My family loves the beach. I plan on traveling down to Panama City Fla. for a few days. I can't wait to park my Tacoma out on the beach, listen to music, eat good food, and spend quality time with my family.
That sounds like a nice plan.
So get this ... up until about 6 years ago, my brother and his family lived in Jacksonville, Florida. I live in Dallas, Texas area. That's about 14 hours driving time, too much for one day, but a good 2-day drive either way.
So the plan was that we would meet up in the middle somewhere. Well, there is no really good "middle" place, but Pensacola / Destin would be a good place for both us to to go. With good traffic that's about 9 to 10 hours for me and about 4 to 5 for him.
DESTIN FLORIDA
So, before we got settled down with work schedules, children being born, etc. HE MOVED TO ALASKA! Go figure. He said, "hey, come on up and visit us anything mid-spring to early fall" ... Yeah, well, that's not quite the same thing now is it for a simple summer trip. One is jumping in the car and driving 10 hours and we're there for just the cost of gas. The other is packing up a family of five and flying from DFW to Anchorage ... the flights alone are about 7 hours non-stop, or about 8 to 9 hours with 1 stop.
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Anyhow, i'm not sure what we're doing this year, probably going for a week up in Broken Bow, OK at the campgroup there and do some fishing, enjoy being outdoors. My mom's in town so they're going swimming a lot down at the pool, etc.
BROKEN BOW, OKLAHOMA - We're planning a trip here this year.
Beavers Bend state park
This is not our setup, but this is a typical layout for trailers on the river-side. We were here in March and we got one of the river-side camping spots.