A great river, easy with fun stops.

Hard to spell, hard to leave - ABQ has a lot to discover and a great home base to explore New Mexico.

Arches has...well, Arches! Many wonderful trails, some harder than others, with amazing landscapes carved by wind and water.

We swam a lot and forgot to take pictures:)

A great aquarium, a really great Natural History Museum, and plenty of shopping and food.

A small, perfect gem of a park - amazing scenery, with amazing rangers and lots of hiking and climbing that ranges from accessible to impossible.

A neat little town on the edge of Acadia National Park.

So, not much REAL snow, but they made it work - we ran away for a Christmas on the slopes, and it didn't dissapoint.

The best place to see a staggering array of Staggerwings, and tour a Starship.

A great stop with a Vulcan tower, a neat aviation museum, and a big mall to walk around in on hot days.

A nifty cave in Arkansas, with a beautiful spring nearby.

Classic New England city

A wonderful surprise, a private nature preserve with wonderful trails and some amazing views.

The best rest stop on I-40 - along the Caney Fork river, just a little oasis of quiet.

A bit more spread out, and less folks around, but some killer 4WD roads and amazing vistas.

A cental spot to explore from, Canyon has the gorgeous Grand Canypn of the Yellowstone and many smaller adventures to explore.

A smaller but beautiful park in the corner of New Mexico.

A really great museum, any aviation museum with drip trays under the aircraft is a good one! They are relocating and currently closed, but check for their new home soon - it's a solid collection and was well presented.

The best park in the world - an amazing green rectangle in a city of steel and concrete

There's a great stop on the higway that lets you play in the Ocoee River and feels like you've escaped into the wild.

The City That Confuses Lasagna with Pizza But We Still Love Them.

"Take your kids to an abandoned shoe factory", they said - and they were right! This is a place to be experienced and really poked about - super fun and just dangerous enough to be fun:)

An add-on to a half marathon, a short but fun beach trip

A working historical farm, a really great and way to spend a day exploring and learning.

We jumped ship in Lemon and ran inward to fly home, through a rainforest and shredding a rental car clutch:)

Walmart money gone wild! An interesting art museum in kinda nowhere, some intriguing exhibits and a fun lights show in the woods in the winter.

Blue waters, brightly colored buildings, and a floating bridge!

A high perch above the Colorado River, Dead Horse Point is a fantastic home base for exploring the Canyonlands and Arches region.

White sand, great food, endless lines of cars on Sunday - take your time and Destin is a great escape.

A great find! Small enough to explore in a day, but a very different place - green and dim and mysterious.

It's weird to visit Disney without visiting Disney, but dinner at Morimoto was worth the weird.

Our first International Park! DLP was...fun, but a little odd. Not enough people so it felt weird, but fun and several new things coming to make Disney Studios really interesting!

Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese.

Our home in Alaska, not fancy by modern standards but just big enough to not be small, but not overpowering.

One of the Crown Jewels of the Tennessee State Parks, a great escape year round.

Seeing the family in Lakeland, including the Ball clan.

A good Mexican place, a stereotypical southern pawn shop, and silly town square decorations - Small Town South done well.

A nifty exploration point with fortifications and a small museum, along with several beaches.

Great trails, a terrible history, and a wonderful group camp area make Fort Pillow a great destination for scouts and families.

The US Army has more pilots than you think - they just go up and down a lot.

Cattle drives and big hats, Fort Worth is pretty typically Texas. I guess that's not all bad:)

A great mountain town with a wonderful public sled hill and great food ta boot.

Come for the Arch, stay for the museum, a great stop or destination along the Mississippi.

Gorgeous, amazing, ...a bit chilly:) Otters and seals and one lonesome whale, amazing views.

A quicker stop for an amazing view at sunset.

Glorious mountain views and clear cold lakes

A fantastic runaway spot in October - hotel and waterpark and not having to do anything but float and swim and slide and sleep.

Sugar sand beaches, space to get lost, and horseback raised along the shore.

Halifax is a great visit -a few good museums and a great walk around town.

I hate the freeways, I hate the weather, but holy cow did Brandi Carlise and P!nk rock that stadium.

Home to great Scouts and a wonderful overnight resting point, technically the Pizza Hut is in a neighboring town but gimme a break:)

A fun quick stop with a long (one of the world's longest!) zip-lines, a nifty museum, and a short pleasant walk through the rainforest.

