I was recently talking with my sister-in-law about our family's upcoming trip to Guatemala, and she asked if we'd be blogging about it. Great idea, Patty! I always intend to journal when traveling, but never do as much as I'd like. Hiding those journals away in a drawer once I get home also isn't quite the great memorial I had in mind. Will bringing back the McBerkoblog be an easier way to keep notes and pictures about our trip? Time shall tell. In the meantime, I'm just glad to find that I can still log in and post. :)
Dear reader - and here I'm speaking primarily to myself, as I'm writing mainly to document these memories for my own future enjoyment - I must apologize. I barely captured anything here about our Costa Rica trip in summer 2024, and nothing at all about our two weeks in Prague and Vienna in 2025. Maybe someday I'll catch up, but in the meantime, let's forge ahead! This summer we're staying in the US. Time for a nearly 6-week long road trip! Why now? Ruth will be a senior in high school next year, so this might (?) be the last time we can all do such a long trip together. Bill quit his job in April (yay for FIRE, aka Financial Independence / Retire Early... but that's a whole separate post), so we've got this short window where we all have the time freedom to do it. Here's the plan: Leg 1 - Raleigh west to Denver. We'll visit Asheville, Chattanooga, Huntsville, Memphis, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, and Great Sand Dunes National Park along the...