Upgrayedd
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This is a bit different post than normal so hopefully it's appropriate in here.
After 12 years of marriage my wife and I are finally planning out our first big road trip as a family. I've done many epic road trips pre-kid and I took my wife on a long three week loop of the west before we were married. The longest trip we've taken as a family is to Vegas from SLC and that 6hr drive usually ends up being 8hrs or more with the kids. As such, I'm trying to do as much planning and logistics ahead of time as possible to try to minimize stress/surprises, etc.
We’ll have five kids (10, 9, 8, 4, 2) my wife and I packed into a minivan. Trying to decide if I want to do a roof top carrier or potentially hitch mounted carrier (doesn’t have a hitch yet) or just keep everything inside and try to pack light.
My kids have never seen the ocean, and we're all fair skinned and don't love the sun/heat so we landed on seeing the Oregon coast from May 26th to June 4th. It's a tighter timeline than I'd like but all I can pull off with work right now.
We plan on doing appropriate outdoors hikes (we love mountains and forest) and nature based sight seeing along the way. I'd say nothing longer than a 5 mile hike and for most stuff 2 miles or less which I understand limits our options. The kids want to see the beach and tide pool sea creatures and my wife is a photographer so I'm sure she'll want to take thousands of pictures of the kids in nature and having fun. I want to make it as memorable (hopefully in a good way lol) as possible.
We have family in Reno that we may stay with.
We're also looking for delicious places to eat and places to stay (preferably somewhat humble/affordable but most importantly safe) along the way. Would love suggestions and feedback from you all.
After 12 years of marriage my wife and I are finally planning out our first big road trip as a family. I've done many epic road trips pre-kid and I took my wife on a long three week loop of the west before we were married. The longest trip we've taken as a family is to Vegas from SLC and that 6hr drive usually ends up being 8hrs or more with the kids. As such, I'm trying to do as much planning and logistics ahead of time as possible to try to minimize stress/surprises, etc.
We’ll have five kids (10, 9, 8, 4, 2) my wife and I packed into a minivan. Trying to decide if I want to do a roof top carrier or potentially hitch mounted carrier (doesn’t have a hitch yet) or just keep everything inside and try to pack light.
My kids have never seen the ocean, and we're all fair skinned and don't love the sun/heat so we landed on seeing the Oregon coast from May 26th to June 4th. It's a tighter timeline than I'd like but all I can pull off with work right now.
We plan on doing appropriate outdoors hikes (we love mountains and forest) and nature based sight seeing along the way. I'd say nothing longer than a 5 mile hike and for most stuff 2 miles or less which I understand limits our options. The kids want to see the beach and tide pool sea creatures and my wife is a photographer so I'm sure she'll want to take thousands of pictures of the kids in nature and having fun. I want to make it as memorable (hopefully in a good way lol) as possible.
We have family in Reno that we may stay with.
We're also looking for delicious places to eat and places to stay (preferably somewhat humble/affordable but most importantly safe) along the way. Would love suggestions and feedback from you all.