Today marks not only the beginning of a new adventure but the end of a standard way of life for the Pilakowski Clan; this is the first family trip of significance without all of our girls. It's truly bittersweet. Rebecca is in the process of moving out and looking for a full fulltime job and Katherine, whom wants to move out soon, is looking for a job that is closer to fulltime to help make that happen for herself. Although extremely proud of the adults they are ...

Home again! Today is the official end to our 2015 summer adventures. We drove nearly 11,000 miles, crossed 30 states, saw 26 state capitals, 1 national capital, 1 country, a bazillion museums, tons of fun sites, quite a few arguments, lots of hugs, wonderful, dear friends in Maine, fun encounters with lots of other tourists, and priceless time together! Ups and downs and all the in between made this a trip of a lifetime that I am so thankful to have gotten the t...

After the long, hot day of driving the day before the little bit of a sleep in and cool weather was a nice surprise. Once everyone was ready, the first stop of the day was brunch at the "historic" nugget casino where my sisters got to experience the magic of keno... Which they then quickly got bored of and instead flipped over to use for doodle papers. Following our meal we walked across the street to the Nevada State Museum which is housed in the old Carson C...

Today was to just be all about driving but we couldn't help but stop to see the Bonneville Salt Flats as we passed through Utah on I-80 plus there were two geocaches to be found! We all made our way out onto the salt flats, some with shoes and some without. I tried to engage in a simple saltball fight but no one would work with me, it was disappointing. We didn't dawdle too much after we got our picture on the flats. The site was beautiful but once you've seen an...

Although we had intended on doing a lot of geocaching we really were so busy we didn't fit it in however when one is driving across country with nothing else to do, why not? We happened to stop randomly for a pitstop in the trailer and while Mike waited for his girls he opened up the geocache app and by and by there was a good sized cache right there. Katherine, Michael, and I looked for the cache and Katherine found it. It was an old army ammo box with religious...