travel dates: October 6-9, 2017 As I mentioned in my campground review of Don Carter State Park, some bad weather cut our trip to the Gainesville area down to one full day from a planned two, so we didn’t get to everything on our list. But we did fit a good bit into our one day […]
Don Carter State Park: Campground Review
travel dates: October 6-9, 2017 We usually try to take advantage of long weekends to go to places that are out of reach for regular weekend trips. But when we were looking at Columbus Day weekend, we realized that Dave had the Monday off, but Ari (who’s taking dual enrollment classes at a local college […]
Mountain View Campground Review: More Mountain Time!
Travel dates: September 22-24, 2017 Since we kind of have a theme going on here, how about one more fun in the mountains kind of post before I get back to talking about the summer trip (which will also soon become very mountainous)? As those who pay attention to my whining will recall, our trailer […]
Dahlonega and Amicalola Falls State Park: a Day in the North Georgia Mountains
A terrible thing happened to us a few weeks ago: we had to cancel our planned Labor Day trip to the Smoky Mountains because our trailer was still in the shop. (Now it’s home! We headed out with it this weekend!) Terrible might be an overstatement, but we were disappointed. So we decided to devote one day of […]
2017 Eclipse! Also some Waterfalls and a Return to Vogel State Park
Travel dates: August 20-21, 2017 For the past few days, I’ve been trying to put my finger on what, exactly, makes a total solar eclipse SO incredible. If you didn’t see the eclipse yourself, you’ve no doubt observed that those who did seem to have been universally awed and overwhelmed by it. Probably people who […]
Heritage RV Park in Augusta, GA: Campground Review
If you’re looking for RV camping near downtown Augusta, you don’t really have a lot of options outside of Heritage RV Park. So it’s lucky that it happens to be a pretty nice place. I’ll say right up front that the big caution here is that there’s no bathroom; if you’re not self-contained, you’re out […]
Eight Things to Do with Kids in Augusta, GA
When a lot of people think of Augusta, Georgia, they think of golf, specifically the Masters’ Tournament that’s held in Augusta every spring. We pretty much never think about golf in any capacity, though, so when we decided to spend a weekend checking out Augusta, we were in it for canal boat tours and president […]
Dodging Tornadoes and Eating Bacon
Travel dates: January 2-3, 2017 We’d originally planned to drive home from Disney all in one day, but it’s a nearly 500 mile drive: way longer than we like to do under any circumstances, and even more so towing the new trailer a long distance for the very first time. So, on the recommendation of […]
A Day on Tybee Island, GA
Travel date: December 29, 2016 I think our Tybee Island day was my favorite from this trip, which has me overanalyzing and trying to figure out why. And I can’t really put my finger on it–some combination of Tybee itself, the stuff we saw there, everyone’s various moods….I wouldn’t be able to replicated the experience […]
Day Two in Savannah: Old Savannah Tours
If you just can’t get enough Savannah, you can read the post about our first day here or my post on my other blog about design and architecture here. Abe is a big fan of transportation. Especially recycling trucks, school buses, mail trucks, and cement mixers, but, really, anything with wheels and a motor will […]