If you follow me on Instagram this will be old news by now, but….we bought a new toy hauler! I know. We were kind of surprised, too. We’ve talked about a toy hauler for awhile now; I wrote a blog post way back in February about how much we liked them and how open and […]
2016 in Review: Looking Back at our First Full Year of RVing
We are wrapping up our first full year of RVing with…another trip, but before I fill you in on that, I thought I’d try to do some reflecting on 2016’s travels. First, some numbers: Nights spent camping: 49 (so close to 50. Argh!) This includes 10 nights at public campgrounds and the rest at private. […]
Hagan-Stone Park near Greensboro, NC: Campground Review
It’s finally here: the very last post about our big summer trip! I mean, except I would like to do a kind of overview of our first long RV trip–lessons learned, things we’d do differently, things that worked well, and all that kind of thing. But Greensboro, NC was our last stop of the trip, […]
A Day at Monticello
Travel date: June 17, 2016 At Monticello, they like to talk a lot about “the paradox of Jefferson,” which is to say, how could the guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence, including that bit about how all men are created equal, own slaves? I give the people running things at Monticello a lot of […]
Charlottesville KOA Campground Review
Travel dates: June 16-18, 2016 I was more nervous about the Charlottesville KOA than any other campground on our summer trip, and I attribute this nervousness entirely to its website’s unwavering devotion to truth in advertising. “Highway 64 was not constructed until after our campground was founded,” the website told me. “Our campground is not close […]
Visiting Gettysburg National Military Park with Kids
Travel dates: June 14-16, 2016 Honestly? Battles kind of bore me. I can’t keep the details straight in my mind. I get bogged down in the logistics and weighed down by all the….death and stuff. I love history, but I’m more of a fan of the how ordinary people lived parts. Or the details of […]
Gettysburg Campground: Campground Review
Travel dates: June 14-16, 2016 Sometimes when we’re researching a destination and reading campground reviews, there’s a pretty clear favorite that stands out above all the others in the area and makes for an easy decision. Gettysburg, though, has an abundance of close, well reviewed campgrounds, and we had a little trouble making up our […]
Exploring near Travelers Rest, SC: Table Rock State Park and Carl Sandburg’s Home. And Goats.
After spending Saturday exploring Greenville, we decided to spend our second and last full day of Labor Day weekend checking out some other sites in the Travelers Rest area. As I mentioned in my review of the Travelers Rest KOA, we had four different state parks to choose from within 30 minutes of the campground: […]
Travelers Rest/N Greenville KOA Campground Review
I came away from our Labor Day trip to the Greenville/Travelers Rest, SC area feeling like we’d really mastered the weekend trip. And a big part of that was choosing an awesome and perfectly situated campground. We’d had the Travelers Rest/N Greenville KOA on our list of campgrounds to try since before we even got […]
A Day in Greenville, SC with Kids
A couple of days ago, I took Abe to the Children’s Museum of Atlanta for the first time (I’d been with the older kids, but this was Abe’s first visit). I was driving through the most touristy part of downtown, past the Georgia Aquarium, and the World of Coke, and Centennial Olympic Park, looking for […]