Month: May 2018

Safety and Maps

For as complex as our road trips appear, we have one very simple rule that guides our days, specifically our hikes. If everyone is safe and having fun, we keep going. If not, we turn around. Of course there have been a few times when we weren’t in safe situations, by no fault of our […]

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The Way

This year’s trip will take us to the Southwest with stops throughout New Mexico and Arizona plus Southern Utah and Western & Central Colorado. Road Trip 2018 on Roadtrippers !function(d,l,h,w,id){var a = d.getElementById(id);var ifr = d.createElement(“iframe”);ifr.src = l;ifr.height = h;ifr.width = w; ifr.scrolling = “no”; a.parentNode.insertBefore(ifr, a);a.parentNode.removeChild(a);}(document,”https://roadtrippers.com/embedded/trips/16816545″,300,480,”embed-16816545″); This was a tough trip to plan since […]

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It’s Getting Hot in Here

In yesterday’s Pretrip Interview post I mentioned that the thing I’m most afraid of for this trip is the heat. What we left out of that post was that we were writing it from our neighborhood bar since it is air conditioned and our house isn’t. It’s been so hot here lately that the hour […]

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Getting Ready for rtxviii

5 1/2 days until school is done, 11 days until we leave, a few days until we pack our duffle bags and prepare our car entertainment. We recently took a trip to Costco and set up the packing table. Today we went to Target. We are just about ready to leave. This morning we woke […]

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THE Target Trip

It is a scortching 95 degrees today. Not a huge deal, except when we had to replace our furnace last summer we found out our central air unit was nearly original to the house and didn’t actually work either. We made the decision to save a few grand and not replace the AC. We aren’t […]

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Pretrip Interview

What car activity are you most looking forward to? z: I am most looking forward to audiobooks and playing car games like rubberneckers with Ellie. Z: When driving singing along with the Road Trip playlist. I think I might be the only family member who sings along to every song, but that’s really the only […]

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T minus 23 days

It is almost time. The countdown is so close to wrapping up. However, to shift my thoughts from regular daily life to summer life is so difficult. I have spent so little time actually thinking about the trip, but when I do my heart seems to skip a beat and I am briefly overcome with […]

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