Phil and Megan's Blog

Megan’s Take Today’s biggest adventure was visiting White Sands National Park. We hiked the 1-mile dune nature trail, which was really pretty and just the right length for the kids. One of the big activities here is dune sledding. We opted not to bring/rent sleds for the dunes, but instead gave them free play time […]

Megan’s Take Today started as the kind of day that makes me think “why are we doing this kind of trip?!” But it ended as “those are (fun) memories!” We checked out of Brantley Lake State Park this morning, and Emilia had a massive meltdown in the morning about an unfinished campground chalk project as […]

Megan’s Take We headed to Guadalupe Mountains National Park today. It is much smaller and less visited, but we wanted to check it off our list. Today was a cloudy day, following overnight/early morning rains. (The ranger said it’s a special day, since it’s not often like that down here.) We hiked the Smith Spring/Manzanita […]

Megan’s Take Carlsbad Caverns National Park, which has “North America’s largest single cave chamber by volume” , is so cool! I hadn’t seen many pictures in advance and wasn’t totally sure what to expect, but it really is BIG. First, we hiked about 1.2 miles down hundreds of feet through the natural entrance to the […]

Megan’s Take Today was our second full day of driving. I would not / could not do a third. Yesterday felt exciting with the promise of adventure. Today felt like a slow grind – getting across west Texas and then driving from Hobbs NM to Carlsbad NM. We were all starting to feel tired and […]

Megan’s Take Today was our first looooong travel day. We had 5 minutes to stretch the kids’ legs and burn off a bit of energy before we got in the truck, so the kids and I raced through the short nature trail next to our campsite. We were on the road a bit after 7 […]

Megan’s Take Today’s big activity was visiting the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. I was impressed with the easy free parking and easy logistics with young children (accessibility and navigating with a wagon, bathrooms/water fountains, being allowed to bring food inside etc). Phil and I both felt like it’s a large, well organized museum. […]

Megan’s Take Today we went to Mass at 7 am, which was the earliest that we’ve ever gotten the kids out for church. It was hard to get up early, but it was the only time that made sense with travels. After Mass, we grabbed our camper and headed to the Denver Zoo. It seemed […]

Megan’s Take Today we had extra time in the morning, so we decided to check out the Benson Sculpture Park. We were really pleasantly surprised with how fun it was, and we only realized as we were driving away that we actually missed half of it, which had been across the road from us! The […]