Things We Won't Be Doing At A National Park

Let's just put this on our list of "Things We Won't Try To Do While On Our National Parks Family Vacation," shall we?

Pretty sure this may be photoshopped, but we still won't be doing this.

Darwin in action, boys and girls.

Speaking of the national parks family driving vacation:  we may be changing our trip around a bit due to our family's recent loss. 

I've started planning an alternate route for us that would take us closer to Arizona so we can plan in family time with folks out there -- but still give us a driving vacation to see some national parks and other lovely things.  We're talking heading west from West Virginia, allowing for a stop or two in Missouri, Kansas (gotta get a little Laura Ingalls Wilder into the mix, right?), then into Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona...and maybe a little of California.  Or thereabouts -- am just beginning to research the possibilities this morning.

If anyone has done Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Canyon and/or any other treasures along the southern/western route that they want to share, chime in, please.  I'm in the early planning stages and would love to hear suggestions about things to see between WV and AZ (and maybe Disneyland in CA, too, if we can manage it).