Scenic Byway 12 is awesome if you are into scenery and landscape. If you need lots of excitement, I would say take the interstate, but we later found that to be pretty boring. Going this way to get to Capitol Reef National Park, we were able to drive through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. When we... Continue Reading →

***Due to COVID-19 related travel restrictions, we are delaying posting. These Utah and later posts are a month or so behind.*** Heading out Scenic Byway 12, the elevation rises and the temperatures drop. It was all snow covered mountains on our way to Bryce Canyon. We drove in and out of the Dixie National Forest.... Continue Reading →

Utah has kind of been like South Dakota for us, in the sense that we liked it more than we thought we were going to. I think it’s due again to the various changes in scenery, topography, etc. It is also home to what’s called “The Mighty Five.” The Mighty Five is made up of... Continue Reading →

“The 1” is said to be one of the prettiest drives in North America; with beautiful rolling hills on one side and the massive Pacific Ocean on the other. Definitely pretty - but prettiest? That’s debatable. This post looks a little long but it is mostly just pictures. Not too much to read. Since we... Continue Reading →

Really state #40?!?! I can’t believe that we have visited 40 out of 50 states already. Trevor and I are no strangers to Nevada. We have been several times and we actually eloped to Las Vegas 16 1/2 years ago. The whole fam visited with Nini and Poppy a couple of years ago when we... Continue Reading →

Aloha from Hawaii! We actually made it. We used some leftover sky miles for a couple tickets and away we flew. Trev and I were up at 1:30am (couldn’t sleep) and the kids were up before 3am so we could catch our flight. They are such great travelers. They were so excited, they didn’t mind... Continue Reading →

We were pretty excited about crossing into California. It’s one of the states that none of us had ever been to. So it’s pretty cool for all of us to see it together for the first time. Our first stop was for lunch and we chose Jack in the Box. Okay, so we don’t normally... Continue Reading →

Before we went hugging cacti, we saw billboards for The Thing. You can’t drive out I-10 without seeing their billboards. I had seen information about this roadside stop before we left home but it was information and pictures before the new museum opened. We were blown away with the professional look of this quirky “museum”... Continue Reading →

New Mexico is called the Land of Enchantment. I have to say, it didn’t start out looking so enchanting when we crossed over the state line but there was plenty of enchanting once we arrived at our first stop. I wasn’t sure what to expect at Carlsbad. We have been to several caverns around the... Continue Reading →

It was a looooonnnnggg drive from San Antiono. Big Bend National Park is in Southwest Texas and it’s not close to anything! It is a very large park and very spread out. If you’re looking for solitude, trust me, you can find it here. So I took lots of scenery pictures. The sun felt so... Continue Reading →