Day 3 – June 30, 2019, Sunday – Canada!! Sault Ste. Marie, ON to Thunder Bay, ON We woke nice and early – and on time. Continental breakfast (where some man was angrily talking about “le Americans” and Korea in French to his breakfast companions… yah America). Off into the car, fueled up with some liters of petrol (Matt is still confused by the gas here – you have to prepay, and he has to figure out how many gallons…
Day 1 – June 28, 2019, Friday – Waupaca, WI to Marquette, MI It’s official – the Durst-Kolinski family will be the epitome of class after this trip! Yes, it’s true. We are heading to another country! Admittedly one that is only a few hours away, but after it took 4 trips to Walgreens to get a passable photo of Zoe, we are using those passports, dammit. We are big Lake Superior geeks (yes, there are geeks for everything), and…
Wednesday, February 6 As promised, today was Beach Day. The kids were up, totally stoked for this. Matt packed up beach foods(remember, Cheez-Its are appropriate for EVERY sand related situation) and we investigated the assortment of beach equipment that our Costco (trademark)rental came with. So this place may have the pool of no fun, but we were impressed with the selection of shady beach gear we found in a closet. We packed up the car with two foldable chairs that…
Saturday, February 2 – Waupaca to Kona, Hawaii In honor of our 10th wedding anniversary (which was 2 ½ years ago) and both of us turning 40, we decided to do something wild and take a trip to Hawaii! With the whole family. Mostly because we didn’t think anyone would watch the kids for an entire week. Also, we found a pretty awesome Costco deal. Matt put in lots of time for this trip, reviewing airline policies, remembering bizarre facts…
The drive back begins… Day 13 – July 12, 2018 – Thursday – Bozeman, MT to Dickinson, ND We all slept in again except for poor Matt who was sent to Granny’s Donuts for the traditional Bozeman goodbye donuts. We all feasted on them along with more of the unhealthy continental breakfast (for god’s sake, even PINEDALE had a selection of fruit at their continental breakfast; Bozeman had a couple bananas and that was the only thing that was remotely…
Apparently we got lazy on vacation and missed a bunch of stuff we should have written on the day we went to the hot springs… if you are craving more pics of hot springs, check out Part 3 again! Or not, it’s cool. We have no way of knowing. Day 10 – July 9, 2018 – Monday – Gardiner, MT to Bozeman, MT It was a restless night. We found out what happens when Zoe drinks 32 gallons of water…
Day 7 – July 6, 2018 – Friday – Gardiner, MT and BOTG We all stayed up a bit too late in our cozy cabin last night, and decided today would be a lazy day. Well, relatively. We had a hearty breakfast of cereal, and loaded up the car for treasure hunting!! So, the scoop is that a millionaire named Forrest Fenn hid a treasure chest full of gold nuggets and jewelry in the Rocky Mountains TEN years ago (worth…
Day 4 – Tuesday, July 3, 2018 – Tuesday – Estes Park, CO Well, the Fourth of July crowds are reaching a fevered peak here in the village. We slept in until 7:00 today but couldn’t wait any longer to get out of bed and have fun! (Well, Matt could have slept more). We were ready and on the road by 7:30 am. Our next door motel neighbors were loading stuff as quickly into their car as they could. We…
Day 1 – Saturday – June 30, 2018 – Waupaca WI to Lincoln, NE I know, right?? NEBRASKA? Where in the world is the Durst-Kolinski family going this year? Well, the plan is to journey to Rocky Mountain National Park, then up to Yellowstone National Park, then back home. Every year we try to add on something new. And the votes are in – last year we flew and it just didn’t have the feeling of the out west trip…
August 29, 2017 – Tuesday – Tacoma/Seattle Well, we cancelled the idea of a boat ride after we found out we had to reserve our sandwich choices for the boat ride by 3 pm the day before. We aren’t THAT organized, and dammit, we want food (including some kind of blueberry buckle that is offered) on our boat ride. So we reserved for tomorrow afternoon instead. At least the kids burst into our room at some ungodly hour demanding we…