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RVin’
We bought a travel trailer last year, and we are enjoying it so much as we travel on weekends to homeschool conventions. My husband and I think we would love to live on the road, at least for awhile. But that doesn’t seem to be a practical scenario with my husband’s job, so we are glad to have the opportunity…
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10 Hours in an Airport
I was in Denver last week for a training conference, along with about 30 others. Everyone was to leave after 1:00 p.m. on Saturday so we were dropped off at the airport about noon. My flight was not scheduled to leave until 9:40 p.m. I knew I’d have a long wait just hanging out until my flight started boarding. What…
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Highway 1
On Day 5 of our roadtrip we drove up the central coast of California on Highway 1. It was pretty foggy – not ground fog to make road visibility bad – but enough to make it hard to see the ocean. I guess that’s typical for mornings this time of year. The fog finally burned off about noon and we…
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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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Year in Review 2004
I don’t often take the time to do the quizzes that go around, but I do want to write my “year in review” today for my scrapbook, so I thought this might be a good place to start. I’ve seen this on several other sites… (It’s kinda long so I’m going to cut some of the questions I don’t have…
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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…
