Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.
Weather: Slight fog in the morning. Good weather throughout route. 5:00am: Up early! 5:30a: Mazda odometer is 117 miles. 5:59a: Depart! Sunrise! 6:25a Enter Wisconsin 7:16a: Son Volt “Trace” 9:50a: Gas in Madison 11:00a: Enter Illinois 1:05: Enter Indiana 2:00p CT/3:00p ET: Enter …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Vermont Road Trip Log: Day 1, SaturdaySpending the night in Cleveland, OH so we had to get some amazing Graeter’s French Pot Ice Cream.
Today we “blast off” 🚀 our road trip to Vermont with a 760 mile drive to Cleveland! 🛣
A week from today we depart on our summer vacation! We are heading out on a 2-week road trip to Vermont and back with stops in:
We’ll be driving our new Mazda CX-9.
I love how the Bike Vault Airbnb is completely themed around bicycles and even uses bikes as artwork. They have notes with each bike highlighting what is interesting about it. Includes Trek’s first mountain bike from 1983!
I haven’t been mountain biking for over 10 years. My Specialized M4 StumpJumper has seen a lot of neglect over the last decade. But yesterday we all hit the Cuyuna Lakes MTB trails and had a blast on the single track! We did the full Galloping Goose trail around Huntington Mine …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Galloping Goose MTB TrailCold day, but still on a vacation-y trip, so afternoon ice cream from Rave Creamworks!
Final day of driving today with the home stretch to Minnesota! 🙌
2:00a Daylight savings time takes an hour.
6:31a Left Liberty, MO.
7:58a Entered Iowa!
11:09a In Minnesota!
12:34p Home! 🏡
Today is the longest segment on our drive back home.
Over an hour driving through extremely dense fog.
5:31a MT Left Moriarty, New Mexico as of on Central Time.
5:55a Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show. 🎶
8:55a CT Entered Texas.
9:58a Gas stop at Loves with crazy wind.
11:49a Enter Oklahoma.
4:19p Enter Kansas.
8:10p Drive-thru at Culver’s in Liberty, MO.
8:15p Check-in at Home2 Suites in Liberty.
Long day! One final jaunt tomorrow to home!
Today we end our Arizona Escapades and start the long trip back home to Minnesota! We have had a great time here. 🤩 445 miles today.
Honda Pilot is packed!
9:48a Left Scottsdale.
Kids doing classes on Google Meet while driving.
1:55p Entered New Mexico.
2:30p Stop for gas in Gallup, NM.
5:00p Dinner at Green Jeans with Amore Neapolitan Pizza and Nitro Fog ice cream. 🍕🍦
6:30p Check into Best Western in Moriarty, NM.
