Category: USA
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Albuquerque
We only had a few days in Albuquerque – which I think worked out just perfectly. I think Santa Fe would have been more our speed, but Albuquerque was where we could find the accommodations we wanted. The place we stayed was one of my favourites so far. It was…
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Joshua Tree
This place was spectacular. I’m lying in bed now after our day spent at Joshua Tree and my mind is still a little scrambled from just how cool this place was. Jacob and I both agree that we have always loved seeing different kinds of nature on our travels, and…
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Mini Golf and Massive Parks
On pretty much any list we found of things to do with kids in Austin two things popped up consistently: Peter Pan mini golf and Zilker park. With just two days left these seemed like good afternoon activities. Peter Pan mini golf has been in operation for 75 years –…
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Hiking Attempt #1
As we get further southwest we plan on visiting as many of the national parks as we can. In preparation for this we thought we would do a practice run on a popular off-leash trail in Austin. We loaded up the dog’s new backpack full of our water, drove to…
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Houston, we have a problem
After our day at space camp and wandering around Galveston we really didn’t have anything else planned for our time in Houston. We still had two days left before we moved on to Austin and we struggled to find anything to do in that time. To be fair to Houston,…
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Space Camp
We wrapped up our time at Great Wolf Lodge and head to head almost straight back down to where we started our loop through the ‘blob in the middle states’. The kids were booked into Houston Space Center for a day camp on Mars exploration on Saturday. We had a…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 