Family trips allow family members to spend good quality time with each other and make life-long memories. However, some families avoid trips because they don’t know how to plan the trip successfully. Follow these 5 tips for planning a  family trip and you will have an amazing time.

1. Plan your trip a head of time and not at the last minute. This allows you time to save up plenty of money and to find exactly where you want to go. When choosing your destination take into consideration the weather.

2. After you have decided on a location that everyone agrees on you want to find hotels within the area of your destination. By planning your trip a head of time this allows you to save up money to get a nicer hotel.

3. Next you can use the internet or books to find tourist destinations. By doing this a head of time you save yourself the hassle of trying to figure out what to do once you get there. When looking for things to do take into consideration the people that are going. This will insure fun for everyone going.

4. When the time comes to go on your trip you must decide on how you want to get there. If your destination is far away it is suggested to take a plane. Of course, this cost more but you will get there way faster. If you do decide to drive you need to figure out if you are going to use your own car, a rental, or a rv. It is best to rent a vehicle, by doing this you will not put unnecessary miles on your car.

5. When traveling it is smart to pack food such as sandwiches. This saves money and time. Also, if you are traveling with kids bring along items such as books, games etc. to keep them content, this will make your job of driving a whole lot easier.Once you arrive at your destination check into your hotel, enjoy your site seeing, and have fun making memories that will last a lifetime.                                                                                                                                           Daniel Brantley enjoys taking vacations with his family, bonding and making lifetime memories.

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There’s still time before the snows hit to point your RV toward Colorado for a most excellent family adventure. From camping in the Rocky Mountains to digging for dinosaur bones & climbing into cool cliff dwellings at the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado will go down in your family book of memorable trips as one of the best.

Before we go further, here are some RV places you should know about:

* Rent your RV in Denver through Nolan’s’ RV Rentals.
* If you own your RV, Mattas Marine & RV, an RV supply & service store in Grand Junction might come in handy.
* Enjoy the hot springs at the Joyful Journey Hot Springs Spa in Alamosa.
* Many hotels, like the Royal Gorge Jellystone Park Camp Resort in Canon City or the Heron Lake RV Park in Fort Collins have many facilities available to you during your stay there, including laundry room, playground, picnic areas, pools and children’s activity programs.
* Otherwise, head for the campgrounds dotting Colorado & park your RV amongst the trees!

Colorado has more than 500 mountain peaks throughout the state. The highest point of the state (and the entire Rocky Mountains for that matter) is Mt. Elbert which has an elevation of 14,440 feet. Veer east from the southern Rocky Mountains and you’ll find the Colorado Eastern Plains. These plains are a section of the Great Plains within Colorado with elevation ranges of more than 3000 feet to 6562 feet. The lands are used primarily for dry land farming or ranching, though you’ll find occasional irrigation farming. The drive to the west takes you to some notable peaks like Longs Peak, Mount Evans, Pikes Peak and the Spanish Peaks.

Continue to the interior of the Rocky Mountains and you’ll see several large parks. One of which is the North Park, east of the Continental Divide. The North Park is a high basin that surrounds a wide valley in Jackson County. In its vicinity are the waters of the North Platte River, Michigan River, Illinois River and Canadian River. On the west side of the Continental Divide is the Middle Park, located in the Grand County. Then there’s South Park, with the South Platte River as its water source.

Driving west to east in Colorado allows your family to see the state’s desert-like basins, alpine mountains and the vast Great Plains. You will also get to see Pike’s Peak, the mountain in the front range of the Rocky Mountains, and just 10 miles from here is the Colorado Springs.

Be sure to drive by Denver, the capital and the most populous city in Colorado. Take a stop and enjoy its parks and gardens. If you have time, seize the opportunity to visit the Forney Transportation Museum where your family will get to see hundreds of cars and other modes of transportation.

The Denver Merchandise Mart is also worth a stop. Your kids will love to join in the Denver Kids Expo. Admission to this expo is just $9 for adults and kids are free of charge…and parking is also free!

Your family will enjoy more scenic drives near Denver – Golden, Boulder and Fort Collins. The drive from Golden to Boulder via Highway 93 will thrill the kids with all its twists and turns.

Nearly every city your travel through will offer a fun kid-oriented activity. From kid-friendly activities like the Butterfly Pavilion and Insect Center in Westminster, or the Collage Children’s Museum in Boulder, to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, your RV Road Trip will take you from one adventure to another.

Many people have attempted to tell me that road trips and road trip games are a thing of the past, now that everyone flies to their destinations. While there is certainly truth to that, people still go on road trips all the time – and anyone who has kids will agree that they are always looking for fun games and activity ideas for any long road trip, or even just a short car trip around town to run errands.

So, whether on your next long road trip, or just a quick car trip around town – try this extremely fun game to help keep the kids entertained. It is one of many, but seems to be one that children really enjoy.

BILLBOARD POETRY

# of Players: 2 or more

Objects Needed: Nothing

Everyone playing this fun car game will be on their own team. One player will start and find a random billboard and read one sentence from the billboard, and it should be a relatively short sentence (anywhere from 5-7 words long). Once the sentence is read, the person to the left of whoever just read the sentence will then have 30 seconds to think up a line that rhymes with the sentence just read. This made up rhyme must be about the same amount of words, the end word must rhyme, and it should be somewhat relating to or relevant to what the sentence is about. If, for example, if player 1 reads: “everything in the store must go,” then before 30 seconds is up, player 2 might say: “the merchandise is selling so slow.”

Once player 2 responds with a pertinent rhyme, they will then find a new sentence from a different billboard, and this will repeat around the circle. If a player does not respond within 30 seconds, or the rhyme is voted by everyone else as either not rhyming or not relating to the sentence read, that person gets one strike. A player is out for that round once they receive 3 strikes. The last player playing will receive a point for winning that round. Start another round, and everyone will come back in and play – the first person to score 3 points is the winner!