Posts will be delayed from time to time since we are moving often and Internet connectivity is predictably spotty. It is particularly hard to find the time to edit/upload a 220MB video like the one below.

The trip is going as we expected, for the most part. Breathtaking scenery, lots of driving, kids eager to explore and be on their own. A few things we have learned that may or may not be valuable to others:

1. Every stop takes 4x longer than you expect. We planned to quickly stop for 15 minutes to fill up and make lunch. One hour and 15 minutes later, we are cleaning up spills, finding a place to put the 4 lb of cherries we just bought and wondering how we are going to fix the chip in our windshield (turns out it was already chipped and fixed).
2. Four-year-old boys are crazy loud! They whisper at a volume you would think is reserved for a Seahawks game. We have told Kellan to quiet down 300 times and at this point it is clear it is not going to sink in.
3. RVs get really shitty mileage and everything breaks. We did under 6 mpg for the first 200 miles. In addition, we already have a broken storage latch, wood panel molding, and the fresh water gauge doesn’t work. We thought we chipped the windshield and spent an absurd amount of time trying to find a convenient place to fix it…but it turns out it was already chipped and fixed, and we just overlooked it on the inspection.
4. If you let the kids run off on their own they may not get eaten by bears (yet), but they will bring back some crazy stuff. Greta came leaping into the RV with half a deer rib cage and vertebrae. At least we think it was a deer.

We are now in Glacier and looking forward to not driving tomorrow! Here is the video from the first leg.