EAA AirVenture—the world’s greatest aviation celebration—runs the last Monday each July. The event, held in Oshkosh, Wisconsin draws over half a million annual visitors from around the globe; hotel rooms and camp sites within a 60-mile radius book up a…
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Located about thirty minutes north of downtown Muskegon, Michigan is Duck Lake State Park. Considered a day use park (as in, hiking, skiing, fishing, picnicking, but no camping), Duck Lake State Park is spread out over 728-acres and encompasses the…
Last summer, my kids and I participated in KaBoom!’s second annual Park-A-Day Challenge (now the Summer Playground Challenge). The goal of the challenge was to help KaBoom! create a national “Map of Play.” We visited over 50 parks in the…
A broken windshield this week on our mega summer road trip had us thinking about the importance of windshields. Not something that typically keeps us up nights. But, did you know that most auto safety experts rate your windshield as…
Road trips and public toilets go hand in hand. Lucas, Kansas has taken that to a whole new level with their new World’s Most Artsy Public Toilets.
Turn a rush through Kansas into a tour of the world’s largest everything. From The World’s Most Artsy Public Toilets to the World’s Largest Ball of Twine, Kansas has some of the best road trip stops in the US.