Before we left for New York City I spent a great deal of time researching the best ways to see the sights in New York City with two small children. I was worried we would miss so much dealing with strollers, trains, and diaper bags and I depseratly just wanted to take it all in. I knew there was so much-too much to see so I went into the trip knowing and understanding we weren’t going to see it all. But I was hoping that maybe we could at least see a good chunk of it.

That’s when I came across Gray Line Tours hop on hop off bus tour. It seemed like the perfect opportunity for us to be able to see the sights and not wear out our children completely.

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For those of you who are following our 12 travel challenges in 2012 column for the Deseret News, just wanted to let you know our third challenge is published. Our third challenge was to complete a red-eye flight. We completed it last month on our way to New York City.

Thank you to all who entered our fun little giveaway! I wish I had books to send to everyone, talking, thinking and reading about travel makes me happy so I love to share that with others! If you didn’t win make sure to check out the book and the website!

I used a random number generator and came up with these numbers:

14, 15, and 24

so congrats to:

Winners look for an email from me- I need your addresses so we can get them shipped off asap.

view of the mountains and coast along the beautiful Seward Highway in Alaska

Summer is coming up which means it’s time for summer vacations! Since we typically try to travel in the off-season summer is usually our stay at home time, or hit the road time. Us along with about half of the country. But much to Reid’s dismay I really don’t enjoy road trips. In fact I really dislike them. I know- road trips are about as American as apple pie and baseball (two others of Reid’s favorites). But after seeing this list that Yahoo put together, I may join the bandwagon and hit the road.

Yahoo released it’s list recently of 10 great all-American road trips. These distinctive routes include both roads less traveled and tried-and-true must-sees throughout the country’s finest landscapes. Reid and I put together have done 8 out of 10 of these drives. Yahoo did a really great job- starting with my ALL TIME favorite road trip that I would do over and over again (I’m serious please promise me you will make this drive once in your life!):

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Magnolia Bakery cupcake

These are my favorite stories to experience but the hardest to write about. Especially coming back from New York City and thinking about all the amazing food we ate. We didn’t do much- but we did eat. It’s a really good thing I don’t live there- let’s just put it that way. Besides the pizza, my favorite thing we ate (twice!) and we failed to get pictures of because we scarfed it down so fast was the middle eastern Halal food we got from a food truck near our hotel. So good.

Here is a roundup of some our favorites we tasted in New York.

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