Travel dates: June 8-15, 2018 I didn’t grow up going to the beach. We lived north of Atlanta, so several hours from the coast. I think my pre-college oceangoing experiences were limited to a couple of Florida vacations and my 8th grade class trip to Jekyll Island. Dave grew up inland, too, but his family […]
Traveling Light at Disney: Five Things to Bring
I am not the mom who always has bandaids in her bag if someone scrapes a knee. I generally interpret, “pack a lunch” to mean, “toss some Clif bars and string cheese in the car.” The day I was able to stop hauling a diaper bag around with me was one of the happiest of […]
Visiting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Home: Presidents’ Houses and Scotties are some of our Favorite Things
If you’ve been reading for long, you know we never pass up a chance to see a president’s house (as evidenced here, here, here, here, and here. FDR’s Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia is one of our favorite president houses, so we definitely weren’t going to miss his home in Hyde Park. We’re […]
Visiting the Statue of Liberty’s Crown (and Ellis Island)
Visiting the Statue of Liberty’s Crown was one of the most highly anticipated parts of our trip. We’d taken the older kids to the Statue a few years earlier, but we’re very big fans and were excited to make another trip and introduce Abe to her. So adding on crown tickets as something new and […]
The Fabulous/Terrible Disney World Trip, Part 2: Dave Arrives!
A few years ago I wouldn’t have wanted to do any part of a Disney trip without Dave. It would have seemed like a lot of work for a lot of payoff for the kids, but not so much for me. So I was pleased discover during the first, Dave-less, part of this trip, that […]
Our Fabulous, yet Also Sort of Terrible Disney World Trip
We just got back from Disney World last weekend and, wow: that was….something. This was supposed to be our first ever stay at Fort Wilderness, but, sadly, our trailer has been at the dealership for over a month now getting extensive work done, mostly fixing the water damage we first noticed over the summer (more […]
Art, Math, and Singing Waiters: One Day in NYC with Kids
We continued our whirlwind tour of east coast cities with a single day in Manhattan (we were at Croton Point Park for 4 nights, but we also spent one day north of the park and one day visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island). Perhaps this means we should have devoted the time to […]
Croton Point Park: RV Camping Near NYC
Travel dates: June 4-9, 2018 If you’re looking into your RV-friendly campground options close to New York City, the first place you’ll hear about is Liberty Harbor, just across the river in Jersey City. After that, people mention Black Bear Campground, 60 miles north of Manhattan, and a couple of KOAs that are even farther […]
Valley Forge with Kids: June is Fickle
We had two full days in the Philadelphia area, and we had to decide whether to spend day two in the city again (you can read about day one here) or to venture farther out and go somewhere we’d never been before, like, for example, Valley Forge. We had plans to meet up that day […]
History, Heat, and Ice Cream: A Day in Philadelphia with Kids
Travel date: June 2, 2018 We’ve been to Philadelphia several times now, and it seems like something always pops up to keep us from having the perfect day there. Like the time we were walking back to our car after visiting the Franklin Institute and the skies suddenly opened up with the most apocalyptic rainstorm we’ve […]