Posing on the brink of the Angel’s Landing knife edge.
The Pit Stops for Kids family does our best to do more than ‘talk the talk’ of family travel: we pack up the kids and walk the walk…through rainforests and woods, deserts and beaches, striving to take our kids beyond the boundaries of what they know of our corner of the natural world. I suppose it’s no surprise that our top travel moments have occurred on just such ‘foreign’ soil as our own national parks, a land which, despite many visits, remains largely undiscovered:
10. Watching Toby canoe across Grand Teton’s Jackson Lake under a mid-morning sun.
9. Feeling swallowed whole in the cold and eerie gloom of the Oregon Caves’ Passageway of the Whale.
8. Nate’s absolute joy upon dipping his bread into Many Glacier Hotel’s famous Swiss fondue.
7. Toby’s deep breath before disappearing into an ancient kiva within Mesa Verde’s Puebloan ruins.
6. Coming to a ‘black bear traffic stop’ on Glacier’s Going to the Sun Road.
5. Sweating in the rock solid desert heat under Arches National Park’s Double Arch.
4. Spending a lazy afternoon escaping Yellowstone’s crowds in the Firehole River.
3. Attempting to traverse the ‘knife edge’ on Zion National Park’s Angel’s Landing (and failing to find the nerve).
2. Standing amid the utter isolation of Death Valley’s empty landscape.
1. Watching my kids sworn into 12 junior ranger programs in two years.
This post has been entered in the Grandtourismo HomeAway Holiday-Rentals travel blogging competition in conjunction with HomeAwayUK.
