travel dates: July 2024 A fun thing about spending a summer exploring Canada is that sometimes you find yourself touring Canada’s historic Parliament building with one other couple from New Jersey, and you both have a lot of questions about Canadian politics. After this aforementioned tour and a lot of time on Wikipedia, though, I […]
Upper Canada Village and Upper Canada Campground
travel dates: June/July, 2024 Dragging my family to living history sites is something of a hobby for me, so of course Upper Canada Village was on our itinerary. Upper Canada Village bills itself as one of the largest living history sites in Canada and says it aims to “depict life in a rural English Canadian setting during […]
More Dollywood! And Hiking in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. And a Campground Review
travel dates: March and April, 2025 That’s right: there’s a lot going on in this post! Because we keep going to Dollywood. So since our last Dollywood check-in, Abe and I have been back for two more trips–one with Ari and Abby over their spring break and then again with Dave during his spring break. The trip […]
Visiting Boldt Castle: A Brief Return to the US and the Gilded Age
travel dates: June, 2024 I’ve been to a lot of house museums in my time. Like…so many. Every house has a story to tell. But, really, every house has lots of stories it could tell (this is true of most things in the world. The world is a bit of a sprawling mess, and people are the […]
Visiting Kingston, Ontario + a Quick Rideau Acres Campground Review
travel dates: June, 2025 Ah, Kingston! Birthplace of famed Canadian rock band, The Tragically Hip. Here, unnecessarily, are my three favorite Tragically Hip songs: Wheat Kings, Bobcaygeon, Poets. These are actually perhaps the only Tragically Hip songs I can even name. I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying to get more into the band, […]
Two Days in Toronto with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June, 2024 By the end of our first day in Toronto, I’d had an epiphany: the second “t” in Toronto is silent. “Just like Atlanta!” I thought. Also like Atlanta, Toronto can feel sort of…generic big city-esque. There are tall buildings, and people hurrying around doing business things, and they’re not always as […]
Hamilton, Ontario with Kids and Teens: HMCS Haida and the Royal Botanical Gardens
travel dates: June 2024 I didn’t know anything about Hamilton, Ontario before we started planning our Canadian cities trip, but I started looking into it when I realized that Bronte Creek Provincial Park , our campground of choice for exploring Toronto, was actually closer to Hamilton than to Toronto itself. And it was a Canadian […]
A Quick Stop in Falmouth and Thoughts on Sun Retreats Cape Cod
travel dates: July 2023 On the way home from Newfoundland, we stopped by Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod for a few days to see family. Dave has lots of extended family in the Boston area (and his aunt has a house in Falmouth), his parents came down from New Hampshire, and his sister and her […]
Our Dollywood Year Begins
Travel dates: January, 2025 I could take you through the twisted path of thoughts, plans, and questionable math that ended with us sitting at a computer in our Airbnb in New Hampshire over Thanksgiving buying Dollywood season passes. But it would not be that interesting. So instead I will just tell you that Dave, Abe, […]
Don’t Forget Twillingate (Like I Did. Sorry, Twillingate!) RVing Newfoundland for One More Post
travel dates: July 2023 Remember when I dramatically announced that I was writing my very last Newfoundland post? Yeah, so then I realized that I totally skipped poor Twillingate. We went to Twillingate right after Fogo Island, but apparently I was so eager to talk about St. John’s that I just completely forgot to blog about it. […]