Travel dates: December 27-January 2, 2019/20 (I have lots more Jekyll content in my original things to do on Jekyll post, and this one, and in this podcast that I recorded with RV Atlas) My tombstone could read, “loved islands, hated boats.” There’s probably some deep metaphorical significance there that’s eluding me at the moment […]
Our 2020 Travel Plans
2019 was a great travel year, but it wasn’t a very RV-intensive travel year. 2020 should see us back to exploring the US and a bit of Canada with the trailer in tow, though. The working title of our big summer trip this year is “Less Baseball, More Lakes.” Originally it was supposed to involve […]
Top 14 Travel Highlights of 2019
Every New Year’s Eve we sit down with the kids, and everyone makes lists of our favorite travel-related memories from the past year. It’s become an elaborate ritual and one of our favorite traditions. Here’s how it goes down: everyone makes their own secret list, and then we enter them into a word document so […]
Planning a First Trip to Ireland with Kids and Teens: Our Two Week Itinerary
Travel dates: June 16-30, 2019 Hey, I finally get to talk about Ireland! The Ireland part of our trip was a little more challenging to plan than the England part. It was, for one thing, a bit longer at 14 days versus 10, and it also involved more people, specifically Dave’s sister and her family […]
A Weekend in Macon, Georgia with Kids and Teens
When we’re visiting a new place, I like to spend a lot of time online (some would say too much) finding the very best things to do there, with an emphasis, if possible, on hidden gem type things that might not make the TripAdvisor top 10. And this is how the 64 foot concrete slide in […]
Cavendish Campground at Prince Edward Island National Park: A Review
Travel dates: July 13-17, 2018 (I messed up and forgot to write this back when I was covering PEI! Read about everything else we did in Cavendish here) It was the best of campgrounds; it was the worst of campgrounds… Our stay at Cavendish Campground in Prince Edward Island National Park started off on a very bad note: […]
Rail and Sail from Britain to Ireland with Kids: A Tale of Many Trains
Travel date: June 16, 2019 There were already five separate flights in our UK/Ireland trip, just to get us there and back home again. So when it came time to decide how to get from our last UK stop in Bakewell to Dublin, I lobbied hard for taking the ferry instead of yet another plane. […]
Bakewell and the Peak District: Exploring England with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June 13-16, 2019 At some point or another in the planning stage of our England trip, we considered just about everywhere in the country as a potential third stop after London and Bath. We eventually landed on Bakewell in the Peak District through some combination of intention, luck, and randomness. We wanted something […]
Things to Do in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, NC with Kids and Teens
Our England/Ireland trip was the big event of our summer, but we also got a chance to visit one of our other dream destinations: Greensboro, North Carolina. Okay, if I’m being completely honest, we were really in Greensboro because our 16 year old, Milo, attended music camp at UNC-Greensboro. It’s about five hours from home, so it made […]
Fundy National Park and Hopewell Rocks with Kids and Teens
travel dates: July 17-19, 2018 Many years ago, I heard of the Bay of Fundy for the first time. A co-worker of Dave’s at the Museum of Science in Boston went there for some kind of research trip, and he told me about it and about the Really Impressive Tides. So I had that information […]