Dec 2016 – April 2017
Philadelphia 4/20 – 4/23
Baltimore 4/11 – 4/20
Washington DC 4/6 – 4/11
Williamsburg / Jamestown / Yorktown, VA 3/30 – 4/5
Myrtle Beach, SC 3/25 – 3/30
Meyers Ice Cream Shop
Tracy Shelling
Best Seafood Buffet Ever
Amazing Ice Cream
Stairway to Bon Jovi?
Camp Fire Singing
Front Porch Looking Out
Giant Crab Buffet Cupcake
Giant Crab Stuffed Face
Goofy faces on the roof
Hanging in Dad’s room
Lotta Neighbors
Lakewood Mini Golf
Lainey’s Sand Castle
The Castle’s Beach
The Big Castle and Town
The Castle’s Red Rocks Theater
Sand Castle Town
South Carolina Sticker
Swimming Ellie
Swimming Lainey
Sydney’s New Friends
View From The Roof
Winner Winner!
Charleston, SC 3/21 – 3/25
Boom!
Lainey in front of Main Garden
Boone Hall Main House
Charleston KOA
Ellie is freezing. It’s 63 degrees out.
Dog Beach
Swings in the forest
Fort Sumter Canons
Ferry to Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter Flag
Fort Sumter Jr Rangers
Adding Georgia to the map
Gullah Education
Boone Hall Historic Cotton Gin Building
Boone Hall Plantation Home
Watch out. Lainey’s got a canon.
So long Florida!
Quarter mile of oaks
Balancing on a boulder.
Rainbow Street – Charletson SC
Plantation Rose Garden
Shabbat Picnic
Typical slave home
Inside a slave house
Boone Hall Slave Street
Touring slave homes
KOA turtles
Boone Hall Wagon Tour
Hello Georgia!
Wet Dog.
Woody The Woodpecker
Fort Pierce & Kennedy Space Center 3/13 – 3/20
1960s Mission Control Room
Look who we found on this wave!
Tall Sunflowers
Flying to Shuttle Atlantis
Bathtub Reef
Sand Logo
My sand writing shell
Great dog beach
Explaining Rockets
Fish head and marine biologist
Fish or Coral?
Pierce Marina
Pierce City
Hollywood background
Feeding Stingrays
Handstands
Wow that’s tall
Jumping waves
Orange farmer Lainey
Feeding fish Fort Pierce
Yes! Mandel Bread!
Mangrove jungle
Surprised by Mark
NASA Rockets
Nurse sharks
Pierce Coca-Cola
Pierce Gas
Pierce Manatee Center
Pierce Marina
Playing at Bathtub Reef
Roadrunner RV Park
Large Sea Turtle
Shuffle Board Time
Those are some large Shuttle boosters.
Ready for the ocean
Surprise friends!
The read Shuttle Atlantis
Wave playing.
Orlando 3/7 – 3/12
About to ride the Hogwarts Express
Gonna go back in time.
Our logo in coffee beans.
Beauty and The Beast garden.
I got big ears.
Huge soccer ball.
Blues Brothers
Floating with Bubbe
Amazing backdrop.
Caramel Apple
Watchin the parade
Darth
Fantasmic at Disney
Disney Parade
Minion Parade
Disney sized pizza
Seuss Ride
Ellie and Pop
Surfer Ellie
Entering Disney
Holding up Epcot
Fantasmic Show
Flat Sammy by the pool
Flat Sammy washing up for dinner
Cooling off at Disney
Goofy glasses
Bubbe on the Hogwarts
Hogwarts Platform
Hogwarts Ride
Pop Ride
Harry Potter Bank
Harry’s Owl
Huge Coke Bottles
I can’t walk anymore
My wand!
It’s eating Dad!
Kung Fu Ellie
Simba and Lainey
Lainey Wizard
Learning some spells
Levitating stuff.
Light sabers
Meeting the Lorax
Lots of beads
Making it rain on Pop
Mardi Gras Parade
Mary Poppins
Minion Hats
Minion Parade High Fives
More Minion parade
Mystery Machine
Opening Night
Parade high fives
Riding the wave
Sharing a tube
Mapigator is asleep
Street Bar Mitzvah
Dancing in the streets
Suess Ride
The actual dress.
