Recent content by mariaben

I just wanted to add that we went ahead and did our trip as planned May 5 2015 to October 19 2015. 5 and a half months of amazing memories travelling to 37 states in an 8 berth Class C. Hubby and I are already planning returning in 2025 once the kids have left home. If anyone wants to know...

Thank you, appreciate all the tips!

Thank you so much everyone :) Ya'll (did I get that right? lol) are so helpful! I have been on the Disney message boards and looks like 8-10 day pass is the way to go for sure. I priced it up in September next year at Fort Wilderness with the cheapest dining plan and it came to $4959 eeeek So...

Thanks for that. I have been reading up on it and have decided just to stick to WDW. We do have $5,000 towards the theme parks type entertainment so now we can put some more of the DL money towards something else :)

2 months since I posted this thread and things have changed. We listened to your advice regarding time of year and with a few things changing here we have paid for our first lot of tickets. We are now doing the 12 month trip as 2 x 6 month trips. We are booked to arrive in Los Angeles on May 5th...

wow amazing!! Sounds like you spent a lot of time getting to know our country. We holiday in Kaiteriteri every January, did you visit there if you loved Nelson? Thanks so much for the welcome, always fabulous to meet people around the world :)

Thanks everyone for the tips and advice. To be honest, the only place that is a must on the list for Canada is PEI (and we were thinking of doing Niagara from the Canadian side) and that's me asking for it. We might go back to Canada at another stage but with the kids we wanted to make the most...

Thanks for the welcome :) San Diego, LA and surrounding areas are on our list. We're spending 3-4 weeks in California and looking forward to the sun as we will be leaving our winter behind

We have plans to spend half a year in USA and half a year in UK/Europe. We have travelled to TN and CA before in June-August so we know what the weather was like there then but wanted to run our travel plans past you all to see if we can improve. We are 2 adults (42 and 38) and 3 kids (aged...

Hi there, we are a family of 5 who own a caravan here in New Zealand. I think you call them travel trailers. we have the opportunity to take a year out starting august 2015 and travel for 6 months in USA/Canada and 6 months in UK/Europe. we have decided to start with USA since ya'll speak...