Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Why the trip
  • Why the RV
  • What we have done to the RV
  • Itinerary
  • Contact
CarkeetCaravan.com

Welcome Back!

This is 2020.  Last year ended horribly and changed our lives forever, but we are still 4 Carkeets strong and moving forward as best we know how. This started as a way to chronicle our 6 week sabbatical journey in 2018, but we still have the RV and we are still making memories and we invite you to follow along!

About This Site

We were given a great opportunity to take a 6 week road trip in 2018. We bought an RV, packed our bags and hit the road!  After our trip, we went back to reality (reluctantly), but we still have the RV and we still love adventure, so please follow along as we continue to document our rolling travels!

Comments!

We love comments!  If you are following our journey, please feel free to leave us a comment!  I know it asks for your e-mail address and that can be scary, but that information just comes to us and we won’t sell it!

Search

Calendar

May 2025
S M T W T F S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Dec    

Search

About This Site

We have been given a great opportunity to take a 6 week road trip. We bought an RV, packed our bags and are hitting the road! Please follow along as we document this great adventure!

Calendar

May 2025
S M T W T F S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Dec    
Adventuring

Friday – More Carkeets!

By Tonya Carkeet | October 5, 2018October 7, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

Once we got set up at the RV park, I fixed us a nice breakfast and then planned to take a shower.  John laid down to take a nap and Trista wanted to shower first, so I sat on the couch to wait and woke up a couple of hours later! We coordinated with John’s…

Adventuring

Thursday – Going through the big D and do mean Dallas

By Tonya Carkeet | October 4, 2018October 7, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

Today we woke up at Walmart, ate a quick breakfast and got out as soon as we could.  We drove through New Orleans – didn’t get to see the cool parts but got a better understanding of Hurricane Katrina. We were very excited to drive across Lake Pontchartrain!  It’s just one of those things.  The…

Adventuring

Wednesday – All good things must come to an end

By Tonya Carkeet | October 3, 2018October 7, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

This amazing journey is coming to an end and it is time to make our way back to Colorado.  We woke up, later than we should have, I don’t think any of us want to go.  We started getting ready.  John went down to cash in our last four meals for breakfast.  He came back…

Adventuring

Tuesday – Magic Kingdom II

By Tonya Carkeet | October 2, 2018October 8, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

Last night I made a list of all of the things we still wanted to do, studied the map, and hatched a plan. Armed with our checklist, fast passes booked and a lunch reservation, we set out for Magic Kingdom, Day 2.  Here is a picture that I took later in the day. As we…

Adventuring

Monday – Magic Kingdom I

By Tonya Carkeet | October 1, 2018October 7, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

We headed out this morning and planned to have a quick service breakfast in the park.  I found a place that said they had quick service breakfast, but when we got there, they said they did, but you have to have reservations.  There were no other places in the park to have breakfast, apparently, and…

Adventuring

Sunday – Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom

By Tonya Carkeet | September 30, 2018October 7, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

This was a long day.  We started by getting up early for extra magic hours at Hollywood Studios and ended by closing down Animal Kingdom without having dinner.  Kids finally ate around 10, John and I at Midnight. We got to Hollywood Studios right as they opened.  Slinky Dog Dash is the hot attraction and…

Adventuring

Saturday – Down day

By Tonya Carkeet | September 29, 2018October 7, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

In a perfect world, I would have done two park days and then a down day and then two more park days.  However, that isn’t the way this trip was working out and we did not want any part of a Disney park on a Saturday, so today became our day of rest.  Last night,…

Adventuring

Friday – Epcot

By Tonya Carkeet | September 28, 2018October 8, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

Starting from the time we pulled in, I was struck by many of the details that Disney doesn’t let slide.  For example, we pulled into Fort Wilderness and pulled to a security booth and Trista at the bench right behind me and visible to the security guard, who immediately looked up to her and said,…

Adventuring

Start Here

By Tonya Carkeet | September 28, 2018October 7, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

Back to blogging.  It has been a nice break from nightly blogging, but I am anxious to get it all caught up.  So many fun stories from our time at Disney.  I plan to blog these as if I had done it each night.  I kept good notes and the pictures are organized that way,…

Adventuring

Welcome to the jungle

By Tonya Carkeet | September 27, 2018September 27, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

We have arrived safely in Florida!  Unlike Maryland, Florida not only welcomed us… They welcomed us with free orange juice! And the tornadoiest (I made up this word, seemed appropriate) skies I have ever seen (took Meteorology in college, didn’t do so well).  I will post this picture I took, you can decide for yourself.…

Adventuring

Going through the big D and don’t mean Dallas

By Tonya Carkeet | September 27, 2018September 27, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

Don’t mean the one that the country song sings about either!  Carkeet Caravan is going DISNEY!  We check in today!  I am not planning to blog during our time at Disney.  We are driving to Orlando and checking in this afternoon.  I will try to make a post that we made it. We paid for…

Adventuring

Georgia on my mind

By Tonya Carkeet | September 26, 2018September 26, 2018 by Tonya Carkeet

I realize that I did not blog yesterday, it was not one of our finer days.  Five weeks on the road, together 24/7, in a confined space combined with the urgency of trying to get all of our work and school work done before Disney is starting to take its toll.  I will say that…

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
© 2025 CarkeetCaravan.com | Theme: ResponsiveBlogic