Category: USA
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Santa Monica
After a couple days of sitting at home in our Airbnb in a somewhat shady area of LA it was time to find some sun. Thankfully the rain was done and we had a chance to check out Santa Monica before it was time to move on. Last time we…
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Rollin on Rodeo
Next up on the California tour is the city of Angels. Jacob and I were in Los Angeles in September for the Taylor Hawkins concert and were pleasantly surprised with how much we enjoyed the city. We both said at the time that we wanted to take the kids –…
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Sun Diego
Thankfully everything had dried up and the weather was fairly cooperative for our time in San Diego. They had just gotten over some pretty serious flooding the week before we arrived. You could still smell and feel the damp in our Airbnb. Sometimes we get really nice places. Sometimes we…
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Crayons and Cactii
After overcoming a stomach bug, we were finally able to go to the Crayola Experience. Madeline has been waiting to go to one of these since one of the first iterations of the trip had us staying in Pennsylvania. When we had to rework the trip to exclude PA we…
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It’s all happening … at the zoo 🎶
You can’t visit San Diego and not go to the zoo. Lucky for us, our airbnb is just around the corner (quite possibly the only good thing about it) and so our first morning in the city we headed over. We realized as we were heading to the zoo that…
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High Rollin in White Sands
Next up on the National Park tour is White Sands National Park. Because we have to drive fairly far out of our way to get to these parks we decided to stay a couple of days in the area to make it a little easier on everyone. In this particular…
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Aliens and Caves
We left Albuquerque and drove south for two of the national parks that we have on our list: Carlsbad Caverns and White Sands. Carlsbad Caverns is almost on the Mexican border in the east-ish side of the state. It also happens to be within driving distance of Roswell. We figured…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 