I just checked, and somehow I never did a top travel memories of 2025 post nor a preview of 2026 plans post! WTH? I always do that! Maybe I was just too excited about how I was planning to get a puppy in 8 months back then. Have I mentioned that we have a puppy? […]
A Week In and Around Kansas City
travel dates: June, 2025 We tend to like midwestern cities a lot. And we had never spent much time in Kansas City before. But still, we would not have devoted an entire week of our summer trip to Kansas City were it not for AP exams. Backstory: Dave is an AP Calc teacher and has […]
The National Cathedral, National Gallery, and Ford’s Theatre: New to Us in DC
travel dates: July, 2024 It is finally here! The last post about our summer 2024 trip! Just in time for us to have gotten back from our 2026 trip! Which, of course, more about that later. And about our 2025 trip. And…stuff. Also we just got a puppy, so I don’t know how I’m ever […]
A Few New England Days: New Hampshire, Vermont, and Western Massachusetts (and a border crossing with eggs)
travel dates: July, 2024 After a tour of all the biggest cities in Ontario and Quebec, we were ready to start heading home. Which started with a border crossing. I had dutifully made sure we didn’t have any meat or produce to complicate things for our return to the US (some meat and produce is […]
Quebec City KOA Holiday: A Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2024 One of the reasons we stayed at KOAs for both of our Quebec stops was the promise of bilingual staffs, and we did indeed get this as promised. But when we checked in to the Quebec City KOA, Dave decided to try out a (very) little bit of French and bravely […]
Things to Do in Québec City with Kids and Teens
travel dates: July, 2024 “Our city looks old because we built it to look old,” revealed our tour guide as we wandered the ridiculously picturesque streets of Old Québec with him. Which doesn’t mean that the buildings aren’t actually old–they are, with many dating to the 19th century and others as far back as the […]
Montreal South KOA Journey: Campground Review
travel dates: July 2024 We stayed at KOAs for both of our stops in Quebec partially because both Montreal and Quebec City have well-reviewed, conveniently located KOAs and partially because we kind of wanted some familiarity and sense of knowing what to expect. And, indeed, both KOAs were very much….KOAs, with all the amenities we […]
New England Fall Break (aka Boston with Kids)
Back in the old days, Dave taught in a different school district and had a week long break in September, and we went to Disney every single year for a long time. Our kids were young, the parks were uncrowded, and it was (relatively) cheap. Then he changed schools, to pretty much the only county […]
Three Days in Montreal with Kids and Teens
Sometimes there’s a stop on a trip where nothing seems to go quite right, and Montreal was that place for us. And, yet, Montreal is still probably the single city from our Canadian Cities itinerary that I’d be quickest to return to, which I think is a testament to what a very cool city it […]
Revisiting Old Favorites in St. Louis
travel dates: June, 2025 What with it being the gateway to the west and all, we find ourselves planning routes that take us through St. Louis pretty frequently. And we never mind, because St. Louis is a pretty great city. So when we needed to drive right through St. Louis yet again on our summer […]