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More Dollywood! And Hiking in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. And a Campground Review

June 15, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Dave and Abe in front of pink streamers

travel dates: March and April, 2025 That’s right: there’s a lot going on in this post! Because we keep going to Dollywood. So since our last Dollywood check-in, Abe and I have been back for two more trips–one with Ari and Abby over their spring break and then again with Dave during his spring break. The trip […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, Tennessee

Visiting Kingston, Ontario + a Quick Rideau Acres Campground Review

April 12, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

tour guide in soldier dress at Fort Henry

travel dates: June, 2025 Ah, Kingston! Birthplace of famed Canadian rock band, The Tragically Hip. Here, unnecessarily, are my three favorite Tragically Hip songs: Wheat Kings, Bobcaygeon, Poets. These are actually perhaps the only Tragically Hip songs I can even name. I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying to get more into the band, […]

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Filed Under: 2024 Canadian Cities Trip, Campground Reviews, Canada, museums and attractions, Ontario, Uncategorized

A Quick Stop in Falmouth and Thoughts on Sun Retreats Cape Cod

February 18, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

family on the porch in Falmouth

travel dates: July 2023 On the way home from Newfoundland, we stopped by Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod for a few days to see family. Dave has lots of extended family in the Boston area (and his aunt has a house in Falmouth), his parents came down from New Hampshire, and his sister and her […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, massachusetts

Don’t Forget Twillingate (Like I Did. Sorry, Twillingate!) RVing Newfoundland for One More Post

February 7, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Dave and boat builder at wooden boat building museum

travel dates: July 2023 Remember when I dramatically announced that I was writing my very last Newfoundland post? Yeah, so then I realized that I totally skipped poor Twillingate. We went to Twillingate right after Fogo Island, but apparently I was so eager to talk about St. John’s that I just completely forgot to blog about it. […]

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Filed Under: 2023 Newfoundland Trip, Campground Reviews, museums and attractions, Newfoundland

Bronte Creek Provincial Park near Toronto: Campground Review

January 19, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

boy roasting marshmallow over campfire

travel dates: June, 2024 We’d never been to Toronto before our summer, 2024 trip…but we had planned to go to Toronto more than once. Or at least thought about it. We considered a stop there on our canceled 2020 trip. And then again for our 2021 trip that actually happened…but happened without the Canada parts owing to […]

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Filed Under: 2024 Canadian Cities Trip, Campground Reviews, Canada

Terra Nova National Park and Newman Sound Campground: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens

January 5, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Southwest Arms trail; Dave and abe on trail in woods

travel dates: July, 2023 Here we said goodbye to Nana and Grandpa and also learned that it gets actually, genuinely hot sometimes in Newfoundland. And it’s pretty much always humid, so it’s an unpleasant, wearying sort of hot. Terra Nova is Newfoundland’s oldest national park. Out of two: it’s only competition is Gros Morne on […]

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Filed Under: 2023 Newfoundland Trip, Campground Reviews, Newfoundland

Pippy Park, St. John’s Campground Review: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens

August 12, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Loop 4 Campsite in Pippy Park, St. John's

travel dates: July, 2023 I’ve been reflecting a lot on RVing cities this summer, since our trip took us to Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, and Washington DC (so much city!)…and what I keep coming back to is that city camping doesn’t get much better than Pippy Park in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Pippy Park is right […]

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Filed Under: 2023 Newfoundland Trip, Campground Reviews

Grand Falls Windsor and Sanger Memorial RV Park: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens

May 24, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Gus and Milo posing with a salmon

Travel dates: June 2023 A trip to Newfoundland usually involves a lot traversing the perimeter, clinging to the coast and rarely letting the ocean out of your sight for very long. It’s an island, after all. I won’t pretend that I think this approach to touring is wrongheaded; Newfoundland’s coast is stunningly beautiful, and you […]

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Filed Under: 2023 Newfoundland Trip, Campground Reviews, Canada, Newfoundland

Gros Morne/Norris Point KOA Review: Newfoundland’s Only KOA!

May 14, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Dave at our site at KOA

travel dates: June 2023 Newfoundland has a grand total of one KOA, but it’s a good one. We ended up staying at the Gros Morne/Norris Point KOA for an entire week after we cut a few days out of our Viking Trail plans, and it was a great base camp for exploring the northern side […]

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Filed Under: 2023 Newfoundland Trip, Campground Reviews, Canada, Newfoundland

Some Iowa and Some Hannibal, MO: Finally Wrapping Up Summer 2022

May 10, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

enjoying ice cream from Iowa's Best Burger

travel dates: July, 2022 And then we left Ingalls Homestead and headed home! There were still several stops to go, though, because we don’t live anywhere near South Dakota. Also because Ari had a gig doing research at Iowa State that summer, and we wanted to stop by and visit him. I already told the […]

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Filed Under: 2022 Mountains, Campground Reviews, iowa, missouri

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