Thing 1 and Thing 2
The Train is Coming
Triple Decker Bus
Water boots
Can I get wet?
We match.
We match.
Whole fam at Epcot.
Fort Lauderdale 3/3 – 3/6
Sydney’s new Aussie friends
The Strawberry Queen
Pounds of strawberries
Pool buddies
Interesting fence.
Mmmm beach drinks.
Lainey’s huge Jenga
At Uncle Ron and Carlie’s
Reading Harry Potter
Grandpa in the pool
Ellie’s huge Jenga
Best. Day. Ever.
Aunt Carlie at work
About to get sprayed.
Key West 2/26 – 3/3
Time for the dog beach?
Lots of bridges.
Woah. That’s a serious sand castle.
Asleep at school.
The road to key west.
Route through the keys.
Pizza night.
Snorkel break on Fiesta Key.
Key West street show.
Mallory Square Ellie
Mallory Square Lainey
Manatee in the harbor!
Key West Manatee
Josh’s Key West Office
Key West Sunset
Key West friends Macayla and Haley
Family Tower
Long Bridge
Ice Cream Face (and a little too much sun)
Hot dog stuck in a backpack.
Hello Manatee.
Goofy travelers.
Good dinner choice.
Glowing in the Keys.
Totally cool tree.
Campground office space
Boyds Key West RV Park
Biscayne Jr Ranger Test
Newest Biscayne Jr Rangers
Autograph Tree
I want a moat at my house.
Biggest shell ever.
Key West Surf Shop
Everglades National Park 2/24 – 2/25
Why did the turtle cross the road?
I bet Grandpa wants one!
Vultures eat the cars (unless they have a tarp on them)
I like coconut!
Robert is Here (cutting Lainey’s coconut)
Sneaky Gator
Pool time with the Harpers
Lotta kids
Baby gator with Ari and Ayla
Great Heron
Nice face Dad
Gator photo bomb
Snapping Turtle
Funky Fish
Flat Sammy sees a gator.
Everglades Jr Rangers
Everglades Lainey
Creepy Gator
Big Gator Chillin’
Bird almost eaten
Ayla’s new bird friend
Buddies
Another gator
Very cool birds
Baby Gator Nest
White Heron
White Egret
Tiny Gator Babies
Tracy waiting for the tram
I think I might eat that tram
Purple Gallinule
Roseate Spoonbill
Scary Eyes
Sneaky Gator
Purple Gallinule
Lainey waiting for the tram
Josh waiting for the tram
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Huge Gator
Juvenile Black Crowned Night Heron
Great Blue Heron
Scary Eyes
Very close to the tram
Everglades Flower
Everglades Swamp
Garfish
By the RV off the road
Butterfly
Blue Heron in the water
Anhinga Wings
Tiny baby gator
Tiny baby gator up close
Baby gator headshot
That’s a big one.
Just hanging out.
Anhinga
Anhinga Dad and kids
Marco Island, FL 2/23 – 2/24
Visiting the RV
The whole gang at the condo
Shelling with Shelly and Ron
View from the condo
The Whole Gang at The Diner
Beach Day!
Clearwater, FL 2/20 – 2/22
Home of Winter from Disney’s Dolphin Tale
Winter and her trainer
Winter and her trainer
Watching a dolphin show
Turtle rehab
Huge sea turtle
Rufus the movie star
The famous movie entrance
Hello Rufus!
Checking out sea animals
Winter’s tank
Movie Info
Movie Info
Watching Winter Play
Clearwater Beach
One Large Chair
Walking Blindfold
I love this gator!
Winter is behind me!
More dolphins
Playing in the pool
Sleepy Sydney
Golden Acres Ranch, Monticello, FL 2/17 – 2/19
Can I have this baby goat?
Mystery the goat is a cool dude.
My new best friend, Mystery.
Morning feeding with Christine Golden.
Feeding the guardian sheep dogs with Charissa.
Feeding the sheep.
Fresh eggs.
Playing on the ranch.
Our home for the weekend.
Baby goats rule.
New buddies Mimi (the kid) and Mystery (the goat)
Time to feed the goats.
Hey, can you help with this hay?
I’ve got a goat on me!
Feeding baby goats.
About to ride in the Gator.
Helping to tease fresh wool.
