Our First RV Vacation

While we live fulltime in our RV, we actually stay stable in certain places for one to four months at a time while we workamp. (See this previous post about our 2015 plan to workamp and live without paying rent.) However, we have been lucky enough to schedule our workamping positions so that we have a week or two off in between jobs, allowing for many vacations throughout the year. During these vacations we plan to explore and work on our family motto of Live Your Life!

We are now completing our first such week, here’s where we have been and what we did with our time:

 

We left our first, amazing placement at Thus Far Farm on Saturday, March 28th with some tears shed and a catch in our hearts, but ready for adventure.  Our first stop was only an hour away at Talluah Gorge State Park in Talluah Falls, Georgia where we hiked, saw waterfalls and crossed the scary hanging bridge. (My kids say I’m the only one who thinks it’s scary!)

 

 

Next we headed to the Great Smoky Mountains – on the North Carolina side - where we explored a historic farm and then drove through the steep, snow covered mountains, enjoying beautiful views and crossing our fingers that our old RV would make it – it did!

 

 

Our third stop was in Knoxville where the kids enjoyed The Muse – a science and discovery museum, planetarium and the playground just outside it for hours.

 

 

For our fourth stop, we were supposed to go to the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky, but our GPS led us only to the supervisor’s office, not to an entrance. Instead, we found a local state park – Fort Boonseborough and enjoyed hiking around a Civil War Fort, Native American dwellings and playing near the river.

 

 

When we hit Cincinnati, Ohio, we stopped at the Cincinnati Museum Center which houses multiple museums in an old train station. We only attended the Natural History Museum because it was what was covered by our NSTC pass, but it was more than big enough to explore and enjoy the day, including a cave and a trading post where the boys were able to win fossils of their own with their work on the daily scavenger hunt.

 

 

Next stop was Columbus, Ohio and their famous COSI museum.  This had to be the biggest and most amazing museum that we ever went to. It was packed because of a combination of Spring Break and rainy weather, but there was tons to explore from the Progress exhibit that showed how life had changed from 1898 to 1962 to the hands on Gadgets exhibit to the “Kidspace that was like a separate kids museum inside the larger museum. We spent five hours at the COSI and still didn’t see it all.

 

 

The last stop on our journey – before we head for our new WWOOF position on Earthen Farm in Bangor, Michigan – is in Dundee, OH at Evergreen RV Resort where my father drove in from Buffalo to spend Easter weekend with us.  The campground has a lovely indoor pool and hot tub as well as tons of events for the kids for Easter. Plus we’re right in Amish country!  Great way to end a great week.

According to my son the best part about the whole vacation was that no matter where we went, he got to sleep in his own bed each and every night! Having our own RV is paying off these days.