Juneau was a fun stop - we saw whales, our first glacier, and found a waterfall. Good food and a fun town to poke around in.

Ketchikan was a fun stop - Lisa and the kids did sea kayaking, which was a blast, and I bobbed around on a silly bus tour which was fun for the conversation, and did see a Bald Eagle. Completely missed the stream through town like a moron, but it's a fun stop that we'd not mind hitting again.

A great camp on the banks of the South Fork River, Kia Kima has meant Camp to generations of kids from Troop 13 AND to 3 generations of Landrigans as well.

In the summer, Lake has the amazing Hotel and a string quartet before dinner, along with amazing views and quiet hikes along the lake.,

A lake with tons of islands, no cabins on shore, and great campgrounds.

A state park with great vistas and bad neighbors, but a home for two nights as we got used to the altitude and remebered what tents were.

Amazing skiing, gorgeous scenery.

More than a normal distribution of bison.

Legoland! Everything is awesome! But the age limits are real!

The last point on I-70 before we turned off South on 24, we still are curious how the steaks the gas station was prepping came out for lunch...

A controlled-release river with lots of cabins and spots to fish, a fun jaunt from Memphis and a cool break in hot weather.

One of the true great cities of the world, with culture, transportation, insipid fast food, but steeped in history and yet modern and thriving.

A nifty roadside fall in North Carolina, the trick is finding when the sun will light up the falls and not leave it in shadow.

Amazing biscuits, smack your lips jams, great eats in general and a comfy spot to eat them all in.

Lots of of trails by the firehole and Madison rivers, tons of wildlife and thermal features.

The northern entrance to YNP, Mammoth has fascinating formations, curious elk, and a year round hotel

The mother of all caves, Mammoth earns it's name in size and scope of the area above. Caving, hiking, biking, camping - it has it all!

The Twin CIties! Snake Discovery and Mall of America is about all we've seen, but we'll be back!

Amazing in daylight, magical at night, especially during the holidays.

Neat to see, if not much to do - Really stunning in the moonlight and at sunrise.

A truly expansive museum, a must see if you are a fan of flight, history, or just impressed with big cool things.

Beach, sand, water, food, and occasionally LOTS of bikers - Myrtle Beach is a classic American long weekend getaway.

A perfectly fine city, I am told.

A surprise find on the way home from a sad trip, this was a great hot day break. Right near the Oklahoma border, south of Fort Smith.

The Great Lady of the River, NOLA still delights.

There is nothing like her, the grand dame of American cities - the best pizza, great museums and Central Park.

The whale! and a lot more, but the whale wins.

Geysers, steam, pools and critters!

A great home base for a canoe trek or a fun clamping weekend- OKK has history, convenience, and style.

Easier to get to and less hassle than Destin, Orange Beach is a great quick break when you need an ocean to jump into.

A sleepy river town after the river stopped being so important, still a fun afternoon's worth of walking about.

A fun side trip on the way, this is where our Crew earned their Venturer rank. Several of our Southern kids got their first tsate of a the big western sky here, it was an eye-opener.

The Great Passage! Fascinating to watch this engineering marvel in action.

The City of Lights, that surprised us with how friendly and how accessible getting around was. Amazing food, of course, but a true living city and one we want to return to.

A quiet park to spend some time learning and wandering, wonderful rangers some interesting exhibits.

We stayed beside it, drive along it, even dipped our toes in it - the Pecos is a good companion as you explore Northern New Mexico.

Not as crazy as Destin, less crowded than Orange Beach, and sometimes you get Blue Angels!

A great museum that was hard to get to for a moment, reopened to the public again and worth a trip.

Wonderful hiking and great vistas, close to Little Rock.

A three-fold park scattered amongst the suburbs of Albuquerque, Petroglyphs offers a peak into the past with hand paintings and stark terrain.

The King of Camps, Philmont was a quick stop this time, as we make plans for a full trek in 2023.

The 'Big Lake' closest to Memphis, this is where you go to run out your ski boat and get lost for a day on the water.

Our home on the waves in 2016, she lived up to her name in style and comfort.

Get your kicks(literally, we bought shoes on the way), your picnics(several, pandemic travel special!), and your fix of kitsht and sights. The mother road of America, she didn't disappoint.

