While we had to flee Utah to escape the summer heat, that didn’t necessarily mean our National Park quest was at an end. While we were camped out at Stillwater Pass, we were just minutes from “The Land of Extremes”: Rocky Mountain National Park. Things to do at Rocky Mountain National Park In addition to hiking and camping opportunities, Rocky Mountain National Park has several unique attractions for the historians
While camping in the Dixie National Forest outside of Bryce Canyon National Park, we took a side trip one day to Bryce Wildlife Adventure. It was a truly unique experience! If you’ve ever been to a Cabela’s sporting goods store or a Bass Pro Shop, you may be familiar with the “Dead Zoo” experience. Bryce Wildlife Adventure takes this to the next level and we mean that in a good
We’ve talked a bit about the BLM camping opportunities around Quartzsite, Arizona, but not much about the town itself. Today, we’ll dive into what things to do in Quartzsite, AZ, the snowbird capital of the southwest. RV Facilities Being surrounded by BLM camping, Quartzsite is also flush with full-service RV facilities. The two major locations are right off Highway 95: RV Pit Stop and RV Relief. Both locations offer RV
On our way west from Virginia, we were able to drive through Tennessee. One of our stops was in Nashville. We were racing the weather, and our stop was a Boondockers Welcome spot, so we only stayed two nights. This was not nearly enough time to explore Nashville, and we’ll have to come back, but it was really cool. Nashville: More Multilingual Than We Were Expecting One thing that really
We spent the summer and fall of 2023 workamping in Virginia. While we spent a lot of our downtime touring the historic sites of Virginia, we also made time to visit some science museums in eastern Virginia. Interested in our whole itinerary? Now you can download it for free! Nauticus Museum, Norfolk, VA The Nauticus Museum in Norfolk, Virginia is a great place to learn about maritime history and see
While visiting the Historic Triangle of Virginia, we had the opportunity to visit many museums in addition to historic sites. One such museum was the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News. This was another opportunity brought to us by the local homeschool community, the other being our tour of the Berkeley Plantation. Even better, we got in free thanks to The Boy’s EAA membership and ASTC reciprocal benefits! The Virginia
While staging in Virginia, we took the time to travel to Norfolk and visit the Nauticus Museum. Nauticus is quite the experience! It’s not just a nautical history museum, but also the home of the last battleship the Unites States built, the Wisconsin BB-64. Even better, thanks to The Boy’s EAA membership from his free Young Eagles flight and ASTC reciprocal benefits, we were able to visit for free! Nauticus
We found another Air and Space Museum to tour as we were passing through Virginia. The Virginia Air and Space Science Center in Hampton! Coming from the Seattle side of Washington State, we’ve had plenty of trips to The Museum of Flight. As such, we can’t help but use that as a yardstick to judge all others. In that measure, we kind of found the Virginia Air and Space Museum
On our third week of Preservation Virginia‘s homeschool days, we visited Smith’s Fort Plantation. Regrettably, it seems like the quality of the locations was dropping off by this point. This day was shared with the Bacon’s Castle site. Being a split event, there were only two activities at this location. One was where the kids got to make their own whirlygigs. The other was where they could practice writing with
During Preservation Virginia‘s inaugural Homeschool Day events, we got to see and tour Patrick Henry’s home, called Scotchtown. This collection of buildings was the one-time home of the American Revolution politician and orator Patrick Henry. Though mostly reproductions, the main house is original. Patrick Henry is probably best known for his famous speech which ended in the lines “I know not what course others may take; but as for me,