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Over the last couple years we have started to make a stronger effort to visit every National Park, Monument, and Memorial near where we are traveling (mostly to get the sweet Junior Ranger Badges). When we traveled through this area in previous years we always skipped the Devil's Tower because we fe...

Rapid City, South Dakota Our next stopping point was Rapid City, South Dakota. We had stayed here a couple years previous at the KOA, but this time decided to try out Rushmore Shadows RV Resort, which is halfway between Rapid City proper and Keystone. This location turned out to be a great decisi...

Our first National Park hike with our new baby! Cool cliff-side hikingBeautiful views and caves A fun "ladder" climb

After leaving Sioux Falls, we decided to try out our first "real" boondocking experience based on advice from a few different folks we met at our campground and online - Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, just outside of Badlands National Park, South of Wall, South Dakota. We'd heard good things, and ...

After leaving Sioux City, we drove North about an hour towards Sioux Falls. Here, we finished up a lot of busy-work tasks related to our move, including finalizing our domicile stuff, getting the final paperwork and payments in place for vehicle registrations, and getting our South Dakota driver's l...

We finally are ready to move into the RV! First, we finished selling off the rest of our "not needed" stuff. The last of our non-RV items we took to my wife's dad's farm. Moving day Our first stay was at a KOA in Lawrence Kansas. We to...

Wow, what a crazy (almost) first half of 2020!Boys' Ski Trip to Breckenridge, COJanuary 2020 In January, we took our yearly "boys" trip, and included myoldest son (and had a fantastic time, despite a couple of the guys getting sick!).View from highest open hikable te...

As our family continues to get older (and grow with baby #3 on the way), we decided that, after 4 wonderful years of travel, it was time to part ways with our lovely Airstream and get a new rig (stay tuned for a future blog post about which rig we ended up getting). With the additions we made to her...

We sadly left beautiful Zion and made a short trip South to the Grand Canyon - the South Rim of the Grand Canyon more specifically. We would have stayed at the North Rim, but they are still closed for the season. The scenery along the way was beautiful, and extremely remote! Stopping to go to t...

Zion has to be in our top 2 favorite parks (it's currently between here and Glacier). It is amazingly beautiful, inspiring, and a blast to roam through. My wife first visited Zion over 4 years ago on a solo trip. We then came back as a family the following Spring (our first real trip in Stella, pre-...