HI and sorry about disappearing! For a whole week! I just realized my last post was last Friday, which is a very long time for me to go with no blog posts. I had told myself I wasn't allowed to write any regular posts until I finished my Smokies recaps, but I still have 2… Continue reading A check in! And oops, a Hawaii $$ related spiraling tirade…
Thursday, March 28 Thursday was such a wonderful day! On the agenda was driving the Blue Ridge Parkway (a scenic route that snakes the "long way" through the mountains to Asheville, North Carolina). I went back and forth when planning this trip originally; I'd heard such good things about Asheville that my original plan was… Continue reading Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway day (to Asheville)
Wednesday, March 27 The plan for Wednesday was to go to Dollywood!! If you're not familiar, it's a major theme park owned by country superstar Dolly Parton and based around her life and roots in the Tennessee Smoky Mountains. I wanted to go here for a few reasons. One, several people that I know who… Continue reading Dollywood fun!
Tuesday, March 26 My original plan for Tuesday was to do another day focusing on some major National Park sights (similar to Monday). I had a certain area of the park bookmarked for Monday (which we did), and another section (the first half of Newfound Gap Road) and a couple specific hikes cued up for… Continue reading Our worst weather day, but turned out okay!
Monday, March 25 I think I already shared this- I started Monday off with some hot tub time. It was a late night Sunday night so we weren’t planning to be up and out the door super early on Monday or anything. It honestly got a bit later than I preferred before we headed out… Continue reading Great Smoky Mountain NP: Crowds, Spruce Flats Falls and Cades Cove
Sunday, March 24: Picking up where I left off in my last post- Sunday afternoon. So after arrival, a late lunch and then checking in at the resort, we headed out for Anakeesta. It’s a mountaintop “village/amusement park” of sorts. Not a full on amusement park but a smaller mountain version. The only rides are… Continue reading Anakeesta! Magical views!
We made it to Gatlinburg! (Tennessee) My current view as I type this: (Edit: current view yesterday (Monday) morning as I started to write this post, but then an older couple from California got in the hot tub and we started chatting and I put my phone away 😅). Haha. Yes, always the hot tub.… Continue reading Travel days and we made it to Gatlinburg!
Feeling ready for a vacay!! I will be honest, part of me kind of wishes we were just jetting off somewhere REALLY WARM where I could sink into a lounge chair with one foot hanging off and toes in the sand and do not much else for the rest of the time. I'm just a… Continue reading Spring break + crowds
I have not done a great job of keeping up with my goal of going back in time to recap/ "immortalize on the blog" our past trips. (For any new readers, I love writing up detailed trip recaps of our family travels. I started this in 2020, when I started the blog. It's my version… Continue reading Flashback Friday: BARCELONA!
Whew, we're home!! As alluded to in my last post, we did not actually make it home Friday night as planned. Womp womp. As soon as we landed in Guadalajara, Ivan pulled up the Aeromexico airline app, checked our next flight and it said... "In the air". So much for that. It was already after… Continue reading Home, Charlie reunion, setting 2024 intentions…
GRATEFUL KAE 