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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 4, 20254 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 4, 20255 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 3, 20255 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 22, 20253 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 2, 20253 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 1, 20257 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 28, 20254 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 25, 20257 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


Day 10 - Garden of the Gods
We had three nights in Colorado Springs which means we had two full days. There was a lot of stuff we wanted to see here, but we were...
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Jul 30, 20243 min read


Day 9 - Pikes Peak
Today we were headed up to Pikes Peak, which is something I have been very excited to do. You can get to Pikes Peak a few ways: driving...
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Jul 28, 20246 min read


Day 8 - Drive to Colorado Springs
Friday was a drive day as we were done in Estes Park and heading down to Colorado Springs. The drive to Colorado Springs from Estes Park...
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Jul 27, 20245 min read


Days 6 and 7 - Rocky Mountain National Park
I'm falling behind on blog posts, and with over a week left on our trip I can't afford to do that. So I am combining both days in the...
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Jul 26, 20245 min read


Day 5 - Drive to Estes Park, CO
On Tuesday we were off for Colorado. We packed up early and left the campsite by 6:15am. Looking back on them, these early morning...
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Jul 24, 20244 min read


Day 4 - Mount Rushmore and Black Hills
Monday was our most exciting day yet on the trip as we had a number of cool things planned. It was really tough to filter through all our...
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Jul 24, 20246 min read


Day 3 - Badlands National Park
After two days of extensive driving we were finally in good shape to spend most of a day seeing some main sites. The first one was...
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Jul 22, 20244 min read


Day 2 - Drive to South Dakota
After a long day of driving we made it to our campground in Kennebec, SD. The total drive time today was the same as yesterday which was...
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Jul 21, 20244 min read
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