Home to the Bay of Fundy, where you can walk on the sea bottom and then watch the tides rise 50 feet.

KOA- Ok! We decided that crashing in the minihouses was better than trying to setup and teardown in teh dark, and were really pleasantly surprised. Fun spot and a great overnight.

Skiing, Mountains, and close to so many national parks, a great base for adventure.

I miss the older SF, but still a wonderful, walkable place.

A hidden cave off a dirt road in New Mexico Mountains! Adventure awaits! We climbed and crawled and carried our dog, to find a cave and an amazing view.

Seattle was our gateway to Alaska, but it's a destination on it's own. If you plan on visiting the 3 National Parks nearby, you'll want a car.

Neon lit gas stations and a chunk of the Blarney Stone, what more can you ask from a roadside stop?

Close to Memphis but having actual hills, Shelby Forest is an escape from city but not too far for a first campout.

Sitka is one of Alaska's oldest towns, with a strong Russian influence, totem poles, and eagles.

Next to BMA in Birmingham, AL, The Southern Museum of Flight has a great collection of aircraft - including a close look an a Mil-24 Hind - a great stop on the way to Atlanta.

The oldest something something whatever, it's a fun little beach town with a cool fort and lots of fun spots to poke around - worth stretching to stop at as the mid-Florida run south is DULL.

A surprise in Forest Park - wonderful traveling exhibits and amazing galleries.

A free zoo?!?!? Amazing but true, a good family trip on a budget.

A short hop away, amazing parks, Ted Drews, City Museum, and the amazing Botanic Gardens - especially around the holidays it's a wonderful escape.

A small museum dedicated to a home town hero, a neat collection of aircraft, space hardware, and memorabilia - worth a stop on the way out or back west.

The grand lady - this is not just a tourist trap, it's touchstone.

A fishing and canoeing spot in north Arkansas, a neat river and escape.

A place to pause on the way elsewhere, but a welcome waypoint

One of the best children's museums in the world, seriously. Great fun and you might learn something!

This is my favorite museum in the world - something for everyone and everything to some folks.

A great state park on the Mississippi / Alabama border, Tishomingo is a fun escape.

Rigged terrain and beautiful falls

Back to Back Uni and Disney, Because 11!

For Helena's 11th, we ran down to Uni and completed the Tradition - great to unwind and explore and she delighted in finally riding the big coasters!

A short but fun side trip next to the Intrepid, a guided missile submarine, in the vein of fascinating but horrible.

A floating museum and testament to the crews that served aboard, its' the only aircraft carrier with a Space Shuttle and Concord.

We stumbled upon this leaving Bandelier, but a serene high alpine meadow and prairie dogs and coyotes to boot.

Boondocker paradise, the Valley was a surprise find on our run down to Monument Valley.

If you visit Paris, you really should hop the train and spend some time here. Not just the palace, that's neat, disgusting and makes clear WHY the royalty lost their heads, but interesting. The town proper is delightful, amazing food and tons of fun shops.

A fun quick stop - amazing gardens and a walkable city center.

A great State Park close to Memphis, has a big open field for camping and a raised plateau for more solitary fun. Several good hikes, easy to get to, and great rangers, a good base for Cub and Troop campouts.

A silver mining town left in the lurch, a peak into the Wild West and an escape from the Reno casino scene.

A nifty museum south of Atlanta, a good stretch your legs stop and several nifty aircraft.

We hit the other one too! We need to go back, but this was super fun and a different vibe than World.

Our first trip! Laid off and no idea what the hell we were doing, it was magic!

The trip we planned before we expected Helena!

Again? But of Course!

This was a really great trip!Just before Christmas, not crazy crowds, and the Osborne Lights!

Fun and excess and joy:)

A shorter trip, but fun

Hey! Annual Pass! Why not?

A trip with Friends!

Um. Not smart, We know, but we masked up, were all boosted, and we needed the break - and we had the tickets to use, so....?

A quick escape as it's been a LONG year. Fun 3 day run and we learned NEVER to fly Spirit again!

Home base for Alex's flying lessons - an underused airport and a great training field.

The best little mountain town in teh west

Okay, admittedly I need to scan my film stuff, but so want to go back with Alex and Helena!

A smaller ship, which has been updated since - a good home base for long voyages.