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Thanksgiving on Jekyll Island (Mostly a Photo Diary)

May 13, 2022 by kokotg 2 Comments

boys on beach at Jekyll

Travel dates: Thanksgiving, 2021 Taking a quick break from last summer’s trip to fill in a bit about our school year travels. We didn’t do a ton of that, but we spend a wonderful week on Jekyll Island with Dave’s parents. We were at the Jekyll Island Campground and they had a condo rental nearby. […]

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Introducing! Our Venture Stratus 281VBH (and a First Trip to Don Carter State Park)

May 17, 2021 by kokotg 2 Comments

Look what we got! Meet our new Venture Stratus 281vbh: Longtime readers might remember our LAST new trailer and how I called it our biggest impulse buy ever.  There was a little more forethought put into this purchase, but it still happened pretty fast. Up until maybe January we were nearly certain we would be […]

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Tybee Island Revisited (Plus a Little Savannah)

January 25, 2021 by kokotg Leave a Comment

I didn’t realize how much I’d missed the beach until I finally made it back to it. We planned a trip to Tybee for Thanksgiving week with Dave’s parents (who live in New Hampshire and who usually come to Georgia for Thanksgiving) back in late summer/early fall–when COVID numbers were fairly low and we had […]

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Exploring in and Around Clayton, GA with Kids and Teens

September 14, 2020 by kokotg 1 Comment

It’s been a long, weird, stressful summer for us, as for most people. But as is usually the way with such things, some good things came out of it, and one of those good things was that we finally spent some time exploring the very northeasternmost corner of Georgia (a replacement trip for our planned […]

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Ten MORE Things to Do on Jekyll Island with Kids: Off the Beaten Path Edition

January 16, 2020 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel dates: December 27-January 2, 2019/20 (I have lots more Jekyll content in my original things to do on Jekyll post, and this one, and in this podcast that I recorded with RV Atlas) My tombstone could read, “loved islands, hated boats.” There’s probably some deep metaphorical significance there that’s eluding me at the moment […]

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A Weekend in Macon, Georgia with Kids and Teens

November 3, 2019 by kokotg 2 Comments

When we’re visiting a new place, I like to spend a lot of time online (some would say too much) finding the very best things to do there, with an emphasis, if possible, on hidden gem type things that might not make the TripAdvisor top 10. And this is how the 64 foot concrete slide in […]

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St. Simons Island with Kids: Fort Frederica and a Lighthouse to Climb

April 19, 2018 by kokotg 2 Comments

Travel dates: April 3, 2018 If you stand on Jekyll Island‘s Driftwood Beach and look north, you can see the lighthouse of Jekyll’s bigger, more congested neighbor, St. Simons. St. Simons is another of the four barrier islands that make up Georgia’s “Golden Isles” (the others are Little St. Simons and Sea Island), and we […]

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Jekyll Island Campground Review: Location, Location, Location (and also bugs)

April 16, 2018 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Travel dates: April 1-8, 2018 Jekyll Island Campground is the only game in town if you want to stay on the island in your RV. So it’s always nice to see a place like that do their best to make your stay pleasant, even though they could probably keep the place full even if they […]

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14 Things to Do on Jekyll Island with Kids

April 12, 2018 by kokotg 15 Comments

Travel dates: April 1-8, 2018 Update 1/19/2020: We went to Jekyll Island again and found even MORE things to do! Check that post out after you finish this one. You can hear me talking more about Jekyll Island on the RV Atlas Podcast. Thanks to the Jekyll Island Authority for providing passes to some of the attractions mentioned […]

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Jimmy Carter, More Jimmy Carter, and a Canyon: A South Georgia Weekend (also there was beer)

December 20, 2017 by kokotg 2 Comments

travel dates: November 18-20, 2017 It was the night before we were all going to go to Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school class, and I was fretting. I’d never been in the same room with a real, live president before. What would we say? What were we supposed to do? Would the Secret Service be suspicious […]

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