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 […]
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 […]
Great Smoky Mountains Trip, Part 1: Inside the Park
We’re only 3-4 hours from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, depending on which part we’re trying to get to, so I feel like it really ought to be our National Park….yet this was only the second time we managed to make it there as a family. The first time was only a year ago, […]
The Breakwater in Provincetown + Old Harbor Life Saving Station + Highland Light: More Cape Cod
Back when I was in grad school, Dave and I and a few friends randomly decided to go to Provincetown, MA one weekend….in January. There was still snow on the ground from a recent storm, but the actual days we were there were unseasonably warm. This was back before my obsessive planning phase, and one […]
A Few Days in Vogel State Park, Blairsville, GA: Campground Review
Not to get too political, but I love it when Big Government sends hundreds of thousands of unemployed young men off to build state parks for me and my family to enjoy eighty years later. Vogel State Park, on the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains and about two hours north of Atlanta, is the […]
Two Days in Shenandoah National Park
When I was in college, my roommate Suzanne and I took a road trip up to Washington, DC and back. My memory on this might be completely wrong, but I feel like this involved driving the entire length of the Blue Ridge Parkway AND Skyline Drive. In the Chevy Cavalier I’d inherited from my grandmother, […]
Mammoth Cave Weekend: Spring Break, Part 1
We actually had a trip to Asheville, NC all booked for spring break. Campground booked, list of places we wanted to see all planned out. We’ve passed through Asheville and stopped there briefly before, but never spent any significant time there. Then I started to get a little nervous about planning a trip that involved […]
Red Top Mountain State Park and Campground Review; or Continuation of Remains of Industry Tour: THWARTED!
As regular readers will recall, we are, it seems, on a quest to become experts on the history of the iron industry in the Southeastern United States. Or, anyway, we saw a lot of iron-related sites on our recent trip to Birmingham. And we happen to have a state park nearby that hosts an iron […]
Birmingham, Alabama: The Remains of Industry Tour, Part 2
When we left off, we had just finished our first day in Birmingham with a visit to an old quarry, and we were all set to see more industrial relics the next day. But first up on Sunday, we checked out Oak Mountain State Park, a large state park about 20 miles south of Birmingham. […]