View from the South Rim Trail
Arizona and New Mexico Itinerary
The Grand Canyon should be on every family's bucket list. And when you find yourself out there, you might as well take advantage of seeing other nearby national parks and…
California Itinerary – Including Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Kings Canyon & Sequoia National Parks
An itinerary of California starting in LA and exploring several National Parks including Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia.
Lots of tours that day
College Visit Trip to the Mid-Atlantic Region
We did our first college visit trip to the Mid-Atlantic region over our spring break. What made it so flexible was that we drove. Yes – it was long, but we covered a lot of ground. Below is our itinerary with links to the places we visited. For details about visiting New York – see my post https://findingfamilyadventures.com/2016/03/27/trip-report-new-york-city/. This will give you links to more posts I wrote about NYC in 2016. (more…)
Between Alpine and Terlingua
Big Bend National Park, TX Itinerary
After reading Texas Monthly for years, I’ve always wanted to visit Big Bend National Park in Texas. But it is hard to get to – and that may be the appeal for many. In fact, its one of the least visited of the National Parks.
Big Bend is located far west Texas – the part that’s under New Mexico. The park offers a place to hike, bike, fish, camp, whatever you want and it’s absolutely beautiful. But it’s 653 miles from Houston where we go to visit family. We chose to add a few days after Christmas and make the drive from Houston.
We found a reasonable room at Terlingua Ranch Lodge. Although Terlingua sits three miles from one of the park entrances, the ranch was about 30 minutes north of the park. That seems far, but in reality it was one of the closer places to stay as Alpine is an hour and a half (83 miles) and Marfa is 2 hours from the park. (more…)