We just got back from our summer vacation: one week (plus one weekend) of the Great American Road Trip to Yellowstone and back, with one-day layovers in the Black Hills each way. We stayed in a nice ski resort in Jackson Hole, a place which would have been unaffordable in February, but which was quite the value in early June.

When we got back Sunday evening, we asked the twins what their favorite part of the trip was.

Was it the tour of Jewel Cave? Seeing the Crazy Horse monument? The hotel with the big water slide?

Was it seeing the geysers and mud-pots of Yellowstone? Or the Grand Tetons?

Was it riding the tram to the top of a 10,000-foot mountain? White-water rafting? Seeing the re-creation of a gunfight?

Was it the Reptile Gardens and the demonstration of gator-wrestling?

No. The twins' favorite part of the trip was "the driving."

Next year, we'll just drive around the block a few hundred times and save a ton of money.