travel dates: June, 2023 We live just north of Atlanta, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. The southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail is just about an hour and a half from our house. Though the trail officially ends in Maine, the mountain range itself extends all the way to Newfoundland and ends with […]
Medora Campground by Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2022 This post is where you’ll find all the info about stuff we did while staying at Medora Campground I talk about Medora Campground and Theodore Roosevelt National Park on this episode of the RV Atlas podcast I’m a sucker for a campground from which we can walk into town. And one […]
Water’s Edge Gros Morne Campground Review: Exploring Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June, 2023 Back in 2018 we went on a wretched, miserable whale watch on a boat that left from Provincetown, MA. I blogged about it here. You might think, in exchange for the terror and seasickness, we would at least have had some amazing whale sightings. But, in fact, we had better views […]
Three Days in Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Medora, North Dakota
travel dates: July 2022 I talked about Theodore Roosevelt National Park awhile ago on the RV Atlas Podcast, if you’d care to listen. You can’t spend much time in Theodore Roosevelt National Park without hearing someone or other invoke the 26th president’s thoughts on North Dakota: “I have always said I never would have been […]
2024 Travel Plans! Back to Canada
A quick post about our 2024 travel plans, which are, as is often the case in recent years, still on the tentative side. Some of them anyway. We have plans to see the solar eclipse, complete with an Airbnb that we booked over a year in advance. We’ve been looking forward to it ever since […]
Belated Top Ten Travel Memories of 2023
One of my favorite family traditions is the game we play every New Year’s Eve where we all make lists of our favorite travel memories of the year and then try to guess which list belongs to each person. The last couple of years have gotten a little tricky, though, as the older kids have […]
Codroy Valley and Grand Codroy RV Park: Our First Day in Newfoundland
travel dates: June 2023 We drove off the ferry in Newfoundland into some of the strongest wind we’ve ever encountered. There’s a visitor information center just a few minutes from the ferry in Port Aux Basques, and we stopped there to let the dogs out and to pick up some brochures and laughed about how […]
Going Underground in Havre, MT: Havre Beneath the Streets Tour
travel dates July 2022 Our original plan called for us to spend a couple of nights in Great Falls after leaving Glacier, check out Lewis and Clark stuff and all that. But I got very nervous looking at a map of our route east after Great Falls, which included a long stretch on “the Loneliest […]
Visiting Newfoundland: The Best Trip You’ll Ever Take to Somewhere Most Americans Can’t Find on a Map
Scroll to the bottom for links to every Newfoundland post! I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that Newfoundland was our favorite trip ever (or at least yet). There are a lot of places I haven’t been–it’s true–but I have seen some pretty amazing places and covered the lower 48 and Atlantic Canada pretty well over the […]
Amherst Shore Provincial Park, Nova Scotia: A Quick Campground Review
travel dates: June, 2023 I promised to come back with a review of Amherst Shore Provincial Park when I mentioned it in my long post about the Newfoundland Ferry. A review didn’t really make sense in that post since Amherst Shore is 250 miles from the ferry; honestly, Amherst Shore didn’t really make sense for […]