• Travel

    Lava Hot Springs and Sunken Gardens

    Lava Hot Springs was not on our initial itinerary, but when we realized that the entirety of Salt Lake City was booked for the first night of our vacation (thanks so much Young Living ladies for filling up the plane cabin with wafts of oils at every spot of turbulence), I used Google maps to zoom in on various towns looking for spots to stay in route to the Tetons. As the road zigzagged through Idaho, this little town caught my eye. Tubing? Check. Natural hot springs? Check. Affordable rooms? Check. Home Hotel was a short walk from these public pools and Sunken Gardens. While we ended up not tubing…

  • Thoughts,  Travel

    Family Trip Out West Summer 2018

    Be forewarned, I spent a week in the Tetons and Yellowstone national parks with my family, and there are several posts about this trip to come! There are over a thousand photos to sort through, so I  will do it one location and adventure at a time, which will help me relive the trip and remember some of the names of the spots we photographed. There is no way I will be able to recall the name over every mud pot or hot spring, but I plan on linking up some of the National Park Service pages so that maps and information are close at hand. We booked our lodging…