Achievement

Both Rachel and Benjamin have made many achievements. At four of the eight National Parks that we visited, they have both received the badges for becoming a Junior Ranger.

Signs

As we have been traveling across the country, we have seen many signs. Some of these have more meaning than any other for what ever reason.

Bloppers-Hairy Business

These pictures do not need an explanation, they speak for themselves.

Bloppers-Mac n' Cheese

“Does anybody want some macaroni and cheese?” We can not count how many times Katie repeated that phrase. She is absolutely in-love with mac n’ cheese, she has even resolved to marry the dinosaur. Mac n’ cheese anybody?

Bloppers-"Honey I Shrunk the Kids"

Ben shrunk Jaclyn and Katie. We don’t really know how he did it on the road and all. Then before he could say, “Honey, I shrunk the kids” Luisa stepped on them “unintentionally.” Yeah, I don’t believe that. Do you see the look on her face?

Bloppers-Grand Canyon

“I am going to jump off this cliff and there’s nothing you can do to stop me,” said Katie at every little ledge and step. She ended up jumping off about 20 “cliffs,” and survived.

At the ledge looking down into the Grand Canyon, we decided to climb up a little higher. It was a blast racing each other to the top and looking out over the wonderful view. Bekah and Jaclyn’s hair was sticking up on end and it was cool to look at, until we realized that it’s a sure sign of electricity in the air, lightning was on the way. We quickly got down and away from the edge, and after the jitters rolled off, we laughed. No lightning came that day.

Bloppers-Leopard-print Pajamas

We only ran over one animal the whole trip, and it happened to be one from inside of the RV. You see Luisa likes to sleep in leopard-print pajamas. Plus when driving, the wind really picks up inside the RV and many times we lose napkins, tissues and plastic bags out the windows. This time, we lost a leopard-print pajama top. Luisa screamed and everyone else just about had a cow. We had to backtrack a mile by the time we turned around to save the poor animal that flew out the window. It is still being put to good use.

Special Thanks

We would like to give a special thanks to everyone for helping us make this happen. This trip has been life changing and would not have been the same without the help of others. Thank you to the people who touched our lives and made an impact in our future. Thank you to those of you who opened up your homes and allowed us to share you bed and food. Thank you to all the little people who helps us by just giving directions. Thank you to our family who supported us and went out of your way to spend time with us. Thank you Jack, and the nice couple from North Carolina for you know what. Thank you to Ben’s work for giving him the time off. Thank you to our friends who were still our friends when we got home, even though we were out of contact for 6 weeks. And lastly, thank you to our sweet little RV who carried us all of those 9,500 miles (mostly).