It was just under three weeks. We drove from one destination to the next pretty efficiently and had everything planned out so that we would get to our activity and do it, then either drive or sleep depending on what we were doing. My wife is an early bird, so she could get up and drive fine and I’m a night owl, so I could drive as long as I needed to every night. It took a lot of planning, but it was great.
This is what I hate about living back in Utah with so many kids. 10 hours only gives you so many options. We're looking at fall break and for only a few days it would be pricey to fly somewhere, but we'd like to do something a bit newer-ish. We did San Diego last month. Ideally, it'd be cool to do Disneyworld, or Florida, or Caribbean, or even the east coast, NY, or something, but those damn flights. Plus flying with 5 kids, three of them being 5 and under, sucks.
That's a hell of a trip. A couple years ago we were living in Utah and were about to move back to Texas. We were looking at doing a trip from Texas all the way to Niagra Falls, then coming back a different way. Really just seeing a lot of the country that I've never seen. Didn't end up doing it with time crunch and stuff but it would have been nice. A pain in the ***, but nice experience.
Next summer my wife and I are wanting to drive from here up through Glacier, then into Canada and to Banff. I'm excited about that one.
I haven't been too terribly far in any of my travels. Farthest north is Seattle and Maine, farthest south is Honduras and Belize (on cruise), and farthest east and west is Puerto Rico and Hawaii. We're headed to Rome next month and we're excited about that. I'd been seeing some cheap flights to London as well as Lisbon that I'd been eyeballing for sometime next spring or so. We will see.
Glacier is beautiful. My sister lives in Montana and she worked in the park for awhile. Last time we went through the park, part of it was on fire. Had to detour a ton and missed a lot of the things we wanted to see. Still beautiful though. All of it is a neat experience.
My wife is the big traveler. She loves it. I’m usually just along for the ride. I like the cruises and tropical locations, but too many people makes me anxious. So we try to avoid major population hub areas. The funny thing is that I didn’t have any trouble living in New York City. Thought I would, but it was fine.
My wife spent a year in Japan prior to us meeting and has always wanted to go back. We were planning on timing it with the Tokyo temple open house, which is supposed to be some time next year. We'll see if we can survive that flight with the kids...
Would’ve done that too, but my daughter will be on her mission. Decided to push it out until they’re both done with missions and have a little more flexibility.
