Thursday was our last full day in St. Louis and, thus, our last chance to finally make it up into the Gateway Arch. Our first attempt, you might recall, ended with a mechanical problem and severe disappointment (particularly for poor Milo). And then we briefly considered trying again after leaving the City Museum on Wednesday, […]
More St. Louis: City Museum (Spring Break, Part 4)
When you mention that you’re going to St. Louis to pretty much anyone who knows anything about St. Louis, the first thing they do is make sure that you are aware of and planning to visit the City Museum. And who are we to argue with everyone? So of course it was at the top […]
St. Louis West/Historic Route 66 KOA: Campground Review
We chose the St. Louis West KOA as our home base for our St. Louis trip because it had great reviews and, in particular, came highly recommended by Kerri of Travels with Birdy, both on her blog and on the Campground of the Week podcast. I reread her review right before I sat down to […]
Tales from the Road: When Nightmares Come to Life (like, literally)
When I was a kid, I had this nightmare that, it seems, affected me so deeply that I remember it in detail decades later. In this dream, my mom, my brother, and I were out going to garage sales, and my mom said she would take us all to McDonalds. But she missed the turn […]
Our First Day in St. Louis: The Museum of Transportation and the Gateway Arch (sort of): Spring Break Trip, Part 3
I think the greatest compliment you can pay a city is looking at real estate listings after you visit. I paid St. Louis this compliment, even though, to be clear, I’m never moving again. But we really enjoyed St. Louis and barely scratched the surface of things to do there during our three day visit […]
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: Spring Break, Part 2
Some people travel to see beautiful scenery. Some people want to eat at the best restaurants in the world. For some, it’s all about touring masterpieces of architecture. Me? I’m mostly in it for the Abraham Lincoln stuff. We plan to do a big tour of Lincoln-related sites sometime in the window when our own […]
Jellystone Mammoth Cave Campground Review
We had big plans to stay at the campground at Mammoth Cave and give dry camping a try for the first time. Then we kind of panicked, mostly about the possibility of it being very cold, and booked the Jellystone down the street instead. It turned out to be very cold indeed–below freezing one night–so […]
Mammoth Cave Weekend: Spring Break, Part 1
We actually had a trip to Asheville, NC all booked for spring break. Campground booked, list of places we wanted to see all planned out. We’ve passed through Asheville and stopped there briefly before, but never spent any significant time there. Then I started to get a little nervous about planning a trip that involved […]
Red Top Mountain State Park and Campground Review; or Continuation of Remains of Industry Tour: THWARTED!
As regular readers will recall, we are, it seems, on a quest to become experts on the history of the iron industry in the Southeastern United States. Or, anyway, we saw a lot of iron-related sites on our recent trip to Birmingham. And we happen to have a state park nearby that hosts an iron […]
Making a Magnet Board for the Trailer (and How NOT to Make a Magnet Board)
Post contains affiliate links; thanks for supporting Boxy Colonial on the Road! Magnets are our go to souvenir on trips these days. They’re pretty, they’re functional, and, of course, they’re cheap. When I win the lottery, it’s matching T-shirts for the whole family from every gift shop we pass! But until then…. Magnets. But, sadly, […]