Jenna Crouch summarizes her family's history of vacations over several years in the Midwest and South. Some of the key vacations included staying in a motor home in Wisconsin Dells, renting a smelly van in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, returning to Wisconsin Dells so her brother Montgomery could experience it, watching a cattle drive in Texas during a softball tournament, and visiting the Oklahoma City bombing memorial. Later vacations involved softball tournaments in Chattanooga and Nashville, Tennessee, visiting Dollywood, and returning again to Wisconsin Dells where her brother rode his first roller coaster. The final vacation was spent fishing all day on Cass Lake in Minnesota.