I spend a lot of time talking about tips in planning our National Park adventures but far less time talking about the impact this has on my family. I am a planner. An obsessive planner. And that is both good and bad. It’s great because I think ahead about most scenarios. It’s not so good […]
Today is Mother’s Day and to celebrate the kids and I took my wife to the North Carolina Zoo. Living outside of Raleigh, our family is super fortunate to have access to world-class benefits like the North Carolina Zoo which is located in Asheboro, North Carolina—just a short 90 miles away from our home. The […]
We split up our long drive from southern Florida back home to North Carolina into 2 parts so we spent the night in Jacksonville, Florida. Last year we took a National Park trip on the eastern side of Florida that included Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve. That time we only had time to visit Fort […]
Out of all the National Parks that my family and I planned on visiting this week, the most ambitious (and one I most looked forward to visiting) was Everglades National Park. I say “ambitious” because Everglades National Park spans 1,508,538 acres and contains 4 separate Visitor Centers — each with their own distinct areas of […]
As part of our family’s trip this week to the National Parks of Southern Florida, we visited Biscayne National Park. Biscayne National Park is a very unique site within the National Park system because out of its 172,971 acres, 95% of it is underwater. They say to truly appreciate this National Park, you need to […]
My family and I are spending this Spring Break down in South Florida to visit 3 National Parks: Big Cypress National Preserve, Everglades National Park, and Biscayne National Park. After a day in Fort Myers watching my beloved Red Sox take it to the Phillies at JetBlue Park, we spent the night in Naples and […]