Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

Category: USA

  • Rushmore

    Rushmore

    We left Denver and made sure to drive through Nebraska en route to Rapid City to cross that off the list. We are in South Dakota for my 40th birthday: dreams really do come true. I spent the day wandering around target by myself with a hot coffee before we…

  • In Denver Pants are Optional

    In Denver Pants are Optional

    We were completely surprised by Denver in a number of different ways – the weather, the city, the nudity. Like so many of the places we have been on this trip, we put effectively zero research into where we were going, what we would do when we were there, and…

  • Hot Springs

    Hot Springs

    After the last 10 or so days in Utah, it was time to move on. I really did enjoy all the red rocks and nature and warm-ish weather, but I can only take so much desert type wasteland before I need to see some green, and people, and if I’m…

  • Arches

    Arches

    We spent the majority of our time in South East Utah at our AirBnb. We decided to mix things up quite a bit and stay in a yurt! Part of the reason we chose it was just to see what a yurt would be like – the other part was…

  • Sand Caves, Dragon Bellies and Dino prints

    Sand Caves, Dragon Bellies and Dino prints

    Our first stop in Utah and the gateway to a couple of the national parks we had planned is Kanab – the former Hollywood of the west. This was a town that had very clearly seen better days and could really use a nice coffee spot but served as a…

  • Bryce Canyon & Zion

    Bryce Canyon & Zion

    There are two national parks pretty close to Kanab and we wanted to make sure we saw both. Zion is much more popular than Bryce so we figured we would go to Bryce on the weekend and Zion through the week to try and beat some of the crowds. It…

  • Sedona

    Sedona

    After our time in Vegas we headed back to Arizona to catch some of the highlights in the northern part of the state. We booked ourselves a place in Flagstaff because it was pretty central to what we wanted to see – Sedona and the Grand Canyon – but didn’t…

  • Death Valley

    Death Valley

    We decided to detour through Death Valley en route to Vegas from Tulare, California. Everything we had read or seen said this was a “must-see” park. I’m not sure I would necessarily agree that it was worth the effort – it was a ton of driving – but it was…

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