Day 11 – Friday, June 17, 2022 – Cortez, CO to Alamosa, CO The journey slowly east home has begun! Today we planned to spend the morning at Mesa Verde National Park, right outside of Cortez, then drive 3-4 hours east to Alamosa. Spend a couple nights there, then Lincoln, NE (UGGHHHH), then home! We bounded up and out of bed (well, Zoe was curled in a ball saying no, but that’s her baseline morning wake up), and we went…
Day 8 – Tuesday, June 14, 2022 – Kanab, UT to Flagstaff, AZ We are so tired. Never do this. We saw a sign for Los Angeles and couldn’t even get excited about that. At least we are scoping out the parks, but this is getting exhausting. Matt is the consummate driver, and the kids voted against Sarah driving (geez….). We leisurely awakened, had some sketchy continental breakfast (only fruit available: old apples) and loaded up the car for the drive. …
Day 5 – Saturday, June 11, 2022 – Moab, UT So much for rolling out of bed, bright eyed and bushy tailed. Matt turned off the 6:05 am alarm and we blearily staggered out of bed at 6:45 am. Oh well, so much for our early departure. We dined again on the continental breakfast, which again was excellent – ate outside and noted that it felt warmer than yesterday. We weren’t wrong. The new theory is – take the time…
Day 1 – Tuesday, June 7, 2022 – Waupaca, WI to Des Moines, IA Well hello, strangers and friends! (The two people who read this blog, whatever). The Durst-Kolinski family is off on the (occasionally) annual road trip we take in the summer. Finally, this is the year we are heading somewhere besides the northern tier of the US. Yes, tis true, we are heading to the Southwest. We are a tad bit nervous – Sarah has never been southwest…
Day 10 Sunday, August 1, 2021 – Cody, WY to Custer, SD We all awoke super early, threw our packed stuff in the car, said good bye to the sweetest AirBnB ever, and we were off! We zoomed into Cody which was creepily empty (later we realized it was probably church day for everyone), and hit up Beta Coffeehouse for some coffee and muffins – good service and good coffee. FINALLY. It just took 5 days to find somewhere decent….
Day 6 Wednesday, July 28, 2021 – Cody, WY Well, we haven’t run away screaming from Wyoming yet. ha! We awakened and the decision had been made by Sarah and Matt – yes, we were going back to Yellowstone. Like we can stay away. Sarah found some ridiculous hike rated “difficult” that essentially was just ascending to the summit of a 10k elevation mountain. NOTE: we are definitely not acclimated to the 5k elevation here in Cody. ALSO NOTE: Zoe…
Day 1 Friday, July 23, 2021 – Waupaca, WI to Munising, MI And it’s on! Hello again, dear friends, family, lurkers, and our children (SIGH, they figured out the existence of this blog, sorry for the reduced cursing and PG13 content change). Last year, we thought about maybe doing a road trip this year and hitting all of the stuff we’ve deliberately not done on road trips in the past, due to having better things to do. This year, as…
Day 5 – Thursday, July 2, 2020 Duluth, MN to Dickinson, ND We are so sorry that this such a boring trip blog. We can’t do anything – except watch the news and watch the COVID cases tick up. That being said, we are trying to spend some family time together and go to the last place in the US we think people would want to go: Teddy Roosevelt National Park. Hell, every year we take a photo, use the…
Day 1 – Sunday, June 28, 2020 Waupaca WI to Duluth, MN Hello friends! Wow, the world has changed a bit since our last adventure, hasn’t it? We are happy to report all of us in our family are healthy right now. The effects of being trapped together with no social interaction in 3-4 months? Well, physically healthy, at least. We hadn’t left a 25 minute radius of Waupaca since our ill-fated St Louis spring break trip (ended early and…
Day 5 – February 11, 2020 – Tuesday Another beautiful day in paradise! It has rained here more than we ever remember. We all slept in a bit, and Matt and Sarah even went on a run down to the Petroglyph park, followed by eggs and avocado toast. Perfect start to the day. Today we were going to head over the Waipio Valley – located on the extreme northeastern side of the island, it is where the Hawaiian kings lived…