Road Trips in a Tesla

A suite hotel with breakfast and a great location (Victoria, BC)

October 21, 2015

Every time I hear the song “Under the Boardwalk” I’m whisked back to the steps along the water in front of the Empress hotel where the buskers seem to play this song over and over through the summers of my memories in Victoria BC as a child. So this summer when we returned to Vancouver […]

If your car drives in auto-pilot in Seattle on a Friday

October 16, 2015

The hubby’s vehicle got an update the other day that makes it pretty much drive on its own and it freaks me out. There is a small part of me that thinks one day Elon Musk is going to call all his vehicles back to their mother ship and we will all be whisked away […]

Car2Go Electric Car envy in San Diego

October 14, 2015

It isn’t hard to find good things to say about Car2Go in Seattle. I think they are the main reason my husband has been able to bike to work for the past couple years because they are so easy to use that they provide a great backup for when he needs a car in the […]

Ritzvill Washington Supercharger for Tesla

Where you charge in Vancouver when there is no supercharger

October 8, 2015

Ok Vancouver, you really need a supercharger. If you’ve been reading a while, we’ve owned our electric car for a few months now and I can’t believe how much fun it’s been to use on our road trips. Now all we need to find is a place where we can get a good charge up […]

things to do near car charger on quallicum beach

A place worth visiting just to charge your car (Quallicum Beach, Vancouver Island)

September 30, 2015

We were in a sun-filled cafe called Sobo on the northern tip of Vancouver Island in Tofino when a gentleman came up to us and asked “is that your car out there” and wondered if electric cars were feasible on the island. We were actually a little worried that we would have difficulty finding places […]

10 or so kid-friendly food options on Vancouver Island

September 10, 2015

We just spent a lovely week on Vancouver Island and I never realized how EASY it is to travel there from Seattle. Since we’ve been doing a lot of road trips by electric car lately, it was a perfect road-trip with the kids from Seattle and we covered a lot of ground and never hit […]

Tesla trip from Seattle to Whistler stopping at Squamish supercharger

Our favorite place to stop and re-charge on our way up to Whistler just got better

August 13, 2015

As long as I can remember we’ve stopped at Squamish on the way to Whistler. When I was younger it meant that we’d get an Egg McMuffin and coffee in the early morning on the way to a day of skiing from Vancouver. And then Tim Horton’s came along and we started stopping there for […]

If you need a Tesla discount code for supercharging when you buy a Tesla electric car

July 30, 2015

So we bought a Tesla Model S in 2015, and I try to write about the road trips we’ve taken in our Model S with the kids whenever I can. We’ve visited Whistler, Couer D’Alene and Vancouver Island and it’s been really easy to charge and drive on and on and on. And I know […]

A family weekend Tesla Trip to Coeur d’Alene and stops along the way (roadtrips from Seattle)

July 29, 2015

It’s a great time for electric cars in Seattle right now-everyday it seems like we see more and more on the road and I even noticed a bus advertising AAA emergency roadside charging service for electric vehicles and they have a lot of resources on their website too. This type of thing makes road trips […]

What does Boulder Beach at Silverwood look like

Surviving the BIG coaster for the first time (Silverwood Theme Park, Idaho)

July 11, 2015

“You guys are headed to Silverwood today? Us too!” some big kids in the breakfast lineup at our hotel asked when they heard my husband and kids talking about our trip to Silverwood Theme Park. You’re going to have the BEST time!!!” And then they went on to tell us that they had visited when […]

The Mudgy and Millie Trail (Coeur D’alene, Idaho with kids)

June 30, 2015

Can you believe how close Idaho is to Seattle? I totally had no idea until I started hearing about Idaho in a family travel chat that some of my family travel blogging friends put on and then I figured out that some of the places they were talking about were only a 3-ish hour drive […]