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Moab, UT – October 2012

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Chapter 1. Swim Fast, then Hit the Road!

An early start to the day, as usual when some sort of travel is involved! But today we had another reason to be up early anyway. Lily had a swim meet at Gleneagle! I had initially been planning to hit the road to Moab first thing, but when we found out that the swim meet was scheduled for that morning, I figured we would just leave straight from the pool and accepted the obvious fact that we would be getting into Moab pretty late. She was excited to swim in the first in-house meet though so it would be worth it.

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Sequoia & Yosemite – May/June 2012

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Pre-trip report.
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This story actually begins in Montana, in Glacier National Park to be exact, even though it isn’t where we are going. But we went there several years ago, and Brian declared it his favorite place in the world. When he would tell people that, they would always say that he should go to Yosemite, and assured him he would fall even more in love there. He was skeptical, but intrigued, so it became the natural choice for our next National Park vacation.

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Yellowstone & Grand Teton- July 2006

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Having gotten the travel bug last year in Hawaii, we were anxious to take our first real vacation as a family – bringing Lily along this time! She was 2 (going on about 12), and could be difficult at times, but also loved adventure and was excited to see the geysers! Since I initially made this trip report as a Powerpoint Slideshow, I’m going to do something different and just post the slides instead of typing everything out again 🙂

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Hawaii – June 2005

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Wow! What an adventure we had in Kauai! It all starts at our hotel, the Hanalei Bay Resort in Princeville, which is on the North Shore of Kauai. The lagoon pool was always a favorite, especially with its two waterfalls. The scenery around the hotel was some of the best on the island – a beautiful combination of mountains, jungle, and beach. Lily had stayed home with the grandparents, so Brian and I were in for a week of serious adventuring!

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