My husband J is usually the one that get’s the idea of traveling and then after a hours and hours of reasearch we begin the planning of the trip.

He usually begins with Google, just looking at what to do and where to do it kind of thing. But he has an amazing sense of organization that he begins to plan everything in a Excel Spreadsheet. I know that there are so many apps or other programs that helps to plan a trip, but he just do it the old fashion way.

He begins planning the days that we are going to be there, and what are the best trails and how they are divided in hard, moderate or easy category.

He does a lot of reaserch! when I look at his computer he has like 50 windows open with all the things that have to be done in a specific location. The first thing that he does is to find a specific campground.

He goes to recreation.gov and plans the specific campsites. When you are planning to camp remember that there are national parks that you have to reserve your camping spot 6 months in advance! Once he finds a campsite and reserve it he begins to plan what to do depending on the location of the campsite. From there once he has the camping amenities he begins to plan what to do around it.

Usually I am a big Pintrest fan, and I begin telling him what are the places that are very scenic. There are many places that people recommend us to go, but it all depends on how far are those places and the miles between them. After we find the options that we want to see and explore, we began looking at revews at Trip Advisor and what people say about those places. When we travel, we have to take in consideration that there are many opinions on what people like and do not like, we all observe the world diferently and if you believe an option is not very worthty to visit take in consideration that I might think is an amazing place to visit.

Another main factor that we take in consideration is food! We just love the reviews from Guy’s Fieri This trail is terrifying, but don’t worry they have chains to help you on your trail. Dine’s Drivers and Dives. He finds all this local places that are very interesting and if we liked some of the restaurants that he talks about it on the show we usually drive to that location! Once I finds a camp site that he likes and works for both of us . If there is no campsite in the park that work for us he looks for local campsites and books it until he finds it. After that first campsite is booked the rest of the trip is set! (hehe not really), but it help us and guide us were do we want to go, and what are the locations that we liked.

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Here is a picture of a map that tell us all the rest areas. The information can be found at http://restareas.appspot.com/

Depending on the rest areas and we plan our amount of driving that we do. We usually drive 3 hours maximum and we stop for stretching, coffee and snacks. Once he set’s up that rest area he finds the closest city near the first national park or destination that we want to go.

In the long run the key of any trip is to have fun, enjoy your time and discover what the world and nature have to offer you. We live in a time that we have to produce and have money to be happy, but for us money is not the most important thing. Our life philosophy is to enjoy life, respect each other and work together towards a same goal, the goal of being happy and to enjoying every second that we can.

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