Journey of a Lifetime
Skylar 
This past year has been a busy one. With our baby girl Taylor growing day by day, Alyssa working full time, working on her master’s degree, and Skylar flying every time the weather gets good (which hasn’t been a lot lately) we have been enjoying all the moments. Alyssa is finishing up the 2018-2019 school … Read more
We have been so busy this year and sorry for not updating much over the past few months. First and most important is we had our baby girl Taylor Rose Neilson. She was born March 26th 2018 in the evening and Alyssa went through a rough labor but fortunately decided to finally do an epidural … Read more
It was a last minute decision for a quick pre-baby vacation and another check off on the bucket-list. We decided to take the Prius for another little expedition to Phoenix Arizona, this time the weather was beautiful and perfect. We left at 5:20 am with tickets in hand to drive the 5 and half hours … Read more
We want to keep you updated on our recent adventures as we haven’t blogged in awhile. We unfortunately haven’t had any vacations to any exciting places recently and there are a few reasons why. Firstly Alyssa had to go back to teaching a couple weeks earlier than most schools and our summer was cut short. … Read more
As Alyssa is a huge baseball fan it’s her’s and my goal to visit all the stadiums. Since we missed Phoenix’s stadium on our adventurous road trip last year we made it a goal this summer to visit the Diamondbacks, even though the best time to go to Arizona is for Spring training when all … Read more
This post is a little late but is still worthy of posting. Earlier this year we tried to make it a goal to hike to the top of Half Dome since I (Skylar) had never done it before and Alyssa had done it a couple of times before. So two weeks before Alyssa had to … Read more
Although we were not able to take our Prius on this journey we still like to think we did take it. Our 50th State visited was the beautiful and majestic state of Alaska. Rather than achieving another long intensive drive to Alaska we took the lazy route with a cruise departing from Seattle. This way … Read more
Better check the tires Before the trip I had a good feeling to look at the tires since we hadn’t changed them since we bought the car. While inspecting the tires I found that at least one of the tires had worn down past the tread and to the metal wires. So we took the … Read more
After our long and amazing journey across the United States we were not able to travel much due to Alyssa starting teaching again at Orange County School of the Arts. We were thinking of making a trip up to Utah during Thanksgiving break but were forced to stay home when Alyssa signed us up to … Read more
To say there was a single highlight of our long journey would be impossible. We saw so much that most people would most likely never see nor visit in their lifetime. We have made a list of some of our key favorites we got to experience on this amazing once-in-a-lifetime road trip. Top Highlights of … Read more