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The Alamo - River walk - National park - Rodeo Another trip, another US State, this time we hit up Texas with a visit to San Antonio. We visited the Alamo, …
The Alamo - River walk - National park - Rodeo Another trip, another US State, this time we hit up Texas with a visit to San Antonio. We visited the Alamo, …
Beach - Sun - Cocktails After last years cabin fever over Christmas break, we decided to visit somewhere this year so we spent a few days in Jamacia. We stayed …
Longwood gardens - Crackerbarrel - National park - State park We visited Delaware for a long weekend, ticking off another State. We visited First State National …
Disney World - Coronado Springs Hotel - EPCOT - Hollywood Studios We tried a new hotel for this trip - Coronado Springs. It was a nice resort with a cool …
We stayed in the Georgian House at Hampton Court Palace - absolutely amazing! The house was built in the 1700’s and is on Tennis Court Lane. We had access …
Trinity College - Giant’s Causeway We had a day in Dublin before heading to Northern Ireland to visit the Giant’s Causeway.
Assateague National Park - Ocean City Boardwalk We spent a long weekend heading to the Batemans Bay of Maryland - Ocean City. We went via Assateague National …
Shenandoah National Park - Luray Caves - Frontier Culture Museum Another long weekend, another trip - this time to the Shenandoah valley in Virginia. We started …
Disney World - Port Orleans French Quarter - Star Wars bar A full week in Walt Disney World. We stayed at Port Orleans French Quarter - one of our favourite …
Caribbean - Swimming Pigs - Water park We spent a few days in the Bahamas at the Atlantis resort. The weather was not great and a bit chilly but still warmer …
We had a long weekend in New Orleans and managed to jam in a lot of things! The Pharmacie museum was fun, with a range of old pharmacie equipment and medicines. …
We played more catch up from the postponed part of our 2022 road trip, finally making it to Turks & Caicos. The ocean was as amazing as the brochures …
Air & Space Museum - Botanic gardens We visited the Air and Space Museum in DC - it was under going renovations so part of it was closed off. We saw a …
Long weekend to Universal Studios, Florida Harry Potter at Universal We watched the Harry Potter movies and the kids started reading the books before we went to …
Jousting - Food - Games Visited the Renaissance Faire in Maryland. Ate a turkey leg, watched the Naval College musicians, watched acrobats and saw a …
Food - Games - Pig racing We explored the Maryland State Fair, held up near Baltimore. Similar to the Canberra Show, there were arcade games, farm equipment and …
We spent a weekend in the RV at Lake Anna State park in Virginia. We explored the State park and did a few hikes but otherwise just chilled out in the RV. As …
Amish Country - Amazing Food - Valley Forge We stayed in Amish Country. They have great food here and the kids loved the Bird in Hand buffet so we ended up …
Hollywood Studios - EPCOT We utilised a pupil free day on a Friday and took a quick trip down to Orlando to visit WDW. Staying at the Dolphin hotel, we had 2 …
Back in the RV - Gettysburg - Eisenhower National Historic Site We are back in the RV! Visiting Gettysberg National Historic Site and playing golf on …
USA History - Cheese Steak After cancelling the Philly part of our RV Road trip last year, we finally made it for a long weekend. Weather was freezing (winter + …
For our final food blog we have; 1.Canolli from Mike’s Pastry - queue out the door. It was recommended by someone we met. 2.Deep fried oreos from …
Intrepid is a retired air craft carrier with planes and exhibits, it also has the Enterprise Space Shuttle (which was not built for space!). USS Growler is a …
It was a 4 state day; starting in Massachusetts, we drove through Rhode Island and Connecticut, before arriving in New York State, and finally reaching NYC. We …
We caught the ferry over to Nantucket for a few hours. Again - super cute! But very expensive. We hired bikes and rode around but with the narrow roads and the …
We explored Cape Cod - definitely could have spent more time here! The houses are really cute! Hoxie House dates back to the 1600’s. Lunch was an American …
We spent the day wandering around Harvard and visiting the museums they have on campus. We also found the Harvard bookstore - we managed to limit ourselves to …
We spent our first day in Boston wondering around the Beacon Hill area admiring all the red brick buildings. We found Acorn St with its cute cobblestones, Paul …
We had a day and a half at an indoor water park. The water park comes as part of the room price so it is really convenient as your room is a couple of minute …
We stayed in New Hampshire for two days in a log cabin. The place was very cute with a lot of space and we spent most of the stay chilling out and taking a …
We visited Niagara Falls! The falls were great and the volume of water that goes over every minute is huge! The grounds of the park were nice but the town …
Our truck arrived! Our truck made it from Denver! What happens when you ship a truck with California temporary plates from Denver, Colorado to Buffalo, New …
Calories - Calories - Crazy food - and more calories More great food and more crazy American food, in this round we have; 1.Fresh/tasty vietnamese …
Well the weather didn’t play nicely in Chicago - especially given all of our plans required us to be outside… 🙄 After deciding we could push …
Some more great parking efforts and our truck/RV hanging out with the semi’s
We packed up the RV and farewelled it as it headed to Pennsylvania were we will collect it once we return. The truck was collected a few days later and headed …
