Right now we’re supposed to be at Wayne County Fairgrounds outside of Detroit, spending our last night in Michigan before starting to head south. Back when we finally decided to cancel our big Michigan trip after weeks of going back and forth, we immediately booked a couple of shorter trips closer to home to give […]
A Day on Inisheer: Exploring Ireland with Kids and Teens
Going to Inisheer or Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands, was not in our plans originally. But we found ourselves in Connemara with a free day, looked into the logistics, and decided it was a reasonable day trip. Also, we’d missed out on seeing the Cliffs of Moher the day we drove up […]
Wandering Around Galway with Kids and Teens
I was a little flummoxed by the lack of things to do in Galway during the planning stage of our trip. While Dublin was full of art galleries and museums of all sorts, tours, cathedrals, historic sites, Galway seemed to mostly have pubs and quaint medieval streets. I kept thinking I must be missing something, but, after […]
Things to Do in and around Oughterard: Exploring Connemara with Kids and Teens
I started this post back…..before. No one’s going to any pubs in Oughterard anytime soon as I write this. But, I mean, what better time to reflect back on travels past and look forward to a time when it can safely happen again, right? travel dates: June 2019 In all of our Ireland planning, I don’t think any […]
Exploring Killarney National Park, Part 2: Islands, Waterfalls, and Scary Roads
Travel dates: June 21-22, 2019 Killarney, Part 1 here “How many do you have?” asked the boat skipper outside Ross Castle, where we were hoping to catch a ride across the lake to Innisfallen. When we told him there were ten of us, he nodded and said, “I’m licensed for ten.” We climbed aboard and […]
Exploring Killarney National Park with Kids and Teens, Part One: Ruins and Farms
When we checked in to our hotel in Killarney, the woman at reception asked where we were coming from and, when we told her Dublin, said, “oh, you HAVE come a long way!” It is less than 200 miles from Dublin to Killarney….about a three and a half hour drive. The perception of scale is […]
Afternoon in Adare, Ireland: Our First Castle!
Travel date: June 19, 2019 One of the things I miss about RV-less road trips is being able to stop easily to see things along the way. We’ve done some of this with the trailer, but between finding parking and worrying about leaving the dogs, it just doesn’t happen all that often. So we made […]
Two Days in Dublin with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: June 16-19, 2019 Everything I read about Ireland before our trip cautioned me against devoting too much time to Dublin. And, honestly, a quick poll of my family puts Dublin in last place out of our six England/Ireland stops on the trip. But in looking back over our time in Dublin to put […]
Ten MORE Things to Do on Jekyll Island with Kids: Off the Beaten Path Edition
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 […]