Five Years of Blogging & Ten Years of Road Trips!

This week marks 5 years since we started this family travel blog. We started road tripping in summer 2012, so it’s a double celebration of 10 years of road tripping and 5 years of sharing our adventures on our little corner of the ‘web.

We’re proud to share that we’ve gained a LOT of followers and readers over the past two years (since we last did a Google analytics deep drive) and we thought this week would be a perfect time to share a blog recap. Note: At the start of 2022 we transferred our blog to a WordPress host and some of the photo displays are off- we’ve been working diligently to fix the layouts, but it takes time.

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New England based, part high school English teacher, part non profit founder, part road tripper who LOVES hopping in the family SUV to explore America. Our bucket list includes National Parks, MLB stadiums, presidential libraries, and eating wherever the locals eat!

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11 Comments

  1. Two great milestones, congrats! You’ve definitely visited some amazing places, excited to check out more of your guides!

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  2. Looks like you’ve had lots of great travels as a family! This is a great way to round up all of those adventures and it seems you all have been quite busy the last few years. Congratulations on your 5 year Blogiversary.

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  3. Congratulations on 5 years of blogging! It’s been so fun following your adventures, and I can’t wait to see where you’re headed next!

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  4. It really looks like you had a lot of fun with you family.
    I wish you another 100 years of traveling discovering the world with them.

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  6. Congratulations! I’m sure the last 10 years of road trips have been so rewarding to your family and especially your kids. There is no better educator than travel. Looking forward to following you for another 10 years of road trips and 5 more years of blogging.

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  8. Congratulations on these impressive milestones! I love this fun post to celebrate the occasion! I can’t wait to see what the next 5 years has in store!

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  9. What an amazing milestone! I loved seeing how your children grew over the years 🙂 Wishing you 10 more years of road trips, fun, and new memories.

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  11. Professional, inspiring, comprehensive, and most enjoyable. Congrats on a job well done! You have been a huge help to SO many others and I trust your contributions over the next five years will grow exponentially….

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