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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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Filed Under: 2024 Canadian Cities Trip, Canada, museums and attractions, Ontario

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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Filed Under: 2022 Mountains, museums and attractions, national parks

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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A Day in Brooklyn with Kids and Teens: The New York Transit Museum and a Rather Famous Bridge

September 19, 2023 by kokotg 1 Comment

Abe and Milo on the Brooklyn Bridge

Travel dates: June, 2022 Milo turned 20 (!) just before we left for this trip, so I guess I should really call this post “A Day in Brooklyn with Kids, Teens, Young Adults, and Middle-aged People.” But I’m not gonna. Anyway. We had a lot of ideas about what to do with our days in New […]

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A Smoky Stay at Liberty Harbor RV Park in Jersey City: Campground Review

September 12, 2023 by kokotg Leave a Comment

liberty harbor rv park at night

travel dates: June, 2023 Anyone planning an RV trip to New York City will have to confront that age old dilemma: stay close to the city in the expensive parking lot that is Liberty Harbor RV Park–right across the water from Manhattan–or stay at a campground campground and deal with a long commute into the city. A […]

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Filed Under: 2023 Newfoundland Trip, Campground Reviews, museums and attractions, national parks, new york

Three Days in Missoula, Montana with Kids and Teens

August 1, 2023 by kokotg Leave a Comment

long grass on l trail

Travel dates: July, 2022 We love a good college town, and Missoula is an excellent college town. We spent three days there last July, which felt like a good amount of time to see a lot of the city. Missoula offers a great blend of urban and outdoorsy stuff to do, something Montana in general excels at. […]

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Butte, Montana with Kids and Teens: Superfun and Superfund (and the Butte KOA)

April 23, 2023 by kokotg 2 Comments

kids in front of Berkeley Pit

travel dates: July, 2022 I couldn’t resist the Superfund wordplay in the title up there. I tried. It’s true that we really enjoyed Butte, though, more than we thought we would, even though we didn’t get to do any of things we’d planned to do there. Superfund is a program established by Congress in 1980 […]

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Bozeman, Montana with Kids and Teens (and farewell to the Inn on the Gallatin)

April 14, 2023 by kokotg Leave a Comment

going down the M trail in Bozeman

travel dates: June, 2022 Like with so many drives during our summer of mountains, I was a little worried about the one that would take us from Brigham City, Utah to Bozeman, Montana. And as with all of the drives, I needn’t have worried. With the help of the Mountain Driving Directory and a good […]

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