The Museum of Nature and Science is cool - a lot of great exhibits, many of which are interactive. The kids had a blast and we ended up staying longer than …
Aaannnd… mum is done with uphill, rocky hikes at high altitudes. We didn’t have a lot of time in the Rocky Mountains (1 short day) so we completed …
Garden of the Gods - Manitou Springs - Penny Arcade We visited Garden of the Gods and walked the main trail. We started chatting with another family at lunch …
Two more Kiwi Co boxes - a levitating lamp and a basketball shot. So far the kids have managed to knock the lamp off its careful placement so it is looking a …
The hike we planned to do now requires a reservation and payment so we gave it a miss. Spent the day at the local pool which is a hot spring pool so warm! It …
One day in Arches National Park. View from our campsite was great and plenty of rocks/places for kids to explore. Kids went to the nightly ranger program which …
We had one full day in Bryce Canyon. We completed a hike down to the floor - yep the picture above was the way out - a series of switchbacks (or a version of …
Gardens - Museum of Curiosity - Planetarium - Temple Square We had two days near Salt Lake City. We headed into Thanksgiving Point and visited Ashton Gardens …
The wonders of American food continues… Our weird and wonderful, and sometimes tasty finds…. Cake: Yep - a cookie cake - very rich! It helps to …
Taggart Lake - Jenny Lake - Mormon Row We spent three days in Grand Tetons - our photos do not do it justice - the 3 Tetons (mountains) are amazing. We had one …
Grand Prismatic Spring - Old Faithful - Bison - Junior Ranger - Mud Volcano trail - West Thumb Our second day in Yellowstone National Park. We toured the South …
We Spent a day out of the National Park and in West Yellowstone. Ropes Course - Bear Centre - Imax We started at a ropes course which the kids loved. One kid …
Hikes - Views - Bison - Geothermal springs Yellowstone - the first national park. It is celebrating its 150 year birthday this year. We saw Bison!!! Very …
Hikes - Lakes - Junior Ranger Another amazing national park but very large so a lot of driving. We were able to use the internal shuttle system which was great …
Hikes - Junior Ranger - River exploration - unintended detours Mount Rainier is in Washington State. It is a beautiful park with a snow capped peak. We visited …
Columbia River Gorge - Multnomah Falls - doughnuts It was a long drive from our campsite the other side of Portland, but we drove up the Columbia river to a …
The joys of parking a 60 foot set up - we take up approximately 7 parking spaces or a truck spot. Loving truck stops - coffee, coke, large parking spaces - …
A fort built during the fur trade. It is in Vancouver Washington State, just across the river from Portland Oregon. It was really cool, and again they have …
Fort Clatsop has a replica of the fort Lewis and Clark built to stay out the winter before continuing their travels. They have volunteers who take on the dress …
The Oregon coast is super cute! It was busy due to school holidays and a heat wave inland towards Portland. The kids made friends at the RV park we stayed at, …
Tillamook is famous for its dairy industry. We had lunch at the creamery (cheese curds, mac n cheese, cheese toasted sandwich and pizza), visited the exhibits, …
So many awesome/random foods; our set up shop lucky charms which the kids HAD to have and are still sitting in the cupboard as the taste is not as bright as the …
We bought some Kiwi Co boxes for the kids to build whilst we are in the RV - they were very excited by the robot who places dominos! They like watching Mark …
Crater Lake is breathtaking. The water is so smooth, it is hard to tell where the shore line is due to the reflection of the mountains. Yep - that is still …
We visited Turtle Bay whilst in Anderson to give the kids a break from shopping and setting up the RV. They had an exhibit of replicas of Ancient Egyptian …
We finally collected our RV!!!! It is big - 37ft, although looked small on the lot next to the 5th wheels. So glad to have stopped jumping between hotels with …
Spent two nights at Lake Tahoe - due to lack of availability of accomodation, we ended up at Tahoe City - not the prettiest part of the lake unfortunately and …
We had a day in Yosemite which we spent cycling around the valley floor and hopping on the shuttle for a 30 minute trip in air conditioning. There was a small …
Our ridiculously huge truck!! Kids were so excited!! I’m glad we added the side step, otherwise we would need to carry a step ladder to get in and out 🤦 …
San Francisco. A lot of walking plus we hired bikes on the last day and rode around to Fort Point. A little stressful with one kid wildly veering and forgetting …
2+ days of travel - exhausting but we made it! Bags packed and ready to go Qantas re-routing our travel - again - this time, whilst we stood at the check in …
Two months exploring Queensland on a road trip in our caravan - August and September 2021 Warm weather - Beaches - Campfires - Off Grid camp - Exploring! North …
A great combination
Hawaii 2019 Sun - beaches - friends - fun - Gardens - Views - Dole Plantation - Pearl Harbour - Diamond Head Crater The Big Island
Mainland USA with friends National parks - Disneyland - Yosemite - Sequoia - Kings Canyon - Joshua Tree - Grand Canyon - Zion - Tuzigoot - Monument Valley - and …
Beach - exploring - travel with grandparents
New Zealand trip Hobbiton - Redwoods tree walk - Gardens - Walks - Travel with grandparents
Disney trip in 2017: Port Orleans Riverside Hotel Kids first trip to Disney View from our hotel room at Dallas airport