Roadtripping With Kids

This month of August my family drove¹ from Nogales, Mexico to Northern Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. On the way, we hiked in Sedona with the kids and saw a rainbow over the natural amphitheater in Bryce Canyon National Park. We held our breaths as our three year old twins walked too close to the edge of the path in Zion National Park and secured them to the stroller to ensure no one stumbled off the planked paths around the hot springs in Yellowstone. They rode their first boat across Jenni Lake in Grand Teton. My daughter completed the requirements for the junior ranger badge in all four parks!

After enjoying America’s greatest idea, we visited family in Denver and friends in Iowa City. In Denver, we took the kids to MeowWolf and the Children’s Museum. Driving through Nebraska, we stopped at the Museum of Danish Americans and played with Legos.

Currently, I am still dressing out of a suitcase and eating out of a cooler. (We’re still in temporary housing; i.e., grandma’s house). Luckily, grandma lives minutes away from the best Korean restaurants in the DC suburbs. And I found a place that approximates the salty cheese cream topping I love from Hey-Tea.

In between chapters, I’m eager to see where our story goes next

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1. My boys have music preferences now. Impossible to listen to the latest Planet Money or This American Life over the loud demands for Moana, Frozen, or Encanto from the backseat.