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, […]
A Quick Stop in Falmouth and Thoughts on Sun Retreats Cape Cod
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 […]
Don’t Forget Twillingate (Like I Did. Sorry, Twillingate!) RVing Newfoundland for One More Post
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. […]
Bronte Creek Provincial Park near Toronto: Campground Review
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 […]
Terra Nova National Park and Newman Sound Campground: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
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 […]
Pippy Park, St. John’s Campground Review: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
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 […]
Grand Falls Windsor and Sanger Memorial RV Park: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
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 […]
Gros Morne/Norris Point KOA Review: Newfoundland’s Only 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 […]
Some Iowa and Some Hannibal, MO: Finally Wrapping Up Summer 2022
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 […]
Port Au Choix and the Great Northern Peninsula, Briefly: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: June, 2023 North of Gros Morne National Park, Highway 430–aka The Viking Trail– hugs the western coast of Newfoundland for 150 miles or so up the Great Northern Peninsula, before turning eastward, finally ending in the town of St. Anthony. The drive is beautiful and the road surprisingly good by Newfoundland standards. People […]