This post represents another installment in the series detailing the second of our three cross-country National Parks camping trips with travel trailer in tow. At the time of this trip in 2010, our son, Ryan, was 16 and our daughter, Kyra, was 11.
I was amazed, astonished, shocked and mortified to discover that the last post from this National Parks Trip #2 series was ten months ago. I know I have a habit of going off on tangents, but even I can’t understand how I got so distracted this time around.
Our three cross-country National Parks camping trips were all planned based on what I call “the sampler” itinerary. Although we would have loved to spend months on the road exploring the Parks, the first two of the three trips were taken while Alan was still working a full time job. His extra weeks of vacation, a benefit of his many years of employment, allowed us the luxury of taking a four week journey. However, we’d be making a round trip from one side of the country to the other and back, and that travel time lopped off about ten days of vacation right from the get go. The sampler itinerary precluded visiting any one National Park for more than a day or two, but it gave us the opportunity to visit ten of them on this one trip. That, in turn, provided us with a huge variety of experiences and enabled us to identify the National Parks to which we’d like to return for further and extended exploration.
