Sometimes the best trips aren’t months in the planning — they’re the ones where you remember you have adult money, pack up the kids, and hit the road. That’s exactly how this trip happened. No huge itinerary, just a Harry Potter obsession I’d been sitting on since a friend (thank you, @coleyraeh!) posted about it months ago, and a real…
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Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — the UP, as the locals call it — is one of those destinations that sounds interesting on paper and then absolutely floors you in person. We drove from Bentonville, Arkansas to Ironwood, Michigan in August of 2024 with our three kids — ages 8, 11, and 14 — and spent a week exploring a corner of…
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Yell County, Arkansas sits quietly in the heart of the Arkansas River Valley, sandwiched between the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests, bordered by the Arkansas River to the north and Scenic Highway 7 to the east. And if you slow down long enough to really look, you’ll find one of the most naturally rich, historically layered, family-friendly outdoor destinations in…
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I spent a ton of time researching everything there was to do in Perry County because I had heard it was a great spot for getting outside, I heard that there was a historic country store I needed to visit with famous fried bologna sandwiches & homemade pie, & a great recreation area managed by the state parks. This is…
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How we packed up three kids, zero reservations, and chased Yellowstone across the American West — and why it became the trip of a lifetime In August of 2020, we loaded up our three kids, a tent, a small ice chest, a bucket of camping gear, and headed west toward Yellowstone. No reservations. No itinerary. Just a family that needed…
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