July 3 was another long day of driving from Salt Lake City, UT KOA to Ami's Acres near Glenwood Srpings, CO. This leg was another part of our push to make the Vail, CO area for the 4th of July. Arriving a day early to the area, we were so thankful that that Ami's Acres … Continue reading River Surf – Glenwood Springs, CO →

Moving from one RV park to another we would always set a specific time in the morning to leave. Out of 18 of those attempts we only succeeded 2 or 3 times! With that said, July 2nd was one of them! This was going to be one of our longest days in the car as … Continue reading Bonneville Salt Flats →

A route change allowed us to spend one night near Lake Tahoe before the big push to Colorado. The drive from the Yosemite area to Lake Tahoe had some great views. Excellent scenic overlook we had all to ourselves for lunch. We had several reference books to teach the kids, and ourselves, about each state. … Continue reading Lake Tahoe →

Yosemite National Park was another highlight of the trip and somewhere we wished we had more time to explore. Since we booked at the last minute we stayed at Yosemite Pines RV which is 30-40 minutes away from Yosemite's entrance. It wasn't a bad drive but you have to add another 30 from the Yosemite … Continue reading Yosemite 6/30 →

Today was an exciting day as we would finally turn east for the first time in 22 days. Some of the kids were a little homesick so our direction change was comforting even though we were still 11 days and 2,800 miles from NC. This ended up being one of our rougher days on the … Continue reading Big Basin Redwoods State Park →

The real surf is in the winter but we decided to give it a try. Excellent surf rentals just down the road from the campsite and we were good to go. We will try to hunt down more pictures as the family joined Charlie and I at the beach later that day. The funny things … Continue reading Surfing Manresa State Beach →

Windy and a little cool but we had a great day visiting San Francisco. A little tricky parking our vehicle but we managed to find a spot after looking for 45 minutes. We are too tall for most parking decks and too large in general for the pay for the day lots where they want … Continue reading San Francisco, CA →

Cannery Row has an interesting history of being one of the top two world producers of sardines beginning in the late 1800s. They fished them at night with massive nets 1/4 mile long and 200 deep. The nets were so effective that they were called wolf of the sea and eventually led to over fishing … Continue reading Sardine Capital Cannery Row 6/26 →

Today we took an entire day to drive from San Simeon beach up to our next campsite that was half way between Santa Cruz and Monterey. While backing in to San Simeon last night a local said don't miss the moon rocks on the beach. We are not sure what moon rocks are but the … Continue reading Driving Hwy 1 – June 25 →

We passed on going south to LA because we needed a slow day so we headed over to Refugio Beach, CA. At little gloomy from the June fog but we still enjoyed hanging out together. Thankfully this beach was just minutes from our campsite more area to play than El Cap beach. Here we were … Continue reading Refugio Beach CA – June 24 →