Enthusiast III
- 684
- First Name
- Matt
- Last Name
- Beglinger
- Member #
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2881
Hi Fellow Overlanders,
My family and I are complete newbies to Overlanding, although we feel very compelled to do it. My wife and I have three daughters (1, 4, and 7) and we are wanting to plan a few trips for 2017. Our oldest is in first grade and she has Spring break off March 13 - 17 so we figured it would be a great time for a first trip. However, we're not sure where to go as it's our first trip and we don't have much experience, we have three little ones to worry about, and that time of year can be unpredictable (and safe to say generally cold). We're from Central Iowa and used to the cold, although we sleep in a warm house each night, so the thought of sleeping outside with potentially 30F temps (or less) seems a bit daunting. I've looked over a map of different National Parks and have looked up average temps for March for the Southern parks and most of them run the risk of being unpredictable and cold in mid March.
Being from Iowa there's no obvious choices as we don't have the greatest natural destinations here in our state, however the upside is that we're in a bit of spring board being centrally located in the US we can get to many places fairly quickly (1 - 2 days).
Any suggestions for us where to go, or would you suggest for our first time out together that we plan something later in the year?
My family and I are complete newbies to Overlanding, although we feel very compelled to do it. My wife and I have three daughters (1, 4, and 7) and we are wanting to plan a few trips for 2017. Our oldest is in first grade and she has Spring break off March 13 - 17 so we figured it would be a great time for a first trip. However, we're not sure where to go as it's our first trip and we don't have much experience, we have three little ones to worry about, and that time of year can be unpredictable (and safe to say generally cold). We're from Central Iowa and used to the cold, although we sleep in a warm house each night, so the thought of sleeping outside with potentially 30F temps (or less) seems a bit daunting. I've looked over a map of different National Parks and have looked up average temps for March for the Southern parks and most of them run the risk of being unpredictable and cold in mid March.
Being from Iowa there's no obvious choices as we don't have the greatest natural destinations here in our state, however the upside is that we're in a bit of spring board being centrally located in the US we can get to many places fairly quickly (1 - 2 days).
Any suggestions for us where to go, or would you suggest for our first time out together that we plan something later in the year?
