Keep Calm and Road Trip by KeepCalmAndStayGold

Things have stagnated a bit for us and the weather has been cold, rainy and grey. Quite frankly, it’s been depressing. The weather has also made it harder on grampa to visit us in Portland. There’s been some talk about moving to San Diego with him, but it just doesn’t feel right to do that right now. As a compromise, we all thought it might be nice to have a short term stay with grampa in San Diego instead.

Our preferred mode of travel: car!

I’m really excited about this since it will be not just our first family road trip, but my (and Mikah’s) first road trip EVER. I’ve already planned out major stopping points along our path approximately every 3-4 hours apart to help relieve events of ‘the wiggles’. I’m also putting together car/pitstop activities and looking into geocaching along the way.

As you can see from the map, we are opting for a scenic coastal drive

Pitstops so far include:

• Sea Lion Caves
• Brookings, OR (last stop to stock pile supplies before hitting sales tax again!)
• Redwoods Forest, CA
• San Francisco (Mikah’s birth place!)
• Cayucos/Morro Bay
• Las Angelas
• San Diego (Ben’s hometown)

We expect it to be a 3-4 day trip. I’ve made an itinerary but it’s very loose to keep things stress free and FUN. For the next week, you can look forward to diy ideas for kids car rides. After that i’ll have updates on our pitstop discoveries.

We’ll also be carry Kitty Eggs with us. We’ll have pitstops at our current retailers and perhaps meet new ones along the way. All in all, we expect to spend about 2-3 weeks in San Diego before hitching back to Portland all over again. It should be fun!

I want to hear from you… leave a comment below with a destination we should definitely see!