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Route 66
Day 4 of our roadtrip called for an uneventful 10-hour trip from Williams, Arizona to San Luis Obispo, California. We continued to see signs about Historic Route 66 as we drove along and we talked about how much fun it would be to try to follow the old route sometime. We stopped in Kingman, Arizona for drinks (at Sonic!) and…
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Grand Canyon
We spent the first day of our trip traveling. We enjoyed southern Utah on the second day. Day 3 was our day to see the Grand Canyon. Lyle had planned our trip to allow for plenty of time there. Our first stop inside the park was at an overlook that had a watchtower we could climb for great views of…
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Bryce Canyon National Park
We just returned from a 10-day road-trip. Part of it was vacation, and part of it was work-related (homeschool convention). I’ll be posting highlights of the trip as a series. There’s too much to put in one post. Our route took us from our home in north Idaho, down through western Montana, back through the bottom of Idaho, then down…
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Montana Trip
We took our new RV to Kalispell, Montana to the Montana homeschool convention this past weekend. That was fun! Since it was the holiday weekend we stayed over an extra day and went to Glacier National Park. We were disappointed that the pass on the Going-to-the-Sun Road was still closed, so we couldn’t go all the way over it. We…
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Fort Clatsop
From Wikipedia: " Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805-1806."Our girls were 8 and 11 when we visited there in March 2004. We had been learning about Lewis and Clark in our homeschool studies that year, so it was fun…
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Our vacation in 2004 took us to the Colorado Rockies. We had a pop-up camper that year. We spent a night or two at a campground near Estes Park. We planned our route to take us through Rocky Mountain National Park. The highway was long and twisty with slow speed limits but the views were spectacular. We also enjoyed several…
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Road Trips on a Budget
We love to travel! Many of our favorite memories both before and after kids involve road trips. Obviously, traveling can be quite spendy… but we are learning to economize in this area, too. I’d rather be frugal on trips, and get to go more often, than make one big splurge and then have to stay home for a long time…
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Oregon Trail
On our way home yesterday we visited the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. It was a very cool museum that the whole family thoroughly enjoyed. As we went up to the reception area to pay the lady asked, “Do you homeschool your little ones?” When I said, “Yes,” she said, “Well, you’re home free, then. Go right on in!” I thought…
