This
post represents another installment in the series detailing the first of our
three cross country National Parks camping trips with travel trailer in tow.
Alan and I had talked for years about re-creating our honeymoon
trip during which we tent-camped our way across the country to visit a number
of grand and glorious National Parks and Monuments in the west. We wanted to share that same adventure with
the kids and, in the summer of 2007, we did just that. Instead of a two man mountain tent, we slept
in our travel trailer, but aside from that concession to our formerly youthful
bodies, the adventure was much the same.
We hit all the same National Parks – Mount Rushmore, Devil’s Tower,
Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Rocky Mountain - picnicked at mountain
lakes, hiked some of the same trails we had taken 28 years ago and saw the awe
on the faces of our children as we introduced them to America.
In my previous post in this series, I had mentioned a scavenger hunt on
which we had dragged the kids along. I
wouldn’t be able to share this story with you if I didn’t take you back in time
to a cold September night in West Yellowstone 28 years prior to this trip . . .
