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 27: Thursday, July 25, 2019 We had planned to get out by 7 am and despite the late night, we were successful—Sean was pleased! We got on the road early for our longest travel day yet. We got out of West Yellowstone about 10 miles and came upon a little traffic jam for a black bear on the side of the road—exciting!   We drove through some heavy fog and then once the sun really came up we got to see the beauty of Montana as we drove clear across the state. We made our few gas/bathroom stops, the kids watched movies and complained minimally (yahoo!), and I got to do a little bit of work. We crossed into Wyoming for a bit and then made it to our 8 th state, South Dakota! We stopped at Qdoba for lunch, and as we were getting close to our destination we finally saw some bighorn sheep—yay, my life is complete!! We were driving right by so we made a quick stop at Jewel Cave for information. We had heard that Wind Cave closed unexpectedly the we...