Seeing the World One School Vacation at a Time
We woke up early in West Yellowstone to head into our Yellowstone adventure. I skipped breakfast to get an extra half-hour or so of sleep while everyone else ate at the hotel. Worth it. I was happy with my granola bar. We weren't far from the gate to the National Park. After driving in the… Continue reading “Is That An Animal or a Rock? It’s a Rock.”
We slept in a bit before leaving our Fairfield Inn in Twin Falls, Idaho. After leaving that town, we were in the farm belt of America, passing fields and fields of what I assumed were potato crops. An Idaho license plate reads, "Scenic Idaho: Famous Potatoes." So basically I drove through Idaho past many celebrities.… Continue reading The Day We Ate Idaho
Today was, for the most part, a long driving day through the vast wasteland of Nevada, but first we had a few stops to start the day. First, we visited Mono Lake, a lake outside of Yosemite National Park famous for alkaline waters that create unusual rock formations known as tufas. We went to their… Continue reading Nevada: Dirt, Mountains, and the Occasional Casino
Mom, Stacey and Grampa started their day by sitting on the porch at our hotel looking for deer. They spotted one and woke me up to come see it, but it was gone by the time I got there. That deer was a jerk. After we were all dressed and ready, we zipped through the… Continue reading The Day We All Got Carsick
Alternate Title: The day we took the minivan offroading Alternate Title 2: The day we ruined the rental car Alternate Title 3: How are you enjoying your rest day, Memere? As you can probably see, some stuff went down today. We started the day off pretty mildly. We went to Pop's Restaurant for breakfast. Yep,… Continue reading …And Then There Were Cows
Early this morning, Auntie Brenda, Justin and Owen left for home in Virginia, leaving six of us to continue on our journey. From this point on, our trip was less about seeing the big cities of California and seeing the natural wonders of the western US. Today marked the start of our journey to Yosemite… Continue reading The Hotel That’s Stuck in the 70s
This was the day that we truly did conquer San Francisco. All of those cool famous places in the city? Saw em. Those things people say you have to do when you go there? Did em. How, might you ask? Well, the hop-on, hop-off tourist bus was a really big help. All 9 of us… Continue reading The Day We Conquered San Francisco
Today was our first day in San Francisco. We started our day by waking up early and heading out to the pier for our tour of the notorious Alcatraz. This was a part of our journey that I had been excited for, especially since watching Escape From Alcatraz. It's like the Shawshank Redemption but real!… Continue reading The Day Mom, Grampa and I Got Some Exercise
Today was an early morning. We had places to go and things to see, including the town or Harmony California, population: 18. We passed that en route. From Santa Maria we drove to Hearst Castle, the former home of William Randolph Hearst, the politician and yellow journalist of the turn of the century. He had… Continue reading “This Golf Ball Has Touched Pebble Beach”
We had planned to spend only one day in LA, so we had to spend our time wisely. We started with a short drive from Rodondo Beach to Los Angeles, passing through some nice neighborhoods and some not so nice. We drove past Marina Del Rey, which seemed pretty nice. Our first pit stop of… Continue reading Urban Safari in LA
