garyhaupt wrote:
Hey..dude...this time you guys have to travel is a gift..unwrap it slowly. I don't expect you to not do your planning and electronic wizardry, but, in the end....you will wish you had.
Get off the interstates...go the slow way. Every little town has a city park..you can stop there. I mean..Moab was just a name, there is so much to experience just hangin out in Little America. Trust me...I have done it and continue to do so. Small town rodeos, race tracks, fairs, pie eatin from farmer markets.
Another suggestion then...start a Blog...this is kind of a way to involve everyone in the adventure. Take lots of pix..every day..upload to the Blog...heck, have a bunch of Blogs. One for each person if you like..but a joint Blog has an energy. You can do and upload kids video and music and all kinds of neat..time consuming...stuff.
For what it's worth.
Gary Haupt
Canada
Good advice. Our last road trip was before we had the kids and at the time we had a single hiking gps connecter to a laptop with streets&trips. We stopped at the first tourism info center after every new state and picked up a couple brochures and went from there. Moab is just a general direction but the plan is to detour and adjust every day :) The phone is our map and our guarantee that we can park soon when the kids had enough driving.
We definitely want to see all the small attractions on the way. The less tourist-y the better for us. I'd rather eat from the pastry across the park at a small village than see the statue of liberty or some other tourist trap.
I'm not sure about the blog. Probably a good idea to do it for ourselves as a souvenir photo album but after a few days I think friends and family would not see the point as we are living it; not them. We'll try it.
