Today we left on our trip to North Carolina and Virgina. It's a hefty drive of about thirteen hours. Bob wanted to try to make it in two days, but I drive back and forth to New Hampshire a lot with the kids, and knowing that if we drive during the day, the three and a half hour drive can take almost six, I was set on planning for three.
Traveling with kids does take longer, but I also spent a lot of time on the Roadtrippers app researching fun places we could stop on the way to break up the trip.
With today being the longest leg, I added in the most stops.
Stop one: waterfall hike. Thank goodness for Roadtrippers and Waze because when we turned into the entrance for a Dominican Nunnery, I was sure I'd chosen poorly. But sure enough, we found a short hike to a waterfall! I did not plan on the weather still being so cold so early in the morning, but it was nice to get out and stretch, and we saw our first signs of spring: crocuses!!
Our next stop was
supposed to be at a dinosaur field with many life-sized dinosaur replicas. We were going to hang out with them and have lunch. Here, our RoadTrippers App had a little hiccup because we ended up at a playground with dinosaur playground equipment instead. Fortunately, the girls didn't know the difference. It was so cold we could barely stay out to play before eating in the van, so I'm sure we would have been disappointed to pay to see dinosaurs in the freezing windy weather.
We had another playground stop scheduled for the afternoon. And though I really hoped the weather would improve since we were driving south, it was STILL cold and windy.
The last stop of the day before calling it a night and swimming in the hotel pool (highlight of the day for the girls) was the giant doctor's bag. Worth stopping? Eh, it was 5 minutes off our path and pretty funny. Only because we were close to being done driving for the day.
