Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway

The Blue Ridge Parkway is beautiful all year round.  We took this trip in June.

 Here are all the kids lined up for one of many photo ops.

 

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 The Parkway is incredible, our pics don't do it justice.

                                                 On the road again!

 

I recommend a visit to http://www.blueridgeparkway.org/index.php#

Stumphouse Tunnel Park and Issaqueena Falls

Whenever we can we take the kids and a couple Jeeps and head toward adventure.  On this trip we set a goal for the kids to all try something they had never done before.  This part of the trip was at the Stumphouse Tunnel and Issaqueena Falls, near Walhalla, SC.

Walhalla is beautiful.  It is in the mountains, there are a number of water falls,and parks, it is just a great place to take the kids.

Zane

Ansley and Melanie

Kayla, Mattlyn, Melanie, Ansley, Will, and Zane



If you live anywhere near Walhalla, SC pack a picnic and go visit.



For information on Stumphouse Tunnel Park and Issaqueena Falls visit http://www.oconeecountry.com/stumphouse.html

Progreso, Mexico

Our first stop was in Progreso.



Our bus driver said this road was wiped out in a hurricane a few years back.



Progreso has a super long pier, so you have to get on a bus to ride to the end. On the bus they played American songs but with a Spanish accent.  It tripped me out. 

Once we got off the pier the town was small and kind of rundown, but you could see that it was once a beautiful place.

We did the most fun thing and probably a little of the dangerous side, we took a double-decker bus tour.  That is where most of these pics were taken.





We were very close when we passed cars, trucks or people.  It was a little scary.





The power and phone lines are pretty low in the town so while we were riding along on top of the bus, the tour guide would yell "DUCK!"  The lines were really only inches over the top of the bus.  It was crazy!

That is a school behind our tour guide.  He said it was an elementary school in the mornings and a high school in the afternoon.

I just love this pic.

The rest are just some sights from our tour around Progresso.