I was reading back through my post about our 2018 plans, and I found that I approached 2018 with all the big trips laid out already, with only a few weekends here and there left to fill in. A lot of those plans never actually materialized– we’ve had a very busy schedule of kid activities and […]
Our Top 15 Travel Highlights of 2018
For the second year in a row, our New Year’s travel plans were thwarted by weather. Last year it was extreme cold and icy roads in the forecast all over the southeast; this year it was rain and thunderstorms and tornado warnings. (Incidentally, I posted about canceling our trip on an RVing facebook group and […]
Two Days in Acadia National Park with Kids: Not Quite Canada
Travel dates: June 18-21, 2018 Gearing up to write this post, I had feelings about it similar to the feelings I had about the actual stop on the trip: I kind of just want to get to Canada already! But I also know that Acadia is fabulous, and I want to make sure it gets […]
Quechee/Pine Valley KOA: Campground Review
Generally when we’re looking for a campground, we’re looking for one near some attraction or national park or whatever. But this time our main objective was to be close to Dave’s parents’ house in West Lebanon, NH. If someone were looking for a campground near our house, they’d be hard pressed to find one closer […]
A Day in Little Rock, Arkansas: Clinton Library and a Bunch of Bridges
I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a city as proud of its bridges as Little Rock. To be fair, it has some very nice bridges. And you have to get across the river somehow, right? Might as well be on your choice of several lovely bridges. Little Rock was our second stop on our […]
Graceland : College Visit Road Trip Fun
Real time update here before we return to summer in New England: some of you will remember the soft spot in the trailer floor that we discovered just before leaving for our summer trip (like the day before). We found no obvious cause for it while we were gone, but a few days of heavy […]
A Day in Vermont: Quechee Gorge and Vermont’s Only National Park
Travel date: June 16, 2018 We left off with our extended family scattered all over New England: Dave, his mom, and the younger kids were still on Cape Cod, and Ari, Dave’s dad, and I were in western Mass visiting Amherst and Williams colleges. But we were all reunited in Quechee, Vermont, where we made […]
The Worst Whale Watch
Travel dates: June 8-15, 2018 I’ve been trying to think of a moment–a beat, a vignette–to perfectly encapsulate the surreal hell that was our Cape Cod whale watch. Maybe the time when the increasingly nervous sounding naturalist whose job it was to tell us about both whales and safety over the loudspeaker finally gave up […]
Back to Cape Cod: Exploring Eastham, MA with Kids
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 […]