The next two days of the trip were a little rough. I had always heard of the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston and thought, as much as we love historic things, it would be neat to walk it. It is a brick line that runs through the sidewalks of Boston connecting historical locations along the way. Abbey downloaded an app with stories that would start playing once you hit a certain location and the whole thing sounded right up our alley. Except that we are not city folk. And

This is the smallest camper we have ever used. And that is a bit unfortunate considering that all the children have grown significantly since our first road trip. We made attempts to purchase a bigger one before this trip, but it really came down to: we could afford a camper, or we could afford the trip, but we couldn’t do both. We decided that since we weren’t living in it for months at a time, surely we could make it work for 10 days. And hey, I said MANY times during t

Every time we take a road trip I commandeer my puppy blog to share the trip story, for interested family and friends and for my kids to enjoy later as memories. I apologize if you came here purely for puppies and farm life! Our second of our 7 children, Hannah, graduated this spring. With our first, Abbey, we started a tradition of taking a family road trip to celebrate the milestone and we drove all the way to Seldovia, Alaska from NC and back. It was an epic trip that t