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 […]
Skidaway Revisited, Savannah History Museum, and the Jepson Center: Our Triumphant Return to Savannah
Travel dates: December 26-27, 2016 For more about Savannah, you can check out my post on my other blog about exploring the architecture and design side of the city. Or you can read my posts about last year’s visit here, here, and here. I’m not sure our return to Savannah was really all that triumphant, […]
A Day at Monticello
Travel date: June 17, 2016 At Monticello, they like to talk a lot about “the paradox of Jefferson,” which is to say, how could the guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence, including that bit about how all men are created equal, own slaves? I give the people running things at Monticello a lot of […]
Visiting Gettysburg National Military Park with Kids
Travel dates: June 14-16, 2016 Honestly? Battles kind of bore me. I can’t keep the details straight in my mind. I get bogged down in the logistics and weighed down by all the….death and stuff. I love history, but I’m more of a fan of the how ordinary people lived parts. Or the details of […]
Exploring near Travelers Rest, SC: Table Rock State Park and Carl Sandburg’s Home. And Goats.
After spending Saturday exploring Greenville, we decided to spend our second and last full day of Labor Day weekend checking out some other sites in the Travelers Rest area. As I mentioned in my review of the Travelers Rest KOA, we had four different state parks to choose from within 30 minutes of the campground: […]
A Day in Greenville, SC with Kids
A couple of days ago, I took Abe to the Children’s Museum of Atlanta for the first time (I’d been with the older kids, but this was Abe’s first visit). I was driving through the most touristy part of downtown, past the Georgia Aquarium, and the World of Coke, and Centennial Olympic Park, looking for […]
One Night in Saugerties, NY: Saugerties Lighthouse and Saugerties KOA
Travel dates: June 13-14, 2016 My grandfather grew up in Saugerties. When I told my mom we were going to be stopping there, she said I should go by and see the house he lived in. But she didn’t know the address, so it would have required some research and/or calls to extended family, and […]
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 […]
Great Smoky Mountains Trip, Part 2: Outside the Park
A great feature of a trip to the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, TN area is that it has a little bit of everything: there’s scenic beauty and hiking and general outdoorsiness if you’re into that, or there are overpriced cheesy tourist traps if that’s more your speed. Or there is the third way, the way of perhaps […]
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 […]