We were on the road for less than five minutes when one of the scouts got a flat tire.

What can I say, he’s my kid. The lure to swim was simply too great.

For four years, G3 has talked about his Boy Scout trip to Block Island. It was his first Boy Scout camping trip and also his favorite.

My fear was that no one would show up. Kati promised me that wouldn’t happen. That people would want to be there to support me, and she was absolutely right.

Ugh! We are home. We put more than 10,000 miles on the car.

He has been to houses lived in by 40 presidents—and for some presidents he’s been to two or three houses—which means he only has five more..

In Nashville, we went out to dinner with my brother and then spent some time with him and his cat and dog. Samson, his kitten, is an adorabl

We are camping at Willow Beach Campground, which is on the banks of the Arkansas River. It’s about an hour northeast of Hot Springs.

From Waco, we drove to Dallas to attend the Mesquite Championship Rodeo. A rodeo is something I’ve always wanted to see.

San Antonio is about an hour south of LBJ’s house. I could not in good conscience be that close to the Alamo and not bring G3.

LBJ loved the Texas hill country. It’s where he was born and raised. As a child he loved swimming in the Pedernales River.

Though we all started the night in our hammocks, at some point, Kati moved into the car and G3 got out his sleeping pad and pillow and...

Balmorhea State Park has the largest spring fed swimming pool in the world. It was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Yep, G3 and I went swimming in the Rio Grande—near the Cottonwood campground—and what’s more exciting—we swam to Mexico…

I enjoyed the hike, even though I was alone. It reminded me of all those trips I took abroad before G3 was born.

Today was somewhat of a lazy day. We have one more night here at Guadalupe National Park, but we did more yesterday than we expected.

While Carlsbad has the biggest cave chamber in North America—so large that two US Capitol Buildings could fit inside—Mammoth Cave…

White Sands National Park—unlike Petrified Forest—is exactly what it sounds like. Miles and miles and miles—275 square miles to be exact.

Breaking Bad for G3. Petroglyphs for me. Wine for Kati.

For lunch, G3 wanted to go to Twisters, which in Breaking Bad is Los Pollos Hermanos.