We arrived in Bar Harbor Maine on a Sunday afternoon. Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island and serves as a gateway to the mountains and cliffs of neighboring Acadia National Park. I had booked us a room at the Bar Harbor Grand Hotel which placed us right in the middle of town and provided free parking which would have been hard to come by this time of…
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There is More to Wisconsin than just Air Shows!
Read moreSure, we took a roadtrip to Wisconsin for the EAA AirVenture, but there are plenty of other things to see and do in the 25th largest State. Not all of them involve cheese (or airplanes)! After taking in the Air Show on Friday, we made our way up to Green Bay to stay the night. It was raining for the majority of our drive, but by the morning, the weather…
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Two Fun Filled Days at EAA AirVenture – Oshkosh
Read moreAfter several (thousand) miles of driving, we finally succeeded in making our pilgrimage to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. To those of you who are not ‘in the know’, each year, at the end of July, over 675,000 aviation enthusiasts descend on Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Airport to attend EAA AirVenture, an airshow that is truly astonishing. Our future “pilots” had been dreaming about this event since the day after Christmas and were (at…
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Four Awesome Days in Spearfish With Kids
Read more…and a dog. At the end of July, we were fortunate enough to spend four days in Spearfish, South Dakota. To date, Spearfish ranks as one of our families favorite destinations in the United States. After driving across (all) of Utah, we finally arrived in Spearfish late on a Sunday afternoon. We quickly made ourselves at home in our VRBO with the fenced-in backyard. (A godsend on these trips!) Chuck…
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Sacramento to Spearfish via the Utah Canyons
Read moreThese days summer vacations seem to always involve a roadtrip in the minivan with Chuck. We like to think that Chuck enjoys these trips, but aren’t really sure because the moment we park the car, he busts out of the door like his life depends on it. Dogs just do not seem to share the same wanderlust that we humans do. Anyway, this summer our plan was to spend three…
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Oregon and Washington Coast: A Roadtrip With Kids
Read moreIn an effort to escape the extreme heat of Sacramento, we caught a Southwest Airlines flight to Portland, Oregon to commence an (albeit brief) roadtrip with the kids up the coast to Ocean Shores, Washington. Because Chuck does not fit in our carryon, we had to leave him behind. Poor guy. Landing just before midnight on Friday night, we collected our rental car and checked in at the Country Inn…
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Roadtrip to Texas: and the High Desert Emergency Room
Read moreChuck, our English Cream Golden Retriever, joined our family in early 2022. By summer of that year, Chuck was still a lot of work, way too much to pass off on some poor, unsuspecting family member, so we decided that the best thing to do was to take him with us on our road trip to Texas. We made it a road trip because Chuck was way too big to…
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Four Action Packed Days on the Jersey Shore
Read moreIn September of 2020, we took our final flight of the year on Southwest Airlines to Baltimore. Don’t get me started on how poor the baggage claim and rental car experience is there! Our plan was to meet up with my dad, and his extended family, and head to the Jersey Shore. The Jersey Shore encompasses 141 miles of oceanfront, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Famous for its wide beaches, boardwalks with arcades, amusement parks, and water parks, the…
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On The Road From Nashville to Pigeon Forge
Read moreIn August of 2020, defying all the health department recommendations, we got back on a Southwest 737 and made our way to Nashville. We figured that Tennessee would provide a much needed respite from California. The trip there was flawless. Our flights were on time, each flight had a bunch of open seats, and the airports were completely empty. I look back on Summer of ’20 as the “Glory Days”…