Pensacola, FL 2/14-2/16
Glad we don’t have these rules in the RV!
View from the campsite beach.
Perfect place to meditate.
What’s up Crane.
177 stairs up the lighthouse.
Retired Blue Angels Jets
First day of boogie boarding.
Going in. Going out.
Watch out for that fighter jet.
Stair 77. 100 more to go.
Top of the lighthouse.
Josh pilots a military plane.
Lookout perch on top of Fort Pickens.
Fort Pickens Jr Rangers
Photo opp at Fort Pickens.
Pool break.
Historic Pensacola Lighthouse
Historic Pensacola Lighthouse
Panorama from the top of the lighthouse.
Walking down 177 steps.
Beach view from the top of the lighthouse.
President Josh Pierce
Ready for a barefoot dock start.
New friends Brianna and Abby.
Sittin’ on the dock of the bay.
Pensacola Naval Station Museum
Amazing Shell Collection
Sorting through shells
Swimming in a sweater and pants.
Boogie boarding with her dog
Dog beach
Sydney’s first swim
That’s one tall lighthouse.
Lighthouse deck
Happy Valentine’s Day
V R up 2 digging in the sand.
New Orleans & The Cane River Plantation 2/8 – 2/13
200 Year Old Plantation Tree
The Original Plantation Store
Plantation Store Soda Shop
RV Dopplegangers
Cane River Creole Plantation
Oakland Plantation Main House
Oakland House Main Gate
Oakland Gate
Original Dr Pepper Sign
Private Ranger Tour of the Oakland House
Our Private Ranger Tour
Plantation Gardens
The Original Oakland House Family
Cane River Plantation Jr Rangers
Ranger Worksheets at The Store
Tadah
Beignets in The French Quarter
Brass Band In The Street
Old Time French Quarter
Carolyn and Alex in The RV
Ellster and Carolyn
Chillin’ on the Bayou
Crawfish Lunch
Alligator Dogs for Dinner
NOLA Cub Fans
Watching The Brass Band
Fancy Snacks in New Orleans
Fancy Snacks in New Orleans
Fancy Snacks in New Orleans
Lunch In The French Quarter
French Quarter Riverside Building
Josh’s Office
Fancy Snack With Lainey
Cute Hat In New Orleans
I’m Psyched For My Snacks
Louisianna Sticker
Oldest Restaurant in New Orleans
Street Performer Head Spins
Cool Steamboat
Strawberry Tiara
Street Show in French Quarter
The Whole NOLA Crew
Twinsies
Hot Springs, AR 2/5 – 2/8
Flat Sammy Takes a Bath
Hot Water From The Ground
Out Zip Lining
Zip Line Buddies
Lots of Pipes
Nice Shower!
Filling up with fresh water
Ranger Ellie
Bath House Entry Gates
Hello Hot Springs
Under The Table and Dreaming – On a hot dog
Like in Big!
Ranger Tracy
Pecan with a heart!
One of the famous bath houses
The Rest Area
An original hot springs bath
Ranger Lainey
Relaxing in the tub
Huge zip line!
Flat Sammy Gives a Speech
Bath House Jr Rangers
Spa or Torture Chamber?
The Original Bath House Gym
Inside the spa area
Old School Locker Room
Crater of Diamonds State Park, AR 2/1 – 2/4
Great Campsite in Arkansas
Big Trees
Campfire Time
Hanging under the stars
Campfire Laughing
Colored Fire
Colored Fire
Smile!
Hey Sydney
Morning at Diamonds State Park
Shabbat Dinner
Searching the Fields
This is our spot
They’re out there somewhere
The original mining house
Let’s dig here!
Wet sifting
More wet sifting
Hello!
Tracy’s Pinterest lantern hack
Lainey the diamond miner
Cracker Barrel Camping
1,2,3 Go.
Playing in the RV
Mmmm Cracker Barrel
Austin, TX 1/26/17 – 1/31/17
Adding Texas
Silver Spur Guest Ranch
Riding Fake Horses
Nice Asses.
Riding Fake Horses
Our trail guide Hank
Lainey and Lightning
Ellie and Freckles
Playing on the ranch
Trail Riding in Bandera
A rocky road on the trail
What a view!
