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 […]
A Smoky Stay at Liberty Harbor RV Park in Jersey City: Campground Review
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 […]
Three Days in Missoula, Montana with Kids and Teens
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. […]
Butte, Montana with Kids and Teens: Superfun and Superfund (and the Butte KOA)
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 […]
Bozeman, Montana with Kids and Teens (and farewell to the Inn on the Gallatin)
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 […]
Two Days in Chicago with Kids and Teens or, In the Midwest it’s Always Still Snowing in April
travel dates: April 2022 Taking a quick break from last summer’s blog posts for a belated recap of last spring’s spring break trip to Chicago–everyone’s favorite spring break destination. Well. Not really. But we had a few different midwestern colleges we needed go get to so that our then senior, Milo, could pick one of them […]
Visiting Spiral Jetty and Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah (in which we sacrifice a hubcap for art)
travel dates: June, 2022 In 1970, artist Robert Smithson hired a crew to haul nearly 7000 tons of rock to the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah and arrange it into a 1500 foot long spiral jutting counterclockwise into the lake. The sculpture is stunning to look at, and it has a […]
Visiting Durango, CO with Kids and Teens
We had just spent a week suffering through near record high summer temperatures in Santa Fe, NM, so we were excited for the change when Durango, CO greeted us with…a dangerous hailstorm. I’m just kidding. It wasn’t actually nice. We had to pull over at one point, just a few minutes outside of town, because […]
Bandelier National Monument and Los Alamos with Kids and Teens
Abe can be a nervous kid, particularly when heights are involved. I understand this, because I can be a nervous grown-up under the same circumstances. But I’m happy to report that, after some initial trepidation, both Abe and I conquered our fears at Bandelier National Monument and climbed the very scary ladders into the cavate […]
Things to Do in Santa Fe, New Mexico with Kids and Teens: City of Many Museums
Santa Fe, New Mexico sits at over 7000 feet in elevation, keeping its summer temperatures more reasonable than the ones associated with other cities in the southwest. The average high in June is in the low 80s, which is one of the major reasons it earned a spot on our summer itinerary. I live in […]