40+ days, 7,000 miles. What should we see?
Our family addiction is travel adventure. We’ve hiked on the Appalachian Trail, summitted various peaks, surfed the Outer Banks, flew in a helicopter in Charleston, para-sailed in Montauk, sipped champagne at the top of the Eiffel Tower, ate gator in New Orleans, trail rode horses in Texas, visited Graceland…twice. We are no strangers to exploration and adventure!
We're on a mission. A mission to visit all 50 states as a family. We are up to 34 states as of today. And 5 foreign countries (Ireland, England, France, Scotland, Canada). And one territory (Puerto Rico). If all goes as planned, we'll have 46 states visited by the end of summer.
The only continental states we'll be missing are Washington and Oregon. We'll hit those on our way to Hawaii next year.
My wife and I are both teachers, so we have the entire summer to wander!
I'm going to run a blog while we travel this time, so please follow along with us. I've got a general route planned, but we are always up for an adventure. If you know of a cool site that I didn't' mention, please let us know. Hey, if you've got a big yard for us to park in overnight, that's cool too. I promise to not dump my tanks in your lawn...Link to our travel blog
If you have a suggestion on what to see along our route, post it http://hkench.wixsite.com/epictrip/forum/what-should-we-seehere. By posting to my blog page, I'll get the suggestion in real time, and I won't have to log onto this forum.
Places we plan on visiting:
Geneva on the Lake Ohio. Our second time there, but I came down with pneumonia last time so i didn't really get to enjoy it. Hopefully no hospital visits this time! (knock on cyber wood)
Upper peninsula of Michigan
Duluth Minnesota
Fargo, ND
Al's Oasis - Big Buffalo
Oacoma, SD
Badlands National Park
Interior, South Dakota
Deadwood
Sturgis
Devils Tower KOA
Devils Tower, WY
Yellowstone
Salt Lake City
Moab
The 4 corners
Albuquerque
Roswell
Carlsbad
Lubbock TX
Amarillo TX
Dodge City KS
Omaha
Goshen Indiana (going to see where my camper was made!)
Chautauqua NY
Watkins Glen NY
Then home...:(
Blue= We've been there as a family
Red= Plan on visiting during this trip
Grey- Plan on visiting next year.
We're on a mission. A mission to visit all 50 states as a family. We are up to 34 states as of today. And 5 foreign countries (Ireland, England, France, Scotland, Canada). And one territory (Puerto Rico). If all goes as planned, we'll have 46 states visited by the end of summer.
The only continental states we'll be missing are Washington and Oregon. We'll hit those on our way to Hawaii next year.
My wife and I are both teachers, so we have the entire summer to wander!
I'm going to run a blog while we travel this time, so please follow along with us. I've got a general route planned, but we are always up for an adventure. If you know of a cool site that I didn't' mention, please let us know. Hey, if you've got a big yard for us to park in overnight, that's cool too. I promise to not dump my tanks in your lawn...Link to our travel blog
If you have a suggestion on what to see along our route, post it http://hkench.wixsite.com/epictrip/forum/what-should-we-seehere. By posting to my blog page, I'll get the suggestion in real time, and I won't have to log onto this forum.
Places we plan on visiting:
Geneva on the Lake Ohio. Our second time there, but I came down with pneumonia last time so i didn't really get to enjoy it. Hopefully no hospital visits this time! (knock on cyber wood)
Upper peninsula of Michigan
Duluth Minnesota
Fargo, ND
Al's Oasis - Big Buffalo
Oacoma, SD
Badlands National Park
Interior, South Dakota
Deadwood
Sturgis
Devils Tower KOA
Devils Tower, WY
Yellowstone
Salt Lake City
Moab
The 4 corners
Albuquerque
Roswell
Carlsbad
Lubbock TX
Amarillo TX
Dodge City KS
Omaha
Goshen Indiana (going to see where my camper was made!)
Chautauqua NY
Watkins Glen NY
Then home...:(
Blue= We've been there as a family
Red= Plan on visiting during this trip
Grey- Plan on visiting next year.
