***Traveling out west*** Need Suggestions
Hi- We have plans to take a two-week trip from Cincinnati out to Grand Tetons and Yellowstone next summer. We have a 31' travel trailer, 4 kids, 2 adults, and a dog... and an extended cab 2001 Chevro...
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My wife was a Campfire Leader and learned early on that a lot of kids in her 1971 VW Type II required activities for the animals in the back. Snacks, comic books and the like were planned out in advanced and varied day to day when we started camping with our girls at 4 and 5 years old.
I kind of figure you've got that planned out as you already are RVers.
We have driven our type A, bought and towed a Sidekick with the A's, rented a car when we didn't have the Sidekick and flown and rented a Class C when transit time was long and overall time short. All four are great.
Camping is always doable, and there almost always seem to be sites big enough. Breaking camp every day is not bad but just hopping in your TV and taking off is better. The distances from West Yellowstone are not bad, I'm not familiar with other out of the park campgrounds.
For the most part, there is more than one route to a destination or POIs within parks as well as NPS buses so you can vary on a daily basis.
Are DGKs were raised as Free Range Kids, all within reason of course. We walk the campground roads in the morning with coffee in hand and evening with a cool one. We do this to try and see the kids that are out playing and TRY TO MEET PARENTS. We both enjoy making new friends as or DGKs call it. They carry FSRs and we're always in touch in case of the inevitable emergency. And yes we've had those. Never caused by interaction with other campers, always one of them did something stupid. We really miss those trip but one is a HS Senior and the other just graduated from HS and they have real lives and love interests.
We felt family camping was a release from the daily grind of school and chores, our kids and the DGKs got a lot of say regarding what we did and where we went. It was their vacation too, we just had limits and wanted the trip to be educational by osmosis. Ten or fifteen years out from camping with the girls, they learned the traveling we did with them gave them a background traveling that far exceeded the knowledge their friends had and still at 50 years out remember trips and activities we experienced.
Just keep doing it.
I kind of figure you've got that planned out as you already are RVers.
We have driven our type A, bought and towed a Sidekick with the A's, rented a car when we didn't have the Sidekick and flown and rented a Class C when transit time was long and overall time short. All four are great.
Camping is always doable, and there almost always seem to be sites big enough. Breaking camp every day is not bad but just hopping in your TV and taking off is better. The distances from West Yellowstone are not bad, I'm not familiar with other out of the park campgrounds.
For the most part, there is more than one route to a destination or POIs within parks as well as NPS buses so you can vary on a daily basis.
Are DGKs were raised as Free Range Kids, all within reason of course. We walk the campground roads in the morning with coffee in hand and evening with a cool one. We do this to try and see the kids that are out playing and TRY TO MEET PARENTS. We both enjoy making new friends as or DGKs call it. They carry FSRs and we're always in touch in case of the inevitable emergency. And yes we've had those. Never caused by interaction with other campers, always one of them did something stupid. We really miss those trip but one is a HS Senior and the other just graduated from HS and they have real lives and love interests.
We felt family camping was a release from the daily grind of school and chores, our kids and the DGKs got a lot of say regarding what we did and where we went. It was their vacation too, we just had limits and wanted the trip to be educational by osmosis. Ten or fifteen years out from camping with the girls, they learned the traveling we did with them gave them a background traveling that far exceeded the knowledge their friends had and still at 50 years out remember trips and activities we experienced.
Just keep doing it.
