New Hampshire has only 18 miles of coastline, but it doesn’t waste an inch of it, efficiently packing in a handful of state parks, the historic small city of Portsmouth, and the touristy Hampton Beach, with its boardwalk, live music, and crowds. But for most people, the first thing that comes to mind about the […]
Cape Cod Again! Because you can never have too much Cape Cod
Travel dates: June, 2021 We’ve been to Cape Cod many, many times, and I’ve already blogged about the two times that happened post trailer acquisition. We’ve been going since my big kids were littler than THIS: So if you’re looking for more of “things to do with kids on Cape Cod” sort of post, I […]
Tips for Painless Art Museum Visits with Kids: MFA + DIA in Boston and Detroit
There’s an eleven year spread between our oldest and youngest kids, so we’ve been forced to become experts on finding travel destinations that appeal to a wide variety of ages and/or to find ways to make the sights we choose to see fun and accessible for everyone. But art museums have always been our biggest […]
World’s End Trail in Hingham, MA
For every long trip we take, Dave makes an elaborate spreadsheet listing mileage and campground reservation numbers and all that sort of thing, and I make a no less elaborate but much less spreadsheet-y day-by-day itinerary document with all our tentative plans for each day. The number of categories on the itinerary has grown over […]
In Order to Form a More Perfect Duckling: Exploring the Freedom Trail with Kids and Teens
Why is Boston the setting for so many great kids’ books about birds? Well, I mean, at least two: Trumpet of the Swan and Make Way for Ducklings, both of which Abe has read over the past year or so. So before we could actually get to the Freedom Trail proper, we stopped to explore the Public Garden […]
Boats, Baleen, and Baby Seagulls: New Bedford, MA with Kids and Teens
Long time readers will perhaps remember the last time we attempted to learn about whales on a trip: the disastrous whale watch near Provincetown. Everyone was still far too scarred by that experience to attempt another whale watch a mere three years later, but we do still love whales….so we decided to visit the New Bedford Whaling […]
Normandy Farms in Foxborough, MA: A Campground Review
If you’re looking for an RV park near Boston, you’ll probably hear about two choices: one is Minuteman Campground, which we stayed at and liked a lot several years ago, and the other is Normandy Farms, which we stayed at the for the first time this summer: After I tell you about Normandy Farms, I’ll […]
2021 Summer Road Trip, Part 4: Westward!
We’re home now! We’ve been home for more than a week, in fact. Dave had to go back to work two days after we got back, so things have been hectic. We usually try to leave ourselves more of a cushion before things start back up, but that didn’t happen this year since we had […]
2021 Summer Road Trip, Part 3: More New England
I’ve been pretty slow about getting these updates out, with the consequence that we are now less than a week from getting home! We’ll get home two days before Dave has to go back to school, which is cutting it a lot closer than we usually do (we did it that way because we had […]
2021 Summer Road Trip, Part 2: Assorted Beaches
We’re now past the halfway point of our summer trip, and I’m feeling a little bummed about it. FOREVER ROAD TRIP! Is what I seem to want. But this is certainly better than being desperate to get home when we still have three weeks to go, I suppose. We’re in Burlington, Vermont at the moment, […]