Bind it Up!

Now that we’re packed and ready to go it’s time to put all the important information together so we don’t forget anything. I use binders, one for me and one for each kid. The Mom Binder: Family Scavenger Hunt: Even Mom needs to have a little fun! This scavenger hunt has been put together over […]

Bag it Up!

Now that our trip is planned, it’s time for my least favorite part…packing! It’s so hard to know how much and what to pack!! I keep a list on my phone and edit it every trip with things we forgot or things we took but didn’t need. I’m sharing my list with you here, but […]

Know Before You Go

I just finished showing you how I plan a trip, so now let’s talk about getting ready to leave. As I write this, we are preparing for our next trip (not the one I just planned for you). There are several things I’ve learned from our previous trips that have led to a checklist of […]

The World’s Largest WHAT?

This post is a continuation of my series on planning a road trip. Having added meals and hotels, we are almost done creating a roadtrip to the Northwest. I’ve taken you through almost all of the steps I use to plan a great trip. We’ve picked our major activities, planned the route, added hotels and […]

Food, Fuel, and Fixing

This post is a continuation of our “How to plan a roadtrip” Series. After timing out the parks on my example road trip, I was over my time frame by 2 days and had yet to add in food and other little stops. It was time to make the tough decisions. Looking over the route, […]

Explore Your Parks

Our trip route is pretty much set after the last post, but that doesn’t mean we’re finished. We have a lot of fine tuning left to do. This post is going to focus on how I decide how much time we are going to spend at a given National Park. For this, I use the […]

Adding the Urban

In my last post I showed you how to start planning a Northwest USA roadtrip. We had added national parks and state capitols to a preliminary route. Now it’s time to add other things which might interest my family. If you are more into cities than national parks, this might also give you some inspiration […]

Where to go?

The first step in planning a road trip is getting a basic idea of where you want to go. In my last post, I selected the Great Northwest as our example destination. But where to go… Let me introduce you to a great website: Furkot. This is my go-to site for laying out my trip […]

In the Beginning

It’s summertime, which means another roadtrip! As I’ve been working on our upcoming trip, I’ve had people ask me “How do you choose where you’re going?” “How do you plan a trip?” “How do you stay so organized?” To answer these questions, I’m preparing a series of posts on Trip Planning. I typically plan our […]