One of our "long drives" of 6.5 hours was from Luray, VA to Hartford TN. One of our favorite car games to pass the time is "Score!" The basic rule of Score is to yell the word "score" as soon as you see a yellow-colored vehicle. The first person to say score gets a point. Now we have modified this game to include the classic "Punch Buggy" where you yell "punch buggy" when you see a VW Beetle. These count two points, but you have to say the color and follow w...

How do you escape the 95 degree heat wave in the Shenandoah National Park? This is not a hypothetical riddle, but rather our real life dilemma as we pulled in this afternoon to camp. The answer is to go about 100ft underground in the nearby Luray Caverns where the temperature was almost 40 degrees cooler! It does make you wonder what people did before air conditioning. You can't live down there, as there is absolutely no sunlight and the acid in the water wou...

You can't let the kids think the whole summer is going to be like a night in the Walmart parking lot, so we had to change it up a bit. And what doesn't get kids happier than eating sweets and going on rides. Hershey Park, PA was the perfect antidote. Our first real RV park was a diamond in the rough. We picked it because it was close to the park, but what we didn't know was it was part of the "resort." What does that mean you ask? Well for one, we got a fre...

So who thought that a Walmart parking lot would be a vacation destination? Well, it was our first night on our trip to cut the trip to Hershey Park in half, and, well, I will never look at a big box store parking lot in quite the same way. We pulled into the area behind the garden center where the RV app comment suggested, but no RVs were parked there. There was one fellow hanging out with a shopping cart who looked like he could be sleeping there for the nigh...

So we are off! Getting a jump on the trip to Hershey Park by going halfway and spending the night in a Walmart Parking Lot in Fishkill, NY. Our neighbor across the street, Kimberlyn and daughter Alyssa came to see us off and took this picture of us in our driveway just before leaving. I'll probably send this to our Nissan sales guy, Lenny, because he asked for a picture of us with the new car towing a trailer. We'll probably make their weekly marketing flyer!