We love visiting the northern states in the summer. It is still warm but usually not scorching hot which is the perfect weather we look for in an adventure road trip where we will be out hiking and exploring! Here are our 5 recommended Northwest US Summer Road Trip Ideas: Northwest Road Trip 1: Yellowstone – Glacier If you haven’t visited Yellowstone or Glacier this is the trip you will want to take and is our top recommended Northwest Road Trip. 5 Days In Yellowstone Day 1 in Yellowstone: Stop 1: West Yellowstone Visitor Center Drive: Firehole Canyon Drive Stop 2: Fountain Paint Pots Nature ..read more

After traveling full-time around North America for 8 years and visiting 49 states (just not Hawaii!), these are our top picks to add to your summer travel bucket list! I have broken this down into 3 categories. National Parks, Beach Vacations and Cities. You can easily jump to the one that interests you or check out all 15 of them! If you use Pinterest be sure to pin these posts to your Travel Summer Bucket List board! National Parks Yellowstone National ParkGlacier National Park There is something about the glacier blue water and the ruggedness of the park that has made it our favorite Nation ..read more

Here is our 4-day Denali National Park Itinerary. We were on a 6-week road trip, so our trip included downtime to do some work, hang out at our RV, and enjoy a campfire. If you needed to, you could shorten this to a 3-day itinerary. We took this trip with 4 kids ages: 11, 13, 13 and 15. You can only drive 15 miles into the park with your own vehicle. From there, you must get on a tour or the transit bus to go further into the park. (as of now you can’t go all the way into the park in the bus/tour due to a landslide – but you can go to the East Fork area which is 43 miles – compared to 92 into ..read more

When we visited Denali, you could only reach mile marker 43 in the park. In the past, you have been able to go to mile marker 92. But a mudslide took out part of the road. It sounds like it will be years before it is fixed. This post will share all about riding the East Fork Transit In Denali National Park It is 100% still worth it to go on the bus ride 43 miles into the park! Below we share all the details on taking the bus. East Fork Transit Tickets There were 2 tour options – 1 being a wildlife tour and the other a more information tour. Both of these would have cost over $100 for adults an ..read more

If you just bought a new RV for the summer RVing season or if you are moving into an RV to travel full time you are going to want to make it feel like your own! RV’s have come a long way with how they look inside off of the show room floor – the industry finally figured out that bright colors are better for in an RV – thank goodness! But no matter how good they get at it you are still going to want to make it your own. We have done this with 4 different rigs. Some we did a lot of remodel work, others it was just painting and adding wallpaper and accessories. The good thing is you can do as muc ..read more

Planning a National Park trip can be overwhelming. Even thinking about going and all the logistics can stop people from planning the trip. We have visited over 30 National Parks, multiple of them 2, 3, or more times, and we want to share our top 3 tips on how to leave the stress behind and enjoy your National Park trip. Let me start by saying we are not plan way ahead kind of people. That means we usually plan our National Park trip about one month out from the trip. Sometimes, we are on it and plan three months out. But not normally. This means we could miss out on the window to book our vehi ..read more

Now that it has been almost two years since we lived, worked, and traveled full-time in our RV, we wanted to talk about the biggest differences we see between RV living and living in a sticks and bricks (a house). We full-time RV’d for eight years, the last 2 of which were in our Keystone Montana High Country 335BH fifth wheel! Since getting off the road, we have sold that rig and downsized to a smaller fifth wheel: a 29-foot Keystone Arcadia 248SLRE, which we took to Alaska on a two-month road trip last year! Related: Getting Off The Road After 8 Years Of Full Time Travel Ok onto our perspect ..read more

Kings Canyon is a lesser-known National Park – I didn’t even know where or what it was until I started researching National Parks for our Southern California road trip. I can’t believe more people don’t come! It was amazing. Below is our list of things to do in Kings Canyon National Park. Our Experience In Kings Canyon We opted to try the first-come, first-serve campground. It was the weekend before Memorial Day, so we figured we had a good shot since it wasn’t hot travel season quite yet. We got in on a Friday at about 3:30 and easily found two sites (my sister and her family were with us, to ..read more

Dog sledding has been on my bucket list for a long time, so I was excited to learn we would go dog sledding in Quebec City! Dog sledding with Aventure Inukshuk ended up being one of our favorite things to do in Quebec City with kids. Dog Sled Company: Aventure Inukshuk Who we are: Mom (43) and son (16) Experience: Newbies Length of experience: Just over 2 hours (1 hour on the sleds) What To Wear We wore snow pants, a big winter jacket, gloves, a hat and winter boots. It wasn’t super cold when we went, but I would also recommend a face covering. Arriving To Check In We left the Monsieur Jean ..read more

The Ice Hotel (Hôtel de Glace) is a must-see in Quebec City. Even if you can’t secure a night’s stay, it is worth it to tour the hotel and church, ride down the slide, and get an ice drink. The Ice Hotel Tour Experience The only ice hotel in North America, made with 35,000 tons of snow and 2400 blocks of ice, can be toured from 10 am-8 pm. But always check their site to confirm before you go. It is cold in the Ice Hotel (between 25-40 degrees Fahrenheit), so you should dress accordingly. We recommend snow pants, a winter coat, snow boots (helpful on the slide and sitting for a drink), a hat, a ..read more