It’s finally here! The very last post about our summer 2021 trip! Don’t worry; I’m still behind, as I have a couple of winter/spring trips to blog about, too, before I turn my attention fully to summer of 2022. But I can see the possibility of actually being all caught up glimmering in the far distance ahead […]
Two Days in Cincinnati with Kids and Teens: In which we become the World’s Biggest William Howard Taft Fans
travel dates: July 2021 Despite fond childhood memories of watching WKRP in Cincinnati in syndication, I had never spent any time in Cincinnati aside from passing through on the interstate. So when we found ourselves passing through again on our way home from Detroit, we decided to stop for a couple of days and see […]
A Belated Visit (Lots of Visits, Really) to the Henry Ford near Detroit, MI
travel dates: July, 2021 Flashback! November, 2019. It is Black Friday. I get the brilliant idea that maybe there are some good deals out there that we can use on our summer, 2020 trip to Michigan. I do some sleuthing and find a great sale on memberships to the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan! […]
A Day on Detroit’s Belle Isle
travel dates July, 2022 I talked about our time in Detroit on the RV Atlas podcast awhile back. Give it a listen here. There’s something about islands. I just like them. (But not boats, as I’ve mentioned before. An unfortunate pairing). So when I learned about Detroit’s Belle Isle, a 982 acre public park with […]
Wayne County Fairgrounds RV Park near Detroit, MI: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2021 You can listen to me talking about Wayne County Fairgrounds and our trip to Detroit on the RV Atlas Podcast There’s something about the challenge of finding good RV camping near big cities that appeals to me. Sometimes it’s pretty straightforward, and there’s a solid campground very close to the city (the Philadelphia South KOA). […]
Two Days in Niagara Falls with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: July 2021 For the National Park Service, Niagara Falls has long been a cautionary tale: we need to protect America’s natural wonders quick, before they all go the way of Niagara Falls–commercialized and built up and surrounded by tourist traps! And it’s true. That’s what Niagara Falls is like, and it would be nicer if […]
Four Mile Creek State Park near Niagara Falls: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2021 I talked about this campground awhile back on the RV Atlas podcast: you can listen to that episode here We stayed at some really nice resort type campgrounds on this trip and very much enjoyed them. There are some resort type campgrounds in the Niagara Falls area that have wonderful reviews and would […]
Two Days in the Finger Lakes with Kids and Teens: Seneca Falls and Watkins Glen State Park
Travel dates: July, 2021 There were two things we wanted to make sure to see while we were in New York’s Finger Lakes region last summer, one of them a little more…obvious than the other. We knew we wanted to go to Watkins Glen State Park, for this was the summer of hiking through gorges. […]
Sned-Acres Family Campground: Campground Review
Travel dates: July, 2021 We had a bit of a motley itinerary in summer of 2021, one that tied together New England with parts of the midwest. But one nice thing about this somewhat inefficient route is that it let us spend some time along the way checking out parts of New York we’d never […]
Visiting Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY
travel dates: July, 2021 A quick post today about Opus 40, a cool place we went that doesn’t really fit in anywhere as part of a longer post. We were in the area to tour Bard College with Milo, our current senior, and we had just enough time to fit in a visit to Opus […]