Easter Traditions for a Traveling Family

Easter Traditions for a Traveling Family

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Easter is a very special holiday for our family. Celebrating Christ’s death and resurrection is a beautiful reminder of the most fundamental aspect of our faith. We also love the correlation of Easter with Spring and new life. From bunnies and chicks to flowers and trees, spring reminds us of a new beginning. Nothing is more important than the new life we receive through Christ’s death and resurrection. We have celebrated Easter all around the world. It doesn’t matter where…

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Lessons Learned from our First Road Trip with Toddlers

Lessons Learned from our First Road Trip with Toddlers

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After 18 days, thousands of miles, and countless memories made, we completed our first cross-country road trip with our kids! It was an awesome adventure and we will most definitely do it again (and have since!). But we learned a few things on this road trip that we hope to implement next time. Space out the driving days throughout the road trip I talked about this briefly during my last few posts about the road trip, but this was our…

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Ruckersville, Virginia and Washington, DC

Ruckersville, Virginia and Washington, DC

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Ruckersville, Virginia Our last several days of driving were long and scenic. As we approached the Appalachian Mountains, the fall colors became more vibrant and the beautiful farms and horse pastures that lined the highway were just beautiful.   We spent the night after St. Louis in a beautiful rural campground in Kentucky. We enjoyed a stunning sunset behind a field with trees painted in fall colors just outside our camper door. We continued our drive the next day to…

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St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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If you’ve been following our road trip in chronological order, you’ve probably noticed that we crammed A LOT of sightseeing into the trip so far. Due to a planning error on our part, the second half of our trip was filled with many long days of driving and not a lot of sight-seeing. Luckily we learned from this and spaced out the driving more evenly on our next road trip. Leaving The West Behind After two very long days of driving, we arrived…

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Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota

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When we initially started planning this road trip across the United States, the first location I knew I wanted to include was Mount Rushmore. I tried to include it on our trip to Yellowstone last year, but my husband didn’t approve the additional 8-hour drive. Who knew those western states were so big?! For me, Mount Rushmore is one of those iconic American spots that I had always wanted to visit. But, it’s a bit out of the way. In…

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Colorado – Garden of the Gods and Pike’s Peak

Colorado – Garden of the Gods and Pike’s Peak

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Colorado is so beautiful, and we have spent some time here in the past. In 2009, we enjoyed a week of skiing in the Colorado Mountains. Todd came to Colorado with the boy scouts when he was growing up. I visited Colorado several times in high school on family road trips and with my high school choir. We love Colorado, and were really excited to explore some of the state with our kids! My cousin, Jim, and his girlfriend Meredith…

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Moab, Utah – Arches and Canyonlands National Parks

Moab, Utah – Arches and Canyonlands National Parks

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We arrived in Moab late in the afternoon of Day 2 of the road trip after a very busy morning at Bryce Canyon and driving through Utah’s most scenic roads. Moab is the most convenient location to stay when visiting Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. The town is an ideal spot for anyone who loves adventure, as it’s located right in the middle of the two parks. We spent 3 nights at the ACT Campground located about 2.5…

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Capitol Reef National Park and Route 12

Capitol Reef National Park and Route 12

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After leaving Bryce Canyon National Park, we spent the rest of the day driving Utah Scenic Byway 12 through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to Capitol Reef National Park and on to Moab, Utah. Utah Scenic Byway – Route 12 There’s a reason this is known as the most scenic drive in all of America! The scenery along this drive was like nothing I’ve ever seen before. There were points where the road was literally the top of the ridge and…

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Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park

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Bryce Canyon National Park is easily in my top 5 favorite National Parks to visit! It’s not hard to see why. The landscape is so unique – literally like nowhere you’ve ever been before. It is also much less visited than other parks. The spiral shaped hoodoos found at Bryce Canyon are impossible to describe. Pictures never do the spectacular views from the rim of the canyon justice. The colors are incredible and change throughout the day. And, the hiking is as…

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Zion National Park

Zion National Park

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The start of our road trip from Las Vegas to Washington D.C. led us to a familiar spot. After our move to Las Vegas, Zion National Park quickly became one of our favorite locations to visit. Only a quick 2 and a half hour drive leads you from sin city to incredible canyon walls. While the visitation at Zion has increased dramatically over the past 10 years, as long as you can venture more than a mile down a trail…

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