house around 4pm which was record time for us to get out of the house...
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Aug 35 min read


Summer Vacation
We are a little more than half-way through the girls' summer break and it is finally time to head off on vacation. Our primary...
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Jul 223 min read


Days 8-9: Trip Home
We left Ponchatoula on Wednesday afternoon at 2pm and were headed home. We had to stop 10 miles into the trip to return the minivan at...
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May 23 min read


Days 6-8: Louisiana
On Monday morning we were off to Louisiana. Our next campground was the Sun Outdoors resort in Ponchatoula. We picked this campground...
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May 17 min read


Days 3-5: Gulfport, Mississippi
Our campground for the next three nights was the Gulfport Luxury RV Resort. This was possibly one of, if not the, best campgrounds we...
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Apr 284 min read


Days 1-2: Heading Down to Alabama
For our first trip of 2025 we decided to head down to the Gulf Coast during Spring Break. Westlake's schools still follow the traditional...
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Apr 257 min read


Day 16 - Drive Home and Recap
Hard to believe that Saturday was our 16th day out on the road. We had a long drive ahead of us, but we were all excited to get back...
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Aug 4, 20245 min read


Days 14 and 15 - St. Louis
Our last stop on the trip before heading home to Cleveland was St. Louis. We pulled out of Tulsa nice and early on Thursday morning and...
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Aug 4, 20245 min read


Days 12 and 13 - Amarillo and Tulsa
We are starting to make our way home and to break up the extensive driving we are going to make a couple extra stops along the way. The...
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Aug 1, 20247 min read


Day 11 - Great Sand Dunes and New Mexico
On Monday we were leaving Colorado and heading south to New Mexico. Along the way we were going to stop at the Great Sand Dunes National...
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Jul 30, 20246 min read
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