One benefit of living close to a national park is that the likelihood of your children taking a field trip to the park is high. Both my kids have visited Saguaro National Park with their classes and I was fortunate to attend as a chaperone both times. School field trips are some of my favorite […]
I do not need any encouragement to visit the national parks – what I need is more paid time off so that I can travel more. My national park bucket list is so long and I am constantly adding to it.
If you have been following me for any length of time you may have noticed that we enjoy getting in the car and seeing where the road takes us.
To read about the entire road trip see part 1, 2 and 3. The more we travel the more we realize the importance of being flexible and being willing to stray from the agenda. If the kids want to spend the afternoon playing at the base of a waterfall it’s OK to let go of the activity we have scheduled […]
For the complete trip be sure to read parts 1, 2 and 4. While in the Black Hills we ventured out to three national parks not terribly far from where we were staying.
To read about the entire road trip be sure to read Part 1, 3, and 4. After Great Sand Dunes National Park we headed to the Black Hills for a week of fun. Keeping with our lunch in parks theme we stopped at Library Park in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Oh my word…this is a gorgeous town! Or at […]
On each of our trips my favorite parts almost always are not the reason why we are on the trip. That was once again the case on our most recent road trip. Our destination for this trip was South Dakota and the trip centered around Mount Rushmore. In looking for a place to stay about […]
Our weekend consisted of camping, fishing, flying kites and playing with worms. Life doesn’t get much better than that in my opinion.
Roper Lake is in southeast Arizona near Safford. I was really impressed with Roper Lake. Roper has RV sites, camp sites and even cabins.
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is near Wupatki National Monument just outside of Flagstaff, AZ. It is estimated that Sunset Crater last erupted sometime between 1080 and 1100.