A Family Travel Blog
Planning the Best California-Colorado Road Trip Last year, in the course of selling our house in Colorado Springs, we did five California-Colorado road trips (and then back again). I took a different route through Arizona, Nevada and Utah every time, visiting national parks and mountain towns, and seeing the coolest… Read More
Note: This post is sponsored by Ecolab. Wow, it’s been a long 16 months! Last March we returned from Morocco and Spain right before the world shut down and our lives became a lot quieter. Things I remember from the beginning of COVID-19: Being nervous about my wife going to the… Read More
Arches National Park Utah The past year, prompted by the COVID pandemic, we switched from international travel to domestic road tripping, and we gravitated to the National Parks. So far in 2020 and 2021 we’ve made 17 visits to eight US National Parks in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California and Colorado.… Read More
SW USA – The Best Road Trip Destinations This year, between June and October, we road tripped from California to Colorado four times and from Colorado to California five times. I spent over 200 hours in the car – with some combination of zero, one or two kids – and… Read More
This post is sponsored by Ecolab. Road Trip Tips The past few months we’ve driven over 12,000 miles and spent more than 200 hours in the car, road tripping between California and Colorado. We’ve never been a road trip family before, but with virtually no international travel options this year, and… Read More
Summer Road Trips In June I drove from California to Colorado and back with two of my kids and documented the road trip, including the COVID-specific elements, in this post. And then in July I drove half the route again, from Colorado to California, with my oldest daughter. And we… Read More
A Covid 19 USA Road Trip Like most of the world, we locked down for almost three months due to COVID-19. And we cancelled a lot of travel plans in the process, including trips to Italy, Turkey, Germany and Greece. With summer here, though, it was time to get out… Read More
