Trip Report: The Perfect Family Trip!
EDIT: I wanted to add this link here at the beginning. Ragusa's Summer 2014 Trailer Hello friends! We have been home for two months, but I am just now feeling like getting to the trip repo...
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michigansandzilla, so right. I'm betting that most of our stories in 10 years will have little to do with the grandest part of each park, and more to do with the funny thing that happened in the laundry, or that time Dad farted and we all had to leave the trailer. ;)
If you don't appreciate all the little things that go right and wrong, family life could get much more difficult, couldn't it?!?
There's been a few comments from folks that haven't or feel they may not get an opportunity to get out west. My perspective has changed an awful lot since going this summer. I remember commenting to my wife when we were under 2 weeks and finishing up at Zion. I said that we could head home right then and the trip would have already been a tremendous success! Fortunately, we were only a third through at that point. But my point is that I got caught up believing that doing a 2 week "speed" trip was not worth it, and therefore waited all these years to have a huge block of time.
Now, I will preach to take whatever time you have and cram it in! Sure, most on this forum will tell you that you're crazy and it is too much driving for anyone to enjoy. But most of them don't have time constraints. For us, I wish we had been taking the two week speed trip over the years. For a southern boy, being out west felt like a part of my life had been missing. Like I have been seeing the world with blinders on and didn't know it. Point is, I would get in the truck tomorrow and drive 3 days to have 5-6 there and 3 days getting back. Ideal, no. Lifetime memories, yes.
Glenn Canyon pics coming later today!
If you don't appreciate all the little things that go right and wrong, family life could get much more difficult, couldn't it?!?
There's been a few comments from folks that haven't or feel they may not get an opportunity to get out west. My perspective has changed an awful lot since going this summer. I remember commenting to my wife when we were under 2 weeks and finishing up at Zion. I said that we could head home right then and the trip would have already been a tremendous success! Fortunately, we were only a third through at that point. But my point is that I got caught up believing that doing a 2 week "speed" trip was not worth it, and therefore waited all these years to have a huge block of time.
Now, I will preach to take whatever time you have and cram it in! Sure, most on this forum will tell you that you're crazy and it is too much driving for anyone to enjoy. But most of them don't have time constraints. For us, I wish we had been taking the two week speed trip over the years. For a southern boy, being out west felt like a part of my life had been missing. Like I have been seeing the world with blinders on and didn't know it. Point is, I would get in the truck tomorrow and drive 3 days to have 5-6 there and 3 days getting back. Ideal, no. Lifetime memories, yes.
Glenn Canyon pics coming later today!