The World of Mackay

Ok - after a 5 year blog hiatus, we are back to the World of Mackay (Owen is slightly offended that he is not part of the blog title, but I started it right after Mackay was born). Since Bill and I are both off work this summer, we have decided to take the road trip we have dreamed of. Originally, we were planning to drive all the way to New York and then come back via a southerly route. However, due to some serious back problems for Bill - we decided to reduce the mileage and focus on the western national parks -- which we have never really explored. To make things more interesting/complicated, we chose to drive our Tesla, which puts some general constraints on our route, as we have to stay somewhat within reach of the Tesla charging network . The other thing we learned about trying to plan a trip to national parks is that you need to start at least a year in advance if you want to have campsites or hotel rooms inside a park. Oops. Anyway, we are cobbling together a combo of camps