travel dates: July, 2022 I couldn’t resist the Superfund wordplay in the title up there. I tried. It’s true that we really enjoyed Butte, though, more than we thought we would, even though we didn’t get to do any of things we’d planned to do there. Superfund is a program established by Congress in 1980 […]
Bozeman, Montana with Kids and Teens (and farewell to the Inn on the Gallatin)
travel dates: June, 2022 Like with so many drives during our summer of mountains, I was a little worried about the one that would take us from Brigham City, Utah to Bozeman, Montana. And as with all of the drives, I needn’t have worried. With the help of the Mountain Driving Directory and a good […]
Two Days in Chicago with Kids and Teens or, In the Midwest it’s Always Still Snowing in April
travel dates: April 2022 Taking a quick break from last summer’s blog posts for a belated recap of last spring’s spring break trip to Chicago–everyone’s favorite spring break destination. Well. Not really. But we had a few different midwestern colleges we needed go get to so that our then senior, Milo, could pick one of them […]
Visiting Spiral Jetty and Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah (in which we sacrifice a hubcap for art)
travel dates: June, 2022 In 1970, artist Robert Smithson hired a crew to haul nearly 7000 tons of rock to the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah and arrange it into a 1500 foot long spiral jutting counterclockwise into the lake. The sculpture is stunning to look at, and it has a […]
An Evening in Helper, Utah and a Review of Castle Gate RV Park
travel dates: June, 2022 After a week in Durango, it was time to say goodbye to Dave’s family and head for another new-to-us state: Utah. Dave has long dreamed of an RV trip to all the National Parks in Utah, whereas I have long explained that I’ll be happy to go to all the National […]
Visiting Mesa Verde National Park with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June 2022 An important thing I learned at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is that I would make a terrible cliff dweller. For one thing there’s the ancestral Pueblo peoples’ fondness for ladders, and I’ve made my trepidation about ladders clear on here before. Then there’s the crawling through tight, enclosed spaces. And then […]
Visiting Durango, CO with Kids and Teens
We had just spent a week suffering through near record high summer temperatures in Santa Fe, NM, so we were excited for the change when Durango, CO greeted us with…a dangerous hailstorm. I’m just kidding. It wasn’t actually nice. We had to pull over at one point, just a few minutes outside of town, because […]
Bandelier National Monument and Los Alamos with Kids and Teens
Abe can be a nervous kid, particularly when heights are involved. I understand this, because I can be a nervous grown-up under the same circumstances. But I’m happy to report that, after some initial trepidation, both Abe and I conquered our fears at Bandelier National Monument and climbed the very scary ladders into the cavate […]
Things to Do in Santa Fe, New Mexico with Kids and Teens: City of Many Museums
Santa Fe, New Mexico sits at over 7000 feet in elevation, keeping its summer temperatures more reasonable than the ones associated with other cities in the southwest. The average high in June is in the low 80s, which is one of the major reasons it earned a spot on our summer itinerary. I live in […]
2023 Travel Plans: Northward! (and Eastward)
Did you all know that St. John’s, Newfoundland is at the same latitude at Paris? We can’t take our trailer to Paris, though, so…Newfoundland? You’re finally up! Knock wood. We’ve been attempting to make it to Newfoundland for forever it seems, but something or other has always come along and forced us to put it off another […]