The whole gang riding the trails
Silver Spur Guest Ranch – Bandera
Riding through the forest
Bandera General Store Snacks
Bandera General Store
Some BBQ in Bandera, TX
BBQ with cousins at Salt Lick – Driftwood, TX
That’s a lot of meat.
Now that’s a smoker.
Mmmm Austin BBQ
Outside Salt Lick
Mark and Josh at C-Boys Blues Club
Soulman Sam in Austin
Instant best buddies
Ellie and Della
The whole cousin gang
Texas tree climbin’
A girl and her dog
McKinney Falls State Park
Next to the waterfalls
I could be DanielSon
Instant best buds
The McKinney Falls
McKinney Falls Rangers
McKinney Falls Ranger Test
Maybe too big?
That’s a lot of boots.
I want all these boots!
Really close to the falls.
Haircut time – heart braids
Curly Lainey
Reading at the campsite
Upstream from the falls
School work at Starbucks
3 Girls, 3 Drinks, 3 Laptops, 3 Phones.
Stevie Ray is a lot taller than I imagined.
The Sky is Cryin’!
Carlsbad Caverns, NM 1/20/17 – 1/26/17
Entering the cave
The original ladder down
Thousand year old sheets of dissolved minerals
The Kings Palace
A huge column
Stalactites
Rest stop half way down the cave
Inside Carlsbad Caverns
Inside Carlsbad Caverns
Inside Carlsbad Caverns
Crystal Clear Cave Pool
Cave Tunnels
Kings Palace Room
Lainey Climber
Heart Opening
The Big Room
The Big Room
All 4 Carlsbad Rangers
Ranger Certificates
Checkout our new badges
Carlsbad at night
Both asleep
Aliens from Roswell New Mexico
Tucson, AZ 1/15/17 – 1/20/17
Palm Springs wind farm – 4k windmills!
Amazing Layers of Mountains
Desert Museum
Great dinner with family and friends
Winnie’s first Tucson campfire
Josh and Ellie sing some Jason Mraz
Campfire family
Hot dogs over the fire
More campfire
Nice work on that fire!
Put ’em up
I just ate a S’more
The Pierces of the old west
The actual set of 3 Amigos – our favorite!
Much fancier to have school in an RV
Ahh! Ellie’s driving!
Bubbe volunteers to punch a stuntman.
Just before the punch.
Helllooo.
Cozy Lainey by the fire.
We camped next to an orange tree.
Lainey’s orange photos.
One of about 30 that I picked.
Now that’s an orange.
The pool all to themselves.
Skyping with her class.
Amazing desert landscape.
Arizona sunset.
Get us out of jail!
Get us out of jail!
In a photo booth.
Photo booth goofiness.
The Old Tucson Train
This otter loved Lainey’s boot.
Stop eating my boot!
Hummingbirds everywhere.
Hello Ms. Hummingbird
Heart cactus
More heart cactus
Flat Sammy Visits AZ
Flat Sammy at Seguaro National Park
That’s one big cactus.
Saguaro National Park Rangers
We own this national park.
Lainey’s Strawberry Tulip Desserts
Joshua Tree National Park, CA 1/12/17 – 1/15/17
Joshua at Joshua Tree
It’s snowing!
The National Parks postcard shot
Panorama of the campsite
Yoga on the rocks
Amazing views on the trail
Thumbs up rock
Shabbat dinner
Flat Sammy visits Joshua Tree
Rock climbing on the trail
Being sworn in as Joshua Tree Junior Rangers
Joshua Tree Ranger ceremony
We got our night explorer badges!
Reading about the park
The trail was created by kids
A canyon on the kids trail
Working on her ranger workbook
Joshua Tree trail views
Joshua Tree trail views
A few flurries
The sun is out!
Joshua being a Joshua tree
The hikers
Face rock
Crazy cool trees
Sydney…or Cassie?
That’s a big rock!
Malibu / Encino / Los Angeles, CA 1/5/17 – 1/11/17
Impressive view from the RV site
Sydney’s first beach visit
Sunset on the beach
Sunset on the beach
Beach sisters
They love hanging on the beach
View from the bedroom window
Chef Ellie hard at work
Lainey finally got her coconut drink!
Cool seaweed
Good buddies Tali and Ellie
Learning CAD at the Pixar exhibit
This shuttle is super impressive
Goofy faces by a huge rocket ship
Holy cow is this thing cool!
