Tuscon and Mt. Lemmon

This is our campsite in Silver City Sunday morning just before we packed up and left.

Silver City, NM

After two and a half weeks at home, we're off again. This trip, we're heading west starting with a three day weekend camping with my brother and his family in New Mexico. We drove to El Paso Wednesday and spent the night in the road in from of Ms. Rosie's house, my sister-in-law's mother. 

Headed Home

We left Virginia Saturday to head home. In our original plans, we were going to see a couple of places on the way home, but we've been to the southern states many times, so we decided to just drive straight through. We were super excited to see Mommy and Jacob and the kids did not want to stop for anything.

This is our campsite at Chippokes Plantation State Park just before we headed out.

Jamestown

We left Harpers Ferry yesterday and headed to Chippokes Plantation State Park. It is directly across the river from Jamestown. I have to start planning these drives a little better and stop relying solely on the GPS system in the truck. As we approach the bridge that will cross the river, the GPS shows a picture of a little boat, which is, you guessed it, a ferry. RVs don't really fit on ferries.

So, after an hour detour to a bridge across the river, we arrived. It's a great site and park. It's quiet here, as there aren't a lot of campers this time of year and it's a Thursday.

This morning, we crossed that same ferry in the truck and headed to Jamestown.

Harpers Ferry

I've always wanted to visit all 50 states and I think that's probably a pretty typical aspiration. However, when looking at the map of our trip so far and the route we planned on taking home, there was a gaping hole in the center named West Virginia. It also seems like we should have figured out a way to clip Indiana, but I've been there before. We've also all been to Florida many times, so we weren't going to go out of our way to drive through it.

Washington, D.C. - Day 6

Today is our last in DC and the kids have been begging me since day one to go to the zoo, so that's where we head today. It is quite far on the subway with two transfers and then a little walk, so we didn't get there until lunch time. We stopped in a little grocery store on the way to get a picnic lunch and ate at a table just inside the zoo.

Washington, D.C. - Day 5

We took yesterday off as coming into town three days in a row is exhausting, for the kids at least. I thought I was supposed to be the old one.

Today was museum day and the kids most wanted to go to the Natural History Museum and I wanted to go to the Air and Space Museum, so we did both. Here is a barrage of pictures.