I know what you’re thinking… Las Vegas isn’t exactly known as THE premier kid-friendly destination, but we had the best time. We’d been in Arizona for over a month, and we’d had our fill of wide open spaces and nature galore. To be honest, we were ready for some big city sights! Here’s what you need to do if you’re in Las Vegas with kids— which I totally recommend.
Read MoreAround the start of the new year, we made our way through Arizona, stopping in Flagstaff and Sedona. Both Brian and I agreed— we could be pretty happy here. With the beautiful, curated color palettes (fun fact, the Sedona McDonalds is the only one in the word that doesn’t have the famous golden arches. Instead, they’re turquoise), and terra cotta toned soil in every direction, it satisfied my aesthetic loving ways.
Read MorePetrified Forest National Park— a place where you can wander through the woods and the desert at the same time and not see a single leaf! Sounds like the beginnings of a bad riddle, but that’s exactly what we found in our most recent adventure through the rainbow forest of petrified wood.
Read MoreIf the highlight of our stop in Tucson was the tacos, then the highlight of our visit to Saguaro National Park was definitely the cacti. As we drove through the national park and stopped to picnic at Ez-Kim-In-Zin, we all picked our favorite cacti, and the kids even created some cactus-inspired artwork as we drove. While our stay at Saguaro national park wasn’t long, it definitely made a big impact!
Read MoreWhite Sands National Park was the landlocked beach day we didn’t know we needed. We visited one of the newest national parks, White Sands, in the dead of winter. But that didn’t stop us from getting a full two days of beach-like playing and relaxing in.
Read MoreOnce we finished up with The Home Edit team in Nashville, we needed to find some adventure! So we headed West about as quickly as we could. If you’re wondering just how the west was won, we can tell you: with some screen time, McDonalds, and a healthy heap of flexibility. Our first stop on our adventure out was was at Awesome Acres Alpaca Farm in Oklahoma City, OK, another Harvest Hosts location!
Read MoreHarvest Hosts is an incredible tool if you’re living that full-time travel life. I talk more about it in this blog post, but basically, Harvest Hosts is a membership site that connects Airstream and RV travelers with wineries, breweries, farms, and more that will allow travelers to camp overnight in exchange for a purchase of whatever that property sells. Basically, if you’re ready to do some off-the-grid camping in your home-on-wheels, but you don’t want to be lost in the wilderness, Harvest Hosts is perfect for you! We all loved our visit to Tom’s Farm in Tennessee.
Read MoreIf you’ve been following along here for the past few months, then you know that we’ve started our full-time travel journey in our Airstream. I’m so excited to share our first destination— Hot Springs, Arkansas! I’ve lived in Arkansas my entire life, most of it in Conway, which is just 90 miles from Hot Springs. Since we’re familiar with the area and it isn’t too far from home, Hot Springs was the perfect first location. We were doing everything for the first time, from hitching our Airstream to our truck to navigating some wide left turns with a 30 foot trailer, to stocking our kitchen. It was nice to know that if anything went really wrong, we were close to familiar places and people who could help.
Read MoreWelcome to your Hot Springs National Park travel guide. In the past, when I’ve shared about our travels, I’ve always gotten so many questions about how I plan a trip. For years, this question stumped me. Planning trips comes more easily to me than almost anything. At the end of a long day, you won’t find me scrolling through Instagram, but you can surely find me researching my way to a new travel destination. I believe that what comes naturally to us is usually a huge indicator of our God-given strengths and abilities. So today, I’m sharing our travel guide to Hot Springs National Park, in the hopes that the next time you need to scratch that travel itch, it’ll be easier for you to hit the road and find adventure at Hot Springs.
Read MoreI spent months researching how to be a full-time travel family before we ever hit the road. One of the biggest questions we faced: Airstream or Fifth-wheel RV? Obviously we ended up choosing an Airstream, but not after some serious thought going into these two choices.
Read MoreThe time is finally here to invite you into our Airstream journey. We’ve been on the road for almost two months, but today is the first time we’re showing you some of the video footage we’ve been collecting since beginning this adventure.
Read MoreIt’s the start of a new year, and we’re well into our second month of full-time travel. Each week, we’re getting to see new sights, experience new things, and create new memories as a family. I’m so glad we’re on this journey. The further we get into our adventures, the more I’ve been sharing about how we ended up here, like how we downsized from 3,000 sq. ft. to 200, what our purging process was like, and why we chose to embark on this Airstream journey in the first place. When we first officially decided we wanted to travel full-time in an airstream, we knew that this meant we either needed to see or rent our home.
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