re: Would you do a long road trip vacation?

We did a chunk of driving the first day through places like Iowa, but we slowed down once we hit South Dakota. We hit places like the Corn Palace and Wall Drug. We stayed a couple of days in the Wall area and hit the Badlands and the Minuteman Middle site (very cool...had to get their early because they only allow a certain amount of people in per day. Going 20 stories underground was awesome).

We then drove to Rapid City and made that our base. We visited Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Wind Cave, Sturgis, and Tombstone. We also drove to Wyoming to see the Devil's Tower...one of my bucket list items since the move Close Encounters of the Third Kind was shot in Mobile.

All in all, it was one of my family's favorite trips. When we did the Grand Canyon, we stayed at a lot of the vintage Route 66 motels. My daughter's were little so we watched the movie Cars before going and then picked out places that inspired the movie. They loved that! They were both special trips.