Sure, 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Iceland: A Danish “Kit-Kat”
Read morecontinued from: Bring Your Own Bun (B.Y.O.B.) and You’ve Been Dusted… On Easter Sunday we had an 11AM Ice Cave Tour scheduled from the Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon car park, so we once again set off early to squeeze in a visit at Diamond Beach. The…
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Iceland: You’ve Been Dusted
Read more….continued from Bring Your Own Bun (B.Y.O.B.) We awoke early on Thursday morning to drive to our 12PM Snow Mobile Tour on Langjökull Glacier. En route we took a quick (unplanned) stop at the Kerið crater. There was a nominal charge for entry, we think,…
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Iceland: Bring Your Own Bun (B.Y.O.B.)
Read moreWith the threat of quarantining in a foreign country behind us, we decided that this was the year to dust of our passports and travel abroad. Fortunately, we had plenty of time (inside) to research a possible destination due to the unexpected “Atmospheric River” and…
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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…