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 […]
Cape Cod Again! Because you can never have too much Cape Cod
Travel dates: June, 2021 We’ve been to Cape Cod many, many times, and I’ve already blogged about the two times that happened post trailer acquisition. We’ve been going since my big kids were littler than THIS: So if you’re looking for more of “things to do with kids on Cape Cod” sort of post, I […]
Tips for Painless Art Museum Visits with Kids: MFA + DIA in Boston and Detroit
There’s an eleven year spread between our oldest and youngest kids, so we’ve been forced to become experts on finding travel destinations that appeal to a wide variety of ages and/or to find ways to make the sights we choose to see fun and accessible for everyone. But art museums have always been our biggest […]
World’s End Trail in Hingham, MA
For every long trip we take, Dave makes an elaborate spreadsheet listing mileage and campground reservation numbers and all that sort of thing, and I make a no less elaborate but much less spreadsheet-y day-by-day itinerary document with all our tentative plans for each day. The number of categories on the itinerary has grown over […]
In Order to Form a More Perfect Duckling: Exploring the Freedom Trail with Kids and Teens
Why is Boston the setting for so many great kids’ books about birds? Well, I mean, at least two: Trumpet of the Swan and Make Way for Ducklings, both of which Abe has read over the past year or so. So before we could actually get to the Freedom Trail proper, we stopped to explore the Public Garden […]
Boats, Baleen, and Baby Seagulls: New Bedford, MA with Kids and Teens
Long time readers will perhaps remember the last time we attempted to learn about whales on a trip: the disastrous whale watch near Provincetown. Everyone was still far too scarred by that experience to attempt another whale watch a mere three years later, but we do still love whales….so we decided to visit the New Bedford Whaling […]
Normandy Farms in Foxborough, MA: A Campground Review
If you’re looking for an RV park near Boston, you’ll probably hear about two choices: one is Minuteman Campground, which we stayed at and liked a lot several years ago, and the other is Normandy Farms, which we stayed at the for the first time this summer: After I tell you about Normandy Farms, I’ll […]
The Worst Whale Watch
Travel dates: June 8-15, 2018 I’ve been trying to think of a moment–a beat, a vignette–to perfectly encapsulate the surreal hell that was our Cape Cod whale watch. Maybe the time when the increasingly nervous sounding naturalist whose job it was to tell us about both whales and safety over the loudspeaker finally gave up […]
Cape Cod, Vermont, and Acadia National Park: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #3
We left off as we were leaving New York and finishing up our tour of big east coast cities. From here on out, the biggest city we’re going to see is Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is….a wee bit smaller than NYC. RVing disasters! We still have the same disaster, which is that Ari’s HappiJac bed […]
Boston Minuteman Campground and Minute Man National Historical Park
travel dates: June 11-13, 2016 Let’s take a moment to reflect on my title up there and on the fact that the campground spells minuteman as all one word, whereas the NPS site splits it into two. Is there some deep significance to this? Is it like how the Wallace Stevens poem is called “The […]