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Gros Morne National Park, North Side Edition: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens

May 1, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

kids on the rocks at Lobster Cove

Travel dates: June, 2023 To the extent that Gros Morne National Park has a busy side, it’s the area north of Bonne Bay, where you’ll find the touristy little town of Rocky Harbour, popular excursions like the Western Brook Pond Tour, and Gros Morne mountain itself. After our aborted trip up the Great Northern Peninsula, […]

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Port Au Choix and the Great Northern Peninsula, Briefly: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens

March 19, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Abe finds a geocache in Port au Choix

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 […]

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Water’s Edge Gros Morne Campground Review: Exploring Newfoundland with Kids and Teens

February 25, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

dusk at Water's edge campground

travel dates: June, 2023 Back in 2018 we went on a wretched, miserable whale watch on a boat that left from Provincetown, MA. I blogged about it here. You might think, in exchange for the terror and seasickness, we would at least have had some amazing whale sightings. But, in fact, we had better views […]

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Cavendish Campground at Prince Edward Island National Park: A Review

October 19, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel dates: July 13-17, 2018 (I messed up and forgot to write this back when I was covering PEI! Read about everything else we did in Cavendish here) It was the best of campgrounds; it was the worst of campgrounds… Our stay at Cavendish Campground in Prince Edward Island National Park started off on a very bad note: […]

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Filed Under: 2018 East Coast Road Trip, Campground Reviews, Canada, national parks, Prince Edward Island

Fundy National Park and Hopewell Rocks with Kids and Teens

September 29, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

travel dates: July 17-19, 2018 Many years ago, I heard of the Bay of Fundy for the first time. A co-worker of Dave’s at the Museum of Science in Boston went there for some kind of research trip, and he told me about it and about the Really Impressive Tides. So I had that information […]

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Filed Under: 2018 East Coast Road Trip, Campground Reviews, Canada, national parks, New Brunswick

Three Days in Cavendish, on Prince Edward Island with Kids and Teens: Bikes, Beaches, and Anne

September 14, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

travel dates: July 13-17, 2018 I was on the RV Atlas podcast awhile back talking about our stay on PEI, so you can head over there and listen for even MORE PEI info. I knew two things about Prince Edward Island when we started planning this trip: Anne of Green Gables is from there, and […]

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Filed Under: 2018 East Coast Road Trip, beaches, Canada, museums and attractions, national parks, Prince Edward Island

Pictou, Nova Scotia: A Brewery, a Campground, and a Heritage Quay

July 26, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

The inevitable has happened: it’s time for me to write about our last stop in Nova Scotia. And this makes me sad, because–have I mentioned?–I LOVE Nova Scotia. But all good things must come to an end, or so I’ve heard. Pictou was on our itinerary mostly because it’s close to the ferry to Prince Edward […]

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Miners Museum and Glace Bay: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids

July 15, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel date: July 10, 2018 Approximately three minutes in to our coal mine tour at the Miners’ Museum in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, I started to feel a bit panicky. I knew that the ceiling in the mine started out low and only got lower, so that even short adult people like me would have […]

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The Fortress of Louisbourg: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids

July 5, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Looking for a tourist attraction where your kid can learn how to gut a cod? Look no further than the Fortress of Louisbourg! The Fortress of Louisbourg is a National Historic Site with a re-creation of an 18th century French settlement. After our somewhat underwhelming experience with a Canadian living history site at Port Royal, […]

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Mira River Provincial Park, Nova Scotia: Campground Review

June 1, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel dates: July 8-11, 2018 Before our trip, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of Nova Scotia provincial parks, because I couldn’t find out much about them online. Take Mira River, for example. There is one lone review of it on CampgroundReviews.com, from way back in 2014. But there aren’t a lot of choices […]

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