Crater Lake to Laytonville, California
Total: 409 miles
5,546 combined miles so far
DISCLOSURE: Disney Parks and Buick are sponsors of the PapiBlogger Making Memories Family Road Trip. This year’s PapiMobile is a 2011 Buick Enclave
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PapiBlogger Making Memories Family Road Trip Tracker: July 31
Posted by PapiBlogger on Sunday July 31st, 2011 at 12:34 AMDay 17 of the Miami to Alaska Family Road Trip: Flying Over and Walking on Glaciers in Skagway
Posted by PapiBlogger on Saturday July 30th, 2011 at 09:31 AM
Majestic. God-inspired awesome. Breath-taking.
Neither pictures nor words can fully describe the unfathomable beauty of what our family beheld in Skagway, Alaska during the 17th day of our epic journey from Miami to Alaska.
A Helicopter Ride for the Ages
The seeds for a great day took root last night when we learned at the last moment that a slot had miraculously opened up for us to board a helicopter in Skagway for an extraordinary excursion that involved flying to and landing on a remote gorgeous glacier.
Briani sat next to me for our flight to the Meade Glacier.
PapiBlogger Making Memories Family Road Trip Tracker: July 30
Posted by PapiBlogger on at 12:17 AM
Rosburg, Oregon to Crater Lake, Oregon
Total: 154 miles
DISCLOSURE: Disney Parks and Buick are sponsors of the PapiBlogger Making Memories Family Road Trip. This year’s PapiMobile is a 2011 Buick Enclave
Day 16 of the Miami to Alaska Family Road Trip: Our First Awesome Encounter with an Alaskan Glacier
Posted by PapiBlogger on Friday July 29th, 2011 at 03:24 PM
The third day on our special boat trip to Alaska marks the beginning of four consecutive days of what my wife and I call the Natural Geographic experience aboard the Disney Wonder cruise to Alaska. These are the meaty adventures that lured us here and if today is any barometer for what’s to come this ocean voyage part of our 40-day Miami to Alaska vacation is only going to be more spectacular.
Character Breakfast
We began our favorite day on the ship so far with the much anticipated character breakfast at the Parrot Cay restaurant. Every passenger gets this priviledge so you want to be sure that when you go on your Disney cruise you don’t miss breakfast on that day. Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Chip n Dale and our daugthers’ favorite Goofy all came by (more…)
Day 15 of the Miami to Alaska Family Road Trip: Exploring the Disney Wonder
Posted by PapiBlogger on at 02:02 AM
The Golden Mickey's was a major highlight of our second day aboard the Disney Wonder. Broadway quality revues with Disney characters makes this cruise uniquely suited for families like ours.
You would think my wife and I are cruise ship experts.
We love to travel and live in Miami, cruise ship capital of the world. We’ve been to nearly every state in the nation, trekked thru chunks of Europe and seen most of Latin America. My wife and I have even been to Rwanda and the Congo in hard to reach central Africa.
Despite our extensive travel history, we don’t have anything to show for cruise ships. Our Disney Wonder voyage to Alaska is my wife’s first cruise and only my second.
On this second day of our great journey to Alaska, (more…)
PapiBlogger Making Memories Family Road Trip Tracker: July 27
Posted by PapiBlogger on Wednesday July 27th, 2011 at 10:38 PM
Seaside, Oregon to Lincoln
Total: 116 miles
DISCLOSURE: Disney Parks and Buick are sponsors of the PapiBlogger Making Memories Family Road Trip. This year’s PapiMobile is a 2011 Buick Enclave
Day 14 of the Miami to Alaska Family Road Trip: To Alaska Aboard the Disney Wonder
Posted by PapiBlogger on Tuesday July 26th, 2011 at 11:13 PM
You’ve seen this part of the movie a million times. A ship full of sea weary men spots a beach and as they come ashore they throw themselves atop the sand, thrilled to be on land again.
On Day 14 of our family vacation that is the exact opposite picture of what we felt when we finally, mercifully boarded the Disney Wonder in Vancouver, British Columbia. After all the trials and tribulations of the past week our cruise aboard the Disney Wonder represents rest, recovery and new adventures.
Exhausted but looking forward to rest and fun aboard the Disney Wonder.
Welcome Aboard, Disney-style!
First impressions are so important and that’s why you’ve got to hand it to Disney: they “get” this principle in spades. (more…)
Papiblogger Making Memories Family Road Trip Tracker: July 26
Posted by PapiBlogger on at 10:29 PM
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to Seaside, Oregon
Total: 397 miles
DISCLOSURE: Disney Parks and Buick are sponsors of the PapiBlogger Making Memories Family Road Trip. This year’s PapiMobile is a 2011 Buick Enclave
Day 12 of Miami to Alaska Family Road Trip: Life in the PapiMobile
Posted by PapiBlogger on Monday July 25th, 2011 at 04:34 AM
On Day 12 of our family road trip we had a long driving day from Grand Teton National Park to Butte, Montana so today I thought I would pause to share some insights on what we do to make such a long journey possible with three kids and two adults in the PapiMobile.
My Wife Drives and I Blog
Yes, it’s true, my wife – recent root canal surgery and all – drives the Buick Enclave nearly 90% of the time while I blog. Thank God my wife is the iron woman when it comes to driving because I seem to have whatever you call someone who literally can’t drive for more than one hour without dozing off.
If you think that’s easy for me, it’s not. Gathering information, checking facts, writing content, (more…)
Day 10 of Family Road Trip from Miami to Alaska: Driving thru Wondrous and Wacky Wyoming
Posted by PapiBlogger on Friday July 22nd, 2011 at 03:47 PM
Buford, Wyoming is truly the nation's smallest city.
Day 10 of the Family Road Trip was a true road day with a journey that started in Manitou Springs, Colorado and didn’t finish until 600 miles north in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park.
Wyoming’s Beauty is Practically Unmatched
Everyone who knows about Wyoming seems to discover it because it is where you must go to visit Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park or to go skiing in Jackson Hole during the winter. (more…)
Day 9 of Family Road Trip from Miami to Alaska: Garden of the Gods and Pike’s Peak
Posted by PapiBlogger on Wednesday July 20th, 2011 at 09:30 AM
Photographing all of the Garden of the Gods top spots is unusually easy by car.
On Day 9 of our family road trip the PapiMobile came to a virtual halt in Colorado as we paused from days of heavy driving and medical emergencies only to accidentally discover the majesty of Colorado Spring’s Garden of the Gods, Pike’s Peak and the quaint little town of Manitou Springs.
Garden of the Gods
The Garden of the Gods is one of Colorado Springs’ best bets for family travel and exploration. The park is considered a national natural landmark and was named Garden of the Gods in the late 1800s when two men who came to survey the land got into a discussion about whether the land looked like a garden of beer or a Garden of the Gods. It’s been named Garden of the Gods ever since.
On the right is the famous Balanced Rock. Our PapiMobile has really been traveling through precious lands of America.
Papiblogger Making Memories Family Road Trip Tracker-July 19th
Posted by PapiBlogger on Tuesday July 19th, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Bellingham, Washington to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Total: 56 miles
DISCLOSURE: Disney Parks and Buick are sponsors of the PapiBlogger Making Memories Family Road Trip. This year’s PapiMobile is a 2011 Buick Enclave
