Coffee Anniversary Pancake breakfast Sunny morning Left 9:25 Scenic drive through mammoth and big bridge Drove to Lamar meadow Lots of animals Short hike with buffalo Made lunch Drove back west into grand loop Stopped at Grand canyon of Yellowstone […]

We woke in the morning frozen solid. This was after waking up several times in the night freezing, trying to restart the furnace and going back to sleep thinking it’s solved, then waking up freezing again. The default mode it […]

The whole family needed to be up early today since it’s get away day.  We have a time scheduled to pickup our next vehicle at 3 pm and we need to drive all the way down Montana and down into […]

After going to sleep at 6pm the night before, I woke up at 4am ready to take on the world.  Unfortunately I wouldn’t have anyone in my family to join me in that mission for several hours so I spent […]

I was up at 6am very excited about the park today.  Today we get to see Glacier National Park!  I took my usual morning shower and Noelle and I took a chance to do something we never get to do […]

After all that adventure yesterday, I figured the girls were due a little bit of rest and relaxation.  Noelle and I enjoyed coffee while she worked on laundry and I worked on the blog.  Victoria was both sleeping and reclining […]

I woke up today around 5am feeling like I was hit by a truck (not a big truck, maybe just side swiped by a Tacoma), but nothing that a little coffee and aleve can’t fix. I used a new strategy […]

Day 2 in Banff (technically Canmore). I woke up naturally at 5am ready to start the day. Noelle followed at 6:30, and the kids at 7:30 after 15 minutes of harassment and threats. I originally planned to leave at 6am […]

Day 1 of vacation – here we go! It has been a whirlwind leading up to this vacation. The girls had soccer tournaments the last 2 weekends, then soccer tryouts Monday through Friday along with Wednesday being the last day […]

Here we go – round 2! We had an amazing time doing the RV trip to the national parks in the south / west of the U.S, but felt like we were still missing some of the big ones and […]