May was such a busy month! We took a delightful vacation, we got the VW bus out for a couple trips! We camped in the bus for the first time since October! And we celebrated so many birthdays, with so much good food! In some ways, life feels like it’s almost back to normal, but maybe the real change is that we’ve been spending so much time outside again!
We’ve had some major hurdles with traveling by VW bus, especially during a pandemic. We’re flipping our plans upside down for now! In the meantime, we enjoyed our best nights of camping yet, free campgrounds with amazing views and the most beautiful full moon I’ve ever seen!
We joined up with Route 66 and have started playing a fun game of i-spy, trying to find the road signs and make all the right turns. We’re stopping at all the photo ops we can, and I’m surprised at how much fun it’s been!
We tie up some loose ends and make our last visits with friends, and then it’s us and the open road! First stop, a state park with amazing hiking trails. We hiked until our knees gave out at Turkey Run State Park!
Our last few weeks in Michigan were packed with fun activities. Birthdays, art night, VW bus projects, and bonfires! We had such a great summer, but it’s time to wrap things up and head back south!
We took a week-long road trip, following M22 along Michigan’s beautiful coastline. We spent time at Sleeping Bear Dunes, we hit up some breweries, we met up with family, and we even took our VW bus to a couple car shows!
We left Indiana Sunday morning, but the bus was struggling to maintain power. This is the story of how a 3 hour trip took us 10 hours!
We summit the mountains and take over the plains in today’s post on driving the bus up to Michigan. We’ve been meeting people everywhere we stop, today’s post includes two unique encounters! Finally, we see some amazing fall colors and I take about seven hundred pictures (but don’t worry, I didn’t post them all!).
I hoped to see some fall colors on our road trip, and the trees did not disappoint! Our Volkswagen bus trip culminates in some phenomenal oranges and reds!
After a tiny test drive, we’re all in: it’s time to drive the bus up to Michigan! Volkswagen bus road trip!
The day starts out great, blue skies and fun stops. Towards the end of the day, however, we start hearing a new rattle (or is it a squeak?!) as we enter the windy ups and downs of the mountains in Virginia. Unsure of what part is about to fail, and quickly losing daylight, we’re forced to make some tough choices about where we stay for the night. As the temps drop, we’ve got to make a call!
As soon as our parts come in, we get right to work assembling and installing the engine. Then, fine tuning, minor adjustments, and we’re up and running!