East Coast Adventure: Sweet, Sweet North Carolina

Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing bits and pieces of our epic road trip to the east coast. It was 13 days filled with joy, sibling fights, a bazillion rest stops, one major meltdown on the side of I-10, great memories and lots of hugs with awesome people. Oh, and we saw a…

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Texas Forever Vacation: History at Its Center

Vacation is finally blogged! You can read all about our travels out west, then south and back central. Texas forever, y’all. —- West and south Texas were so, so good to us, but we were itching to get close to home. Well, that and eat some good BBQ while teaching the kids about Texas history.…

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Texas Forever Vacation: Some Like it South!

Vacation is finally blogged! You can read all about our travels out west, then south and back central. Texas forever, y’all. —- The last time we traveled to Texas, the furthest south we got was Galveston. We *really* wanted to take the kids to South Padre Island, but it was day seven, with a six…

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Texas Forever Vacation: Go West Young Man!

Vacation is finally blogged! You can read all about our travels out west, then south and back central. Texas forever, y’all. —- Summer. I really do miss you. This is why I have a blog, so I can reminisce a bit longer and take y’all with me. If you’re new to the blog, I kinda/maybe…

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The 10 Commandments of Family Roadtrips

Taking a family roadtrip this summer for vacation? If you're worried about it being the worst idea ever, I'm here to change your mind. And lend you my earplugs.

We’ve been taking car trips with our kids since birth. Mostly, that makes people question our sanity. Trust me, when we were in hour 36 of last summer’s vacation from Texas to California and back, I thought the same thing. Sometimes we have banner days and sometimes we swear off ever doing another road trip…

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