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My name is Lynette Cook and I currently live in Paducah, Kentucky.

My girls are five and seven now.

They were four and six at the time of the trip last summer.

I wanted Thio take them in the car with our teardrop camper.

There is electricity that runs the lights for the camper.

My husband, I have our own size bed and then they have little bunk beds that they sleep in.

We started in New Orleans.

Then we went through Texas stopping in Austin waterfall.

That we have videos up is actually at McKinney Falls in Austin State Park, which is actually a city state park.

Then we went further west in Texas, which I was blown away with.

How beautiful Western Texas Waas.

Davis Mountain was just beautiful.

We hiked up and did a little bit of hiking on top of the mountain.

My kids have never really seen that sort of wide open areas and desert.

It was their first time in the desert, and then we drove from New Mexico up Thio, Colorado, to meet the rest of the family I think the best advice that I could give to parents that are road tripping with toddlers is to keep your expectations about what you're going to do very low.

Kids were really happy with just a new playground or new rocks to climb on or trying to find what the new bugs look like in that area.

You're not gonna have really epic days every single day.

Okay, E think another thing that's really important with kids is that they need to be part of the planning about what they're gonna do.

They buy into it a lot better when they're helping plan the trip itself and the day and then the other thing is being prepared.

We always make sure we have our water bottles and we have healthy snacks, basically about a week's worth of fresh fruit and vegetables.

You have to kind of have a schedule.

You can't really wing it when you're with small Children, and I just faras close.

We packed enough to what would fit in our camper.

Most campgrounds, especially the state campgrounds, have laundry facilities.

McKinney Falls State Park Junior Ranger program was fantastic.

Those Junior Ranger programs encourage kids to explore the state parks.

They encourage kids to look at the nature to look at the plant life, to look at the animal life, I would say with camping with teenagers, once again, let them plan.

Let them have a say in what you're gonna dio let them bring friends.

Having a buddy to explore with the ride bikes with to talk to people makes it much more enjoyable.

E I look back at the pictures.

I'm excited to do it again.

I'm getting planning on our next adventure.

Just have something to focus on.