Backseat goofballs
Are you looking at me hermit crab?
Tiny hermit crab claw
Jackson comes over for dinner
Lainey size hole
Lainey learns CAD from Pixar
What a day!
Fresh roadside strawberries
Sleepover pancakes
Checkout my castle and moat
Malibu Beach RV Resort
We see dolphins!
The Nitzkins come for dinner
View from the top of the RV
How ‘about that backyard view
Endless ocean
Pierces in a toybox
Pixar exhibit rendering station
Learning to draw Jessie
Rocky Malibu beach
The RV at night
Sleepover breakfast
Lainey’s roadside strawberry stop
Backyard Syd bath
China Ranch Date Farm in Death Valley, CA 1/4/17 – 1/5/17
China Ranch Date Farm Antiques
A Word About The Dates
The Road to China Ranch (middle of nowhere)
Co-pilot Sydney Pierce
Ellie’s Date Palm Yoga Pose
Lainey’s Date Palm Yoga Pose
Hanging Dates
More Hanging Dates
Othello Toes
Learning Othello
Hello California!
The 4WD road to China Ranch
Endless Road
Hiking to the gypsum rail
Paths full of dates
Song Session
Learning about dates
The ranch from above
Las Vegas and Hoover Dam 1/1/17 – 1/3/17
A very windy Hoover Dam.
This fountain is amazing!
Loving the Bellagio fountains.
Caesars Palace Lobby.
That’s a lot of sugar!
The Tournament of Kings dinner show at Excalibur.
Hanging with Ira at Caesars.
Josh and Camp Inc. founding camper, Ira.
Hello Nevada!
The Grand Canyon 12/30/16 – 1/1/17
The snow covered trail.
No worries. Only 5,000 feet down behind us.
Amazing views!
Lainey’s got the camera.
The girls at the geological center.
The skies have cleared!
That’s a big canyon.
Some wildlife near our campground.
Getting their Grand Canyon ranger badges.
The ranger oath.
Working with a ranger.
Junior ranger workbooks.
Flat Sammy at a scenic lookout.
There’s a huge canyon in that cloud.
Not exactly the view we were looking for.
Road-schooling at the visitor center.
Grand Canyon’s newest model.
Welcome to the visitor center.
Pop in his birthday crown.
Cool tree for a photo.
Hanukkah at the Lazy P.
Happy B-Day Pop!
New Year’s Eve Grilled Cheeses.
Hanukkah & Christmas in Peoria, AZ 12/19/16 – 12/30/16
The first of many stickers.
7 degrees when we left Denver!
Hugging best friend Julia before we drove off.
Captain Tracy at the wheel.
Tootsie rolls from Beth!
An original vintage YOLO sticker from Uncle Scott.
Winnie and her caboose in Flagstaff.
Brody in the bunk bed.
Happy swimmers.
The kid’s table.
Nice tree Grandpa and Lainey!
Anthem, AZ train park.
Anthem, AZ train park.
Top of the world.
About to ride the train.
Riding the train.
Grandpa and the girls.
Tracy’s ginger bread RV.
Tracy’s ginger bread RV,
Look at these presents!
Happy Christmas day.
The new truck drivin’ hat.
Selfie stick with Uncle Scott and Brody.
Learning the Carlie selfie face.
Smiling at the pool.
Grandpa and Brody floating.
Happy Hannukah!
Thanksgiving Trip to Scottsdale, AZ 11/18/16 – 11/28/16
Lainey’s Chocolate Cream Pie at Rock Springs Cafe in AZ
About to start the drive
Late night DQ!
Lookin’ cute
Breakfast on the road
Getting closer to Santa Fe
Santa Fe farmers market
Carrot painting
Our mascots
It’s funny cuz it’s a huge hat.
Small snack
Thanks to our sponsor NoveltyLights.com
Purple carrot art work
Historic Route 66
The real Cozy Cone
The real Cozy Cone
Mater- The real Cozy Cone
The real Cozy Cone
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Puerco Pueblo in Petrified Forest National Park
Puerco Pueblo in Petrified Forest National Park
Puerco Pueblo in Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Dessert and Petrified Forest National Park
Jr. Ranger Status
Lo Lo Mai Springs Campground in Cornville, AZ (outside Sedona)
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