LAST UPDATED September 27, 2025
Content includes:
- Planned/Possible Travel, through 2025
- Near-Term Plans (Reservations) next ~3-6 months
- Bucket List
- Archive of executed plans since January 2023
Latest Updates/Near Term Plans Overview
4th Quarter 2025 Plans…wrapping up 3Q2025, heading to visit with NE family & attend our 50th RPI Reunion! Then we’ll be heading south via the Carolina Capitols to Charleston, and flying home for the holidays on Novemeber 7. 2026 will start in NJ with family and then back to Charleston to pick up Lizzy and head to Florida for part of the winter.
And after that?
After we hang around Florida for a bit, we think we’ll head back northeast, via Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia Capitols. After Family visits, we hope to drive the Trans-Canada Highway, East to West, Junish thru Septemberish.
[A visit to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands (6 National Parks) is being pushed to…2027?]
Outline of Planned & Possible Travel, by Quarter
Near-Term Plans (more detail and reservations)
3Q 2025 Outline
- July 1-3 Complete
Home! - July 4-August 2 Complete & FANTASTIC!
ALASKA!!! - August 3-19 Complete
Home! - August 20-Sept 16
X-Country East to Chicago (I-94/I90) Complete - Sept 16-Oct 20
MW & NE Family & RPI 50 Reunion
Bucket List Items
Tracked “Biggies”
Other places/trips we’re adding to our list!
- Alaska (a good bit in July 2025)
- 4-Corners (of UT,CO,NM,AZ)
- Route 66 (have done big pieces)
- Great River Road (did north in 2024)
- Trans-Canada Highway (summer 2026?)
- X-Country Train Trip
- New Zealand & Australian
We’ve also starting compiling a list of all the places we missed, first time through, due to weather or time, which we’d visit on another visit to the area. We might link it in here, if Gail gets it a bit more organized.
ARCHIVE – 1Q 2023 to 1Q 2025 (in reverse order)
2Q 2025 Outline
- April 1-30 Complete
MLB Stadiums north thru CA to Home! - April 30-May 22 Complete
Home in Bellevue - May 22-June 11 Complete
Grandkids Jersey Shore-Family in MA - June 12-July 3 Complete
Home in Bellevue
1Q 2025
- November 12-January 2 Complete
Home in Bellevue! - January 2-13 Complete
Visit Grandkids on the Jersey Shore! - January 14-27 Complete
Arkansas Part 2 (incl Cane River, LA) - January 28-March 8 Complete
Across southern Texas - March 8-31 Complete
El Paso to Phoenix (route TBD)
4Q 2024
- September 17-19, October 4-9 Complete
Minneapolis - September 19-October 4 Complete
Whirlwind NE Trip - October 9-29 Complete
Great River Road & Route 66 south from Minneapolis - October 9-November 12 Complete
Arkansas Part 1 - November 12-January 2 Complete
Home in Bellevue!
3Q 2024
- June 28 -July 17 Complete
Lake Lashaway & Jersey Shore with Family - July 17-August 17 Complete
Poconos to Niagara, to Michigan Upper Peninsula - August 17-September 17 Complete
Around and ON Lake Superior - September 17-19, October 4-9 Complete
Minneapolis - September 19-October 4 Complete
Whirlwind NE Trip
2Q 2024
- March 13-April 18 Complete
Southern Appalachians—Blue Ridge Parkway to Shenandoah to NJ! - April 18-29 Complete
NJ with Family - April 30-June 12 Complete
Home in Bellevue, LOTS of work! - June 12-27 –> July Complete
NJ with Family…Lake Lashaway with Family
1Q 2024
- January 2 – February 8 Complete
Around Florida along Gulf Coast to New Orleans - February 9 – March 13 Complete
Confederacy & Civil Rights…Baton Rouge across Mississippi thru Alabama - March 13-April 18 Complete
Southern Appalachians—NE Alabama thru the Smoky Mountains
4Q 2023
- October 9-23 Complete
Hudson Valley, NY & NJ Family Weekend - October 23- November 10 Complete
South to South Carolina - November 10-December 10 Complete
4 weeks Home in Bellevue - December 10 through New Year Complete
South on coast, Charleston SC to Titusville, Florida,
Holidays with Gail’s Aunt & Cousins in Cocoa, Florida
3Q 2023
- June 30- September 5 Complete
Summer Near Family in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, & Rhode Island and some touring (details below) - September 6-October 9 Complete
Fall Foliage, etc. through northern New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont)
2Q 2023
- April 1 – Trinity Site Open House!!! Complete
- April 2-May 7 – Prairie/Midwest Dash Complete
…Hightail it from New Mexico to Pittsburgh, PA via Midwest Capitol Cities Complete - May 8-June 1 – Home in Bellevue Complete
- June 2-19 – Pittsburgh to Jersey Shore Complete
- June 20-29 – Mid Atlantic Loop (by car) Complete
1Q 2023
- January 14-31 Complete
Heading South thru Oregon and California - February 1-19 Complete
East across Southern Arizona - February 20-March 31 Complete
New Mexico, especially the “Nuclear Corridor”
Cancelled Guadalupe Mts NP Camping! - April 1 – Trinity Site Open House!!! Complete
Northeast Summer 2023 Details – Fathers Day to Labor Day Complete
When
- June 16-19
- June 20-29
.. - June 30-July 13
- July 14-27
July 21-23 - July 28-August 4
- August 5-9
- August 10-16
- August 17-21
- August 22-30
- August 31-Sept 5
Do What
- Grandkids! Hang out. Complete
- Visit Philadelphia, eastern Maryland & Delaware, Gail’s niece & Mark’s sister Complete
- Visit MA Family & Friends Complete
- Grandkids! Hang out. Complete
Gail 70th Bday Party in EB, MA Complete - Visit NYC, Long Island, Mount Vernon, NY Complete
- Gail Family Reunion, Connecticut Shore Complete
- Explore Boston, Cape Cod Complete
- Explore Rhode Island Shore Complete
- Grandkids! Hang out Complete
- Visit MA Family/Friends, Gail mini HS Reunion Complete
Stay Where
- Jackson, NJ
- Hotels –Lizzy in Shop
– - Sturbridge, MA
- Jackson, NJ
.. - Jersey City, NJ
- Old Lyme, CT
- Sandwich, MA
- Charlestown, RI
- Jackson, NJ
- Sturbridge, MA
KEY: Color Highlights for stays near: Jersey Shore & Grandkids and New England Family.