for the last week and a half, we have been in columbus, texas, which is basically in the middle of nowhere. look for a riveting post on that soon. we are, however, about an hour and a half from austin, so we got a hotel this weekend and had ourselves a little vacation. without further […]
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new orleans, part two.
when i left off, we were just getting back from our “creole queen” riverboat adventure. we pick up the story on the walk back from the streetcar, near our hotel, where a local music shop had these really cool lego diorama of a mardi graw parade in its window. i narrowed it down to three […]
new orleans, part one.
for christmas, derek’s parents gave us a free one week stay at any of the locations in their time-share network. when we looked at a map of our travels and the possibilities, we settled on new orleans. then, the grandlidboms decided to join us there for a fun filled adventure. we parked our camper outside […]
miscellany alabammy.
so. aside from isaac’s birthday occurring and our visit to the uss alabama battleship, our week in alabama was pretty low key. we spent a lot of time at the campground, where there were several other kiddos for our kids to play with. when we first arrived, a bunch of storms has just passed through, […]
national naval aviation museum and lighthouse day.
monday was martin luther king jr day. so after we watched a few youtube videos about him, we headed to pensacola for a day of adventure on derek’s day off. our first stop was lunch. one of my former youth group students is in flight school nearby so we met up with him at the […]
florida caverns state park
during our stay in fountain, florida, we had two major excursions. the first was monday, when derek was off for the new year’s day holiday. we took the opportunity to hit up florida caverns state park, for a little exploring. anna was so excited. on the way in. we paid and waited for our tour […]
great smoky mountains.
after our week in asheville, we moved on down the road to a little place just outside great smoky mountain national park. it was super cold and kind of not near much of anything else, so outside of our adventure to the park, we laid low mostly. firstly, we put up our christmas tree. i […]
asheville nc week (long post).
after spending 5 weeks at home with the grandlidboms, getting back on the road was a tough transition for our posse. the super cold and often rainy weather conditions didn’t help matters. but we managed to find a few fun things to do and survived our first week back in the camper, near lovely asheville, […]
five weeks in winston-salem.
this morning, we bid farewell to our “hometown” of winston-salem after a five week visit with derek’s parents. we stayed in their driveway, and overtook their house. we completed some camper fixes and upgrades. we purged some clothes and toys and added new clothes and toys. we ate a lot. celebrated a lot. and spent […]
gettysburg national military park.
on thursday, my mom and stepdad rolled into town for a quick little visit. yesterday (saturday), we all packed into the minivan like sardines and drove to gettysburg to get some civil war knowledge in our brains. so, it was really cold and really really windy. hazel had a fail proof solution. derek is mad […]