Road Trip

Because Italy, of course! My parents were meeting my family (me, my husband, and our two small children) in Europe after a business trip, and since they don't make it overseas very often, we needed somewhere epic. Also, we found good deals on flights to Milan! So, Italy was a no-brainer. We decided to rent a car, and therefore decided we just wanted to stay in the Northern part of Italy, to avoid long car trips with two kids.

My Dad and I love to travel together and this is one of the destinations we chose!

We try and get to the Colorado Rocky Mountains every summer. I grew up in Denver, so we also love to spend time here and visit with friends and family.

Surprise 65 birthday present to my mother from my brother and I. It’s been her dream since our family dates back to Cork County Ireland

Friend was living there for college so I went to visit.

After a visit to Edinburgh with one day in the Highlands, we were dying to see more of the Scottish countryside! We decided we wanted to road trip for the freedom to visit smaller towns and to stop and take in the views whenever we felt like it.

We (my husband and I) were living abroad in Budapest when my parents and brother came for a visit. My mother had always wanted to visit Poland, so we decided to road trip there!

We'd always dreamed of a road trip to western Ireland and were able to make it as we were heading back to our home in Budapest after a summer visit with our families in the United States.

We were living in Budapest and needed to leave for visa reasons. We'd heard such amazing things about Romania, and decided to road trip through Transylvania!

My fiancé and I chose Ireland because we wanted a more outdoors oriented trip. We bought our tickets at the beginning of 2020, though that didn't work out in our favor. When we finally could go on our trip 2 years later, we were more than ready to explore all the country had to offer.

Since we always head east to see family for Christmas, Thanksgiving became our time to travel wherever we want (just the five of us). Initially we took beach vacations to islands, but then we decided it was time to start exploring the different areas within the United States, more specifically the National Parks.

For this trip, we didn’t have a full week, so we decided to start with three parks that were relatively close to each other.

Also, since my youngest was in fourth grade, we wanted to take advantage of the US Government’s Every Kid Outdoors (everykidoutdoors.gov) program, which provides all fourth graders and their families free access to national parks, lands, and waters for a full year! This is an amazing program—increasing access to outdoor recreation for everyone!

We travelled to Thimphu because it is so famous for visitors to go there, also it is known as one of the most peaceful and beautiful places.

We traveled here to check out colleges for our daughter.

We made reservations at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Natl. Park a year in advance, a place we had always wanted to travel to as a family. We designed a four-state road trip around this dream destination, beginning in Bozeman, Montana, and ending in Lake Tahoe, California.

A quick weekend getaway at the beginning of spring break before driving down to San Diego!