Adventure for the Long Run

Hom e Sweet Home...Park Sweet Park Well, now that we’ve been home a week, and I caught up on all the posts from our trip, I wanted to put together a summary post that attempts to capture the amazingness of the experience we had. I am writing this post over some wine that I bought while we were visiting Mount Rushmore 😊 Before last summer, I had never traveled in an RV and really had not had a great interest in visiting our national parks. I am 110% on board with RV and national parks life at this point—it has truly changed my outlook on vacationing and life! I have to say much of my positive experience and feelings are due to my amazing husband and his vision, planning, and execution of two trips of a lifetime—and many more to come! We are very fortunate that our chosen careers allowed for this type of trip and we do not for a minute take that for granted. We also hope that our kids are having unique and meaningful life experiences that will shape who they become and h...

Day 23: Sunday, July 21, 2019 We got up and organized to leave by doing our pull-down chores inside and outside the RV. The kids got up, dressed, and headed over to wake up the Vandy boys. They were hard to get out of bed, but they finally did and we all went to the park and had donuts and juice under the pavilion while pack up was still happening at the cabin. We reluctantly said our goodbyes and got on the road, only to stop at the same gas station 10 miles down the road, haha! We made our way through the great state of Montana and the scenery was beautiful all along the route. We made a few stops along the way for gas and rest rooms, the most exciting stop being at the Clearwater rest area where we found two Montana kindness rocks!! It was such a lovely surprise and so timely that Tanya had just been telling us about the Casper Rocks project that they do in their town. Kinsey was ecstatic to find the first one and then Barrett spotted another. We took photos and the...