Enjoy the Journey Through Personalized Road Trips
Kristi enjoys traveling and taking road trips to fully experience life. She loves to find local eateries, off the beaten path hidden gems, and the secrets to enjoying the journey.
One of the biggest drawbacks when using trip mapping tools is that they take you from one location to the front door of your desired destination. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean you can park there. Especially if it’s in a city or downtown area. We …
When driving across the US, we are often faced with driving through long stretches of remote areas. Regions like the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and Great Basin have miles and miles of road with very few service areas in between. Does your road trip involve …
My oldest daughter lives in St Louis where she’s planning to go to grad school. Recently, I drove down from Stoughton, Wisconsin to spend a weekend with her. We decided to get a cabin near Eureka, Missouri and check out the area. Are you looking …
What do you need to take on your road trip? Your companions? Check! Your luggage? Check! Money? Check! Maps and GPS? Check! What else? To figure out what else to pack, you just need to go through some ‘what if’ scenarios and decide what you …
Recently, my boyfriend and I had a plan to spend a couple of days in Two Harbors, Minnesota with my mom and step-dad to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. We decided to break up the drive a bit and spend some time exploring northern Wisconsin …
I’d like to take a road trip, it sounds like fun. Maybe someday. Does this sound like you? Stop thinking about all of the reasons why you can’t take a road trip and start thinking about how you can! But how? Read on! Redefine the …
Let’s face it, on road trips, especially long ones, we can get really tired of eating at restaurants. It is also easy to blow a budget just on eating out! One way to get around this is by cooking some of your meals while on …
The Rocky Mountains are one of the world’s longest mountain ranges, starting from Alaska down to Mexico. Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado preserves just a small, but important portion of this range. With over 415 square miles encompassing mountains, forests, lakes, streams, and alpine …
The Blue Ridge Parkway, also known as “America’s Favorite Drive” is 469 miles of winding roads through Virginia and North Carolina. Shenandoah National Park borders the north end while Great Smoky Mountains National Park is on the southern end. Folks can easily spend two full …
Often times when we plan vacations or road trips, we think big. Really big. Like how to spend the two-weeks a year we might manage to get off. Or, what we’ll do when the kids are grown. Or where we might go ‘someday’. Or what’s …