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Visiting Boldt Castle: A Brief Return to the US and the Gilded Age

May 2, 2025 by kokotg 2 Comments

old sign in upper level room at Boldt Castle

travel dates: June, 2024 I’ve been to a lot of house museums in my time. Like…so many. Every house has a story to tell. But, really, every house has lots of stories it could tell (this is true of most things in the world. The world is a bit of a sprawling mess, and people are the […]

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Visiting Kingston, Ontario + a Quick Rideau Acres Campground Review

April 12, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

tour guide in soldier dress at Fort Henry

travel dates: June, 2025 Ah, Kingston! Birthplace of famed Canadian rock band, The Tragically Hip. Here, unnecessarily, are my three favorite Tragically Hip songs: Wheat Kings, Bobcaygeon, Poets. These are actually perhaps the only Tragically Hip songs I can even name. I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying to get more into the band, […]

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Two Days in Toronto with Kids and Teens

March 10, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

downtown Toronto scene with skyscrapers and a bus

travel dates: June, 2024 By the end of our first day in Toronto, I’d had an epiphany: the second “t” in Toronto is silent. “Just like Atlanta!” I thought. Also like Atlanta, Toronto can feel sort of…generic big city-esque. There are tall buildings, and people hurrying around doing business things, and they’re not always as […]

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Hamilton, Ontario with Kids and Teens: HMCS Haida and the Royal Botanical Gardens

February 23, 2025 by kokotg 2 Comments

Abe pretending to steer ship

travel dates: June 2024 I didn’t know anything about Hamilton, Ontario before we started planning our Canadian cities trip, but I started looking into it when I realized that Bronte Creek Provincial Park , our campground of choice for exploring Toronto, was actually closer to Hamilton than to Toronto itself. And it was a Canadian […]

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Don’t Forget Twillingate (Like I Did. Sorry, Twillingate!) RVing Newfoundland for One More Post

February 7, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Dave and boat builder at wooden boat building museum

travel dates: July 2023 Remember when I dramatically announced that I was writing my very last Newfoundland post? Yeah, so then I realized that I totally skipped poor Twillingate. We went to Twillingate right after Fogo Island, but apparently I was so eager to talk about St. John’s that I just completely forgot to blog about it. […]

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Niagara Falls: Canada Edition

November 17, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Niagara Falls at night from Canadian side

travel dates: June, 2024 We spent a couple of days in Niagara Falls in 2021, but that was back when Canada was still closed, so we were restricted to gazing longingly across the water from the US at the bright lights of the considerably more touristy Canadian side of things. So we were excited that […]

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Four Days on Newfoundland’s Bonavista Peninsula: Beyond Puffins. RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens

November 4, 2024 by kokotg 2 Comments

Cape Bonavista Lighthouse

travel dates: July 2023 The Bonavista Peninsula, on Newfoundland’s east coast, seems to fly a bit under the radar, tourism-wise, compared to some of its flashier counterparts. It has plenty of stunning ocean views, but lacks the dramatic peaks of Gros Morne. It doesn’t have the “getaway for the rich and famous” vibe that Fogo […]

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15 Things to Do in St. John’s, Newfoundland with Kids and Teens (and Parents and Grandparents)

September 14, 2024 by kokotg 2 Comments

Newfoundland and Labrador dog statues with kids

travel dates: July, 2023 This is going to be a long one! “Go east and then keep on going. You’ll eventually find the oldest city in North America,” tweeted the Newfoundland and Labrador tourism account back in 2018. They meant St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital and its biggest city by far (it’s nine times […]

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Three Days in Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Medora, North Dakota

February 20, 2024 by kokotg 4 Comments

Abe climbing on a cannonball concretion

travel dates: July 2022 I talked about Theodore Roosevelt National Park awhile ago on the RV Atlas Podcast, if you’d care to listen.  You can’t spend much time in Theodore Roosevelt National Park without hearing someone or other invoke the 26th president’s thoughts on North Dakota: “I have always said I never would have been […]

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Going Underground in Havre, MT: Havre Beneath the Streets Tour

January 5, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

saloon at havre beneath the streets

travel dates July 2022 Our original plan called for us to spend a couple of nights in Great Falls after leaving Glacier, check out Lewis and Clark stuff and all that. But I got very nervous looking at a map of our route east after Great Falls, which included a long stretch on “the Loneliest […]

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