Travel dates: June 4-9, 2018 If you’re looking into your RV-friendly campground options close to New York City, the first place you’ll hear about is Liberty Harbor, just across the river in Jersey City. After that, people mention Black Bear Campground, 60 miles north of Manhattan, and a couple of KOAs that are even farther […]
Valley Forge with Kids: June is Fickle
We had two full days in the Philadelphia area, and we had to decide whether to spend day two in the city again (you can read about day one here) or to venture farther out and go somewhere we’d never been before, like, for example, Valley Forge. We had plans to meet up that day […]
History, Heat, and Ice Cream: A Day in Philadelphia with Kids
Travel date: June 2, 2018 We’ve been to Philadelphia several times now, and it seems like something always pops up to keep us from having the perfect day there. Like the time we were walking back to our car after visiting the Franklin Institute and the skies suddenly opened up with the most apocalyptic rainstorm we’ve […]
Lake Fairfax Park Campground Review: Great Option near Washington, DC
Travel dates: May 29-June 1, 2018 I think of Washington, DC as right up there near the top of the list of cities you’d rather not get anywhere near with a car, much less a giant RV. Given this, there are a surprising number of reasonable campground options near the city. I mean, you’re not […]
Two Days in Washington, DC with Kids: National Museum of African American History and Culture + More
Travel dates: May 30-31, 2018 I thought of the first part of our summer trip as a sampling of east coast cities. We sort of raced up the coast, stopping for just a couple of days in cities that we could easily have spent a week in. But Nova Scotia was calling. And the nice […]
Falls Lake State Recreation Area, Rolling View: Campground Review
If you want to go see lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center, you’re going to need a campground to stay at, right? Right. I remember at some point I was having trouble finding a well-reviewed RV park near Durham, but now I can’t figure out why. There are several different State Recreation Area campgrounds in […]
PEI, New Brunswick, and Heading Back Home: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #6
Hey, we’re home! So here’s the very last update! I don’t think we even had an RVing catastrophe in the last stretch. There was the campground in New Brunswick where they locked us in. We tried to leave to go get gas (and see the world’s largest axe) at a little after 9, only to […]
More Nova Scotia: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #5
A cautionary tale about Verizon’s “Beyond Unlimited” plan: if you ask, when you sign up for the unlimited plan, if it will work the same in Canada, the folks at Verizon will tell you that absolutely it will. And then, when you cross into Canada, you’ll get a friendly text telling you that you’re all […]
First Week in Nova Scotia: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #4
Travel dates: June 21-29, 2018 We love Nova Scotia! I’m so in love with Atlantic Canada, in fact, that I want to start planning a trip to Newfoundland for next summer. But Dave thinks we should go west again instead. Boo. I guess there’s stuff worth seeing in other places, too. RVing disasters: We continue to have […]
Cape Cod, Vermont, and Acadia National Park: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #3
We left off as we were leaving New York and finishing up our tour of big east coast cities. From here on out, the biggest city we’re going to see is Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is….a wee bit smaller than NYC. RVing disasters! We still have the same disaster, which is that Ari’s HappiJac bed […]