103 Summer Travels Montana Yellowstone Midwest Road Trip

It is time for another summer catch up! This week, Kim shares about her experience visiting Yellowstone and Montana with Adventures by Disney. And Tamara fills us in on her 3,600 mile mother-daughter road trip through eight states in fourteen days! ON THE PODCAST 00:30 - Presenting Sponsor The Family Backpack 01:04 - Talking with Kim and Tamara 01:43 - Kim’s trip to Yellowstone with Adventures by Disney 03:50 - Adventure guides 05:05 - Getting to Yellowstone 06:12 - Mammoth Hot Springs 07:30 - Lamar Valley 10:13 - Stagecoach lunch 11:41 - Luggage with Adventures by Disney 13:06 - Grand Canyon of Yellowstone 13:53 - Under Canvas 16:03 - Junior Adventures Program 18:18 - West Yellowstone 19:15 - White water river rafting 19:45 - 320 Guest Ranch 25:21 - Zipline adventures 26:51 - Tamara’s midwest road trip 29:52 - Time in Milwaukee 35:29 - Art in Minneapolis 39:11 - Minnehaha falls and Mall of America 43:10 - Long drive to North Dakota 47:33 - Theodore Roosevelt National Park 51:47 - Motorcycles in South Dakota 53:03 - City of Omaha 58:19 - Iowa State Fair 1:00:55 - Drive to Chicago 1:01:44 - Hamilton in Chicago 1:03:18 - Using the Chicago CityPass 1:05:26 - Kim and Tamara’s favorite travel gear 1:11:03 - Contact Vacation Mavens if you are interested in being on their show ABOUT FAMILY BACKPACK Our presenting sponsor is The Family Backpack, a time-and stress-saving tool for parents researching and planning family vacations. The Family Backpack has researched and curated over 2,000 posts from over 200 blogs to provide parents the best of family travel content from over 600 destinations worldwide – all in one easily searchable place. Whether trekking around your own city, road tripping with your kids or flying around the world, visit TheFamilyBackpack.comfor itineraries, tips, packing lists, tons of travel inspiration and more! FAVORITE TRAVEL GEAR Tamara has recently found that she love to wear her ‘Prana’skort as well as other skorts. She also made really great use of her daypack sling bag. While Kim loves her ‘Eddie Bauer’ jacket. MENTIONED ON THE PODCAST Adventures by Disney Guy taunting Bison Under Canvas 320 Guest Ranch Amble Inn Gwen Hotel Eataly Chicago Prana Eddie Bauer FOLLOW US AND SPREAD THE WORD! If you liked this show, please be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, orGoogle Playand leave us a review! Have a question or comment? Send us an email or leave us a voicemail at +1.641.715.3900, ext. 926035# You can also follow our travels on Stuffed Suitcaseand We3Travel, or follow the Vacation Mavens on Instagram, Facebookor Twitter. Thanks for listening!