Author: Katie

‘Twas the last day in Portland and all through our thoughts, was to get the most of this wonderful place? Let’s play some music, it should set the pace! So we hopped in our car and raced like a jet, to a beach, because we …

Well Jeffrey and I stayed up till 2 in the morning working on the 1,000 pcs puzzle. So it was a bit of a slow start this morning. We ate breakfast and lunch in the house, and the boys just made a disaster of the place. …

Portland is definitely a chill city. We decided to go to Mt. Hood park, which is walking distance from our VRBO. This was a great playground for the kids. I was able to speak with several people at the park, all very friendly, and informative …

Meet Yoyo. She is the newest member of the Kochelek-Geurts family, and we are so excited to have adopted her recently. The adoption fee was $7.95, plus tax. Yoyo has the potential to live about 1,900 years past her adoptive parents, and she is currently …

Up the coast we go! This was supposed to be a short drive day, but we made so many stops along the way it ended up being a long drive day. Our first distraction was….MORE TREES!! We went to the Humbolt State Park, and we …

We said goodbye to this beautiful city today – Dre watched some golf while we packed up: Jeff found an excellent brunch place in a marina just outside of San Fran. The restaurant was a french bistro called Le Garage. We had a fantastic brunch …

Today was a long one! We started early (like 7 am early), ate some Nutella (a road trip favorite) and decided we were going to hit up the Cable Car Museum to learn about the Trolley System. We headed down to the Piers since that is …

I’m telling you folks, Yosemite is Narnia. The random mega-boulders, the most waterfalls in a concentrated area in the WORLD, and incredible hiking opportunities make this place simply incredible. Yesterday sadly was more of a work day for Jeffrey, so we were unable to do …

Today was a journey up into the Yosemite Trails. This was the first hiking trip we took as a family. We did a quick bit of research and decided we would take the Mist Trail up to Vernal Fall. That looks like an easy hike …

Soooo, today was supposed to be a Yosemite day. After driving about 3 hours, we arrive at the last stretch for the hotel to Yosemite. We made a quick pitstop for some water and ice cream for Dre. That’s when disaster struck – ROAD CLOSED!!! …