Day 4: Hill City, SD to Buffalo, Wyoming We all enjoyed the all-you-can eat pancake breakfast at the KOA Palmer Gulch although we ended up with way too many pancakes. The kids were hoping to go on the jumpy pillow a few more times but it didn't open at 9 like the schedule said it did. We left around 10 am to make our way through the windy Black Hills roads to Deadwood, SD. For anyone who was worried about the missing joystick to my PacMan game, it was found un...

Day 3: Mitchell, SD to Hill City, SD We woke up pretty early and ate cereal and some good chocolate chip coffee cake the that my mom brought along. If any of you know my mom, you will know that she is one of the most prepared people in the entire world. She spent a lot of time making sure that we had everything we would need. I know this trip is a little hard for all of us because we are in such close quarters and there is so much driving but I think we are han...

Day 2: Minnesota to Mitchell, South Dakota Ellie made us some great eggs and the boys played FIFA on my brother's Xbox. We hit the road around 11:30, only an hour after we actually hoped to leave. The drive was pretty uneventful. My dad did a great job driving and my mom did a mostly great job navigating except when she somehow kept closing the Google Maps app and kept opening that other iPhone map app that doesn't work as well, causing a great deal of confus...

Day 1: Elmhurst to Minneapolis We only got off about 3 hours after we wanted to. I had hoped to load my stuff onto the RV last night but my parents didn't get back with the RV until after 7 pm and then they wanted to load their stuff on first and said I should just wait until the morning. There was a zoom reunion at 9 am for the Country Day School in Costa Rica, where I worked from 1999-2002 and I really wanted to join in for a bit. So we didn't leave my house ...

I know that many of you are reading this thinking to yourself, "An RV trip, what fun! I'm going to do that someday." Well, I am here to tell you all about how fun it is going to be to go on a 15 day RV adventure with my four children, my parents, and my 19 year-old niece, Ellie. I apologize in advance for being a bit long-winded. I figured if I was actually going to do this travel blog, I should actually write about everything we do. I also have a l...