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Road Trip
Who?- Me, Brandy My ds(14), ds(13), dd(11), ds(9), ds(6), plus my brother(25).
What?- A 45 day long road trip covering 15 states, 15 national parks, & 2 state parks.
When? - May 20th – July 3rd
Where? - Out West (details to come)
Why? - This is part of my effort to get my ds to all 50 states before HS graduation.
How? – Driving and camping
This trip has been a long time coming… The plans are all in place and the reservations are all made.
We will be covering 15 states:: Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, and Georgia.
We will be covering 15 national parks:: Hot Springs NP, Guadalupe Mountains NP, Carlsbad Caverns NP, Petrified Forest NP (Painted Desert), Grand Canyon NP (north and south rim), Zion NP, Bryce Canyon NP, Capital Reef NP, Canyonlands NP, Arches NP, Mesa Verde NP, Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP, Great Sand Dunes NP, Rocky Mountains NP, and Mammoth Cave NP.
We will also be covering 2 state parks:: Palo Duro Canyon State Park and Ft. Massic State Park.
We will be camping in all most all of these parks. We will also be staying in some major cities such as Las Vegas, Memphis, and St. Louis among a few.
We have a lot of great activities planned and I am truly looking forward to this trip. I hope to be able to do somewhat “live” updates along the trip, as I think it will be too much to do a TR after the trip. I hope to download pictures regularly and make this a picture heavy TR. There will be stretches of time during the middle of the trip where we may not have internet service, but I still think I will have access to keep this report at least semi-live, but perhaps a little delayed at times…
I’m not going to try to go over every last detail of the trip beforehand, as it will simply be too long… We leave in 9 days and I have not packed a lick. Today was my last day of work for the school year, so now I am able to focus on getting ready for the trip…
I hope you all enjoy this trip report, and I hope I am able to keep it mostly current throughout the trip with both pictures and our goings on…
Sounds amazing! Averages out to about 3-days per state. Are you in an RV or tent camping? Have a fantastic time! Will be looking forward to the updates.
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Sounds amazing! Averages out to about 3-days per state. Are you in an RV or tent camping? Have a fantastic time! Will be looking forward to the updates.
We are tent camping. We briefly looked into renting an RV way back but the cost was too much not too mention the logistics of driving it around/parking.... So, tent camping it is! Yesterday my dad found a luggage carrier at Good Will for $10 that can be attached to my existing luggage rack, so hopefully we can fit most of our camping gear to that and put it on top of the roof....
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Wow! Sounds like a wonderful family vacation. Have fun!
Thanks!
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Amazing! Wave as you go through IL, ok?
Sure thing!
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Sounds like an amazing trip Brandy! Can't wait to hear all about it!
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Wow! What a trip. I am jealous of all the gorgeous scenery you will be seeing, wonderful parks to explore, wildlife sightings and most of all having the ability to go for so long!
Wow! What a trip. I am jealous of all the gorgeous scenery you will be seeing, wonderful parks to explore, wildlife sightings and most of all having the ability to go for so long!
Thanks, I'm excited! And I don't know if you remember, but you provided me with a lot of great info/insight back when I was planning this thing; thanks!
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Sounds like you have an amazing trip planned!!!
I think so too!
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Oh wow that sounds like quite the adventure!!! Take tons and tons of pictures!
Definately putting the camera(s) to good use
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Checking in here! Can't wait to hear about it and see it.
Thanks!
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Oh my goodness, what an amazing adventure you're going to have. I can't wait to hear all about it.
Thanks!
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That sounds awesome! What an adventure! And what a great goal! I might have to borrow that goal from you for DD.
Thanks! In trying to make it to all the states; I think Hawaii will prove the most difficult/expensive- similar to your troubles that I've been reading over in your Aloha turns Germany TR-- and I look forward to reading about your Germany adventures....
Yesterday we did a "practice pack" where we packed up everything going on the trip and loaded it all in the van. I've been worrying about how we would fit everything (7 people's belongings/45 days worth of stuff/camping gear) in the van. Well, it fits but we look worse than the Beverly Hillbillies did when they moved to Beverly Hills. After all that work, we unloaded the van and now a big pile sits in my living room corner... and for the most part I plan to leave it right there until we re-load it Sunday morning. We leave in 5 days and at this point I feel mostly ready; I still have a few items to pick up and a few bags I need to re-pack or add things too.... but that will be easy peasy... My kids have awards assemblies this whole week leading up to their last day, Friday so I know the time will fly by.... Thanks for following along everyone!
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Can't wait to hear all about it! 
. We briefly looked into renting an RV way back but the cost was too much not too mention the logistics of driving it around/parking.... So, tent camping it is! Yesterday my dad found a luggage carrier at Good Will for $10 that can be attached to my existing luggage rack, so hopefully we can fit most of our camping gear to that and put it on top of the roof....
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I can't wait to hear all about it. 
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