We finally arrived in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota to spend a few days with our dear friends.  We were all in the Air Force together and hadn’t really seen each other in quite a few years.  This...

Our 5 day, 1,500-mile journey through Canada continued from Quebec to Ontario and then across the border back to the USA.  We stopped for an overnight in Kinburn, Ontario and after setting up the trailer...

Before we headed from Maine to Quebec, we had one last week in Maine and a huge family event.  It was the Austin Family Reunion and Suzannah's parents were hosting it.  Nearly 70 family members came...

While in Maine, we took a vacation to explore the great outdoors in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. It was Suzannah's birthday weekend and she wanted her family to see all the sites she'd...

We are finally home!! Well, Suzannah's home at least. And now Chris's and Corbin's too. Suzannah is from a small town in Maine called Monmouth and her folks have a nice home on a lake.  There's always something...

Don't judge a book by its cover.  Pretty famous saying with a good lesson.  We learned this the hard way.  After our stop at Hershey, Pennsylvania, we had one more overnight before we arrived in New Hampshire...

Suzannah loves chocolate and where is the best place to get chocolate? Hershey, Pennsylvania.  Hershey had been on our bucket list for a long time and we were finally going to the sweetest town on...

When we first moved from Japan to Mississippi, Suzannah’s mom and aunt drove down from New England to visit.  They talked about how they stopped at the Luray Caverns in Virginia and really enjoyed it.  We...

Not every adventure is planned, not every great place is scheduled in advance, sometimes you just luck in to awesome.  That’s what happened on our way from Atlanta to Luray, Virginia when we needed...

HOP 1 BEGINS IN ATLANTA But first... We did it!!  We were now a full-time travel family and ready to start our Hop 1 of traveling the world one hop at a time.  Hop 1 will be...