Well, we couldn't think of anything more American than road tripping and camping in Yellowstone National Park. We plotted our route, chose the days that we will camp and which days we will stay in a hotel. We checked out our camping gear (we haven't used it in a while!) and hit the road!
Day 1: Austin to Amarillo
Texas is HUGE. Amarillo is green and not yellow. We loved the Holiday Inn Express in Amarillo. It was clean and the staff were friendly. There was free beer and wine when we arrived and some food for the kids. We walked around the Botanical Gardens, they were beautiful and it was great to get outside and walk after such a long day in the car.
Taken at the Amarillo Botanical Gardens.
Our home for the next few weeks. We added the car top carrier for this trip and we are totally impressed with how much we can fit up there!
Day 2: Amarillo to Pike National Forrest
Today, we drove from Amarillo, Texas to Pike National Forrest, Colorado. Our plan is to camp for two nights. Scott's cousin Andy and his girlfriend Tracy are meeting us too.
All of us experienced a bit of altitude sickness. After a day in Colorado, our fingers and lips were totally dried out and we even had some vomiting. We drank a ton of water and by the time we left Colorado, we all felt better. We still enjoyed ourselves, but probably not as much as we had planned to.
Our tent is huge. We set up 2 inflatable queen mattresses inside. Kids on one, sleeping sideways and Scott and I on the other. Our first night in Colorado, we slept with the rain fly off, so we could see the stars. It was beautiful! However, a little cold, so we had the rain fly on the tent for all of the rest of the nights that we camped.
Funny story about my Lily. Once we arrived at our campsite and set the tent up, Lily went inside and sat on her bed. She told me that she's an indoor girl and she thought that it was a good spot there on her bed and she'd be spending the rest of her time there. I laughed and said that it was going to be a very long holiday for her if she spent all of her time in the tent. Of course, she didn't and within a couple of hours she had embraced the great outdoors.
There were these amazing red rocks in our campground. We hiked all around them and climbed the ones that we could.
Cousin Andy brought a hammock and that was BIG FUN for these little people. It inspired Scott to buy a hammock for the remainder of our trip.
I took this picture of Lily just as we were packing up to leave. She was filthy and looked as though she hadn't brushed her hair in days. A long way from the little girl that told me she wouldn't be getting out of the tent and it had only been 2 days.
Thanks for the fun Andy and Tracy!
Next up, Keystone, SD.
No comments:
Post a Comment