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Essential National Park Packing List

May 27, 2024 By Kim Nelson Leave a Comment

Essential National Park Packing List

National Park vacations have become more and more popular. This is evidenced by how much busier the parks have become since we started our goal in 2015 of visiting as many National Parks as possible before our kids graduate high school. When traveling to a National Park adventure there are some key items to pack whether you plan to rough it and camp at the park or whether you plan to relax at a nice home rental or hotel at the end of a long day of hiking. We as a family have visited 50 National Parks so far so we have a good idea of what we consider to be essentials for packing no matter the park we are visiting. We have compiled our essential National Park packing list for ANY National Park vacation.

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20 Best Travel-Friendly Stocking Stuffers

November 14, 2021 By Kim Nelson Leave a Comment

Our picks for the top 20 road-trip worthy stocking stuffers for anyone on your Christmas list. Great for the travel and national park lover in your life. #stockingstuffers #roadtrip #travelwithkids #christmaslist

I am always looking for fun stocking stuffers for my kids for Christmas and finding their stocking stuffers is more fun for me than finding their main gifts. Because of my love for stocking stuffers, we decided to compile a list of travel-friendly stocking stuffers that are perfect for anyone on your list who loves to travel and road trip like we do. Hope you find this helpful!

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Expert Road Trip Packing Tips for Families

July 26, 2017 By Kim Nelson 2 Comments

Our top road trip packing tips for families.

Road trip packing tips for families. 15+ things you don't want to leave home without. www.adventuringbeyond.com

When we head out on a road trip, I inevitably overpack (especially with food!).  Driving isn’t like flying, I don’t have to be as choosy about what I bring, which is both good and bad…  I have gotten better over the years about figuring out what we actually end up using on our trip and what stuff I don’t necessarily need to bring along.  Here I have compiled a list of top 16 road trip packing tips for families in hopes that my road trip packing experience will help someone else.  These are things I consider essentials when traveling with kids on a road trip.

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Best Family Podcasts for Road Trips

July 25, 2017 By Kim Nelson Leave a Comment

Our family’s picks for the top family podcasts for road trips.

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(Updated: Summer 2020) Family podcasts are something we hadn’t explored much before our road trip to Washington, the summer of 2017.  I thought it may be a good way to mix things up between audiobooks and music so I researched some options before we left.  The following are the ones we ended up enjoying….

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Best Audiobooks for Family Road Trips

July 20, 2017 By Kim Nelson Leave a Comment

Best audiobooks for family road trips. www.adventuringbeyond.com

Long road trips require lots of activities that will help pass time.  We don’t want our kids watching movies the whole time so we have tried many different audiobooks over the course of the last few years.  We’ve found that with audiobooks, the voice of the narrator makes a huge difference in whether or not we really enjoy listening.  It could be an awesome book, but if the narrator has a boring or irritating voice, forget about it, my kids (and us parents) will lose interest.  Following are some of the best audiobooks for family road trips.

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12 Best Non-Technology Road Trip Activities for Kids

April 16, 2017 By Kim Nelson Leave a Comment

The best non-technology road trip activities for kids. Note: This post contains affiliate links.

Long road trip ahead? Try these 12 non-technology road trip activities for kids next time you have to spend a lot of time in the car. www.adventuringbeyond.com

We inevitably have a lot of long days in the car on our trips and we don’t like our kids to be on the iPad or watching movies the entire time.  Over the years we have found quite a few other activities to keep them (and us) entertained and occupied on those long days.

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Our Best Practical Family Road Trip Tip

April 13, 2017 By Ross Nelson Leave a Comment

Road trip adventure to Glacier National Park! www.adventuringbeyond.com
The Adventure Begins…

Adventures come in many types, and while we have taken trips to Colorado (Rocky Mountain NP and Denver), California (San Francisco and Muir Woods), Florida (Disney!), Chicago, and our own beautiful North Shore (Grand Marais, Duluth, and Larsmont MN), our first big adventure took place in the summer of 2015.  We set out for a 2 week journey that began with an overnight stay at the Element Hotel in Fargo, ND.

Why stop short of a full first day?  Why stop in Fargo of all places? What exactly is our best practical road trip tip?
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