The Superhero family is getting ready for an adventure…
We’ve done road trips in California and once to Las Vegas to visit family, but it’s always been in our old Kia Sorento, or our Superheromobile, Toyota Sienna.
Trips with kids take SO MUCH LONGER than they did before we had kids.
All three of our kids have vomited on the road. So between vomit cleanups, stopping to nurse, stopping for bathroom breaks, stopping to change diapers, and stopping for food, our trips just take a lot longer now.
We’ve done some flights with kids too. Victoria’s first flight was to Maui when we went for our 2nd and my parent’s 30th wedding anniversary. They watched Victoria while we went snorkeling at Molokini. Bobby was technically there too… because I was about 5 weeks pregnant at the time. We took our baby announcement pictures there too!
Our second flight was to Cabo San Lucas, my mom and sister came to help this time because we had both Victoria and Bobby and had a wedding to attend where children weren’t allowed. It would have been easier to leave the kids at home with grandma, but I was still nursing Bobby, because he was only 6 months old at the time.
Alexandria has not been on a flight yet… and when we found out my sister was getting married in Michigan, I wasn’t too excited at the thought of taking 3 kids on flights to Michigan and back, especially since all 5 of us are in the wedding. So, I thought… maybe we can finally do our road trip…
We’ve been wanting to do a cross country RV trip for a while, but we just haven’t made it happen.
So, when this opportunity came up, we were super excited about the idea of making it happen. Our trip is scheduled to start 7/11/2019, and we’re scheduled to return back home on 7/31/2019. I’ve never done an RV trip (that I can remember, but I have seen a picture of me in an RV when I was a teenager, so… maybe I did, but if so my mom and dad did all the work, so I don’t remember it at all) so this is all new to me, and I’ll absolutely be using Google and YouTube, as well as all of my friends on Facebook to gather as much information as possible before we leave on our adventure.
I’m super excited to have a bathroom on board since that should allow us to eliminate some of our stops, we’ll have food and drink on board, so that’ll allow us to eliminate more stops, hopefully the kids are over their vomiting stage, they haven’t actually thrown up since we moved to Visalia in February 2018 (Alexandria was the last to vomit, and she did it twice in the last 30 minutes on our move here), and I’m really excited to get to explore our country, and see some pretty amazing landmarks, and get to do this with our kids.
So, now the real fun begins where we figure out how to use an RV, all the tips, and tricks, and where to stay. We plan to park on the street if possible when we stop to visit friends/family, but the big touristy sites, we’d like to find an RV park close to the tour site so we can get there easily since we aren’t towing a car.
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