Travel dates: July 2021 For the National Park Service, Niagara Falls has long been a cautionary tale: we need to protect America’s natural wonders quick, before they all go the way of Niagara Falls–commercialized and built up and surrounded by tourist traps! And it’s true. That’s what Niagara Falls is like, and it would be nicer if […]
Two Days in the Finger Lakes with Kids and Teens: Seneca Falls and Watkins Glen State Park
Travel dates: July, 2021 There were two things we wanted to make sure to see while we were in New York’s Finger Lakes region last summer, one of them a little more…obvious than the other. We knew we wanted to go to Watkins Glen State Park, for this was the summer of hiking through gorges. […]
Visiting Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY
travel dates: July, 2021 A quick post today about Opus 40, a cool place we went that doesn’t really fit in anywhere as part of a longer post. We were in the area to tour Bard College with Milo, our current senior, and we had just enough time to fit in a visit to Opus […]
More Vermont: The Shelburne Museum and Shelburne Farms with Kids and Teens
I start a fair number of descriptions of places we’ve been with words to the effect of, “we didn’t really know what to expect here…” There is good reason why I feel I need to point out when I don’t know what to expect: I usually do know more or less exactly what to expect, because I’m […]
5 Things to Do in Burlington, VT with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: July, 2021 I had very high hopes for Burlington, and I was pretty sure it was going to live up to them on our first night there, when we walked down to the beach at Lake Champlain from our campsite and then meandered along the shore as the sun set. Burlington very much […]
Castle in the Clouds in New Hampshire’s Lake District with Kids and Teens
travel date: June, 2021 We only went to Castle in the Clouds because I spilled wine on my MacBook, but it turned out to be one of our favorite stops of the whole trip (#4 on our top travel memories of the year). I don’t know that I’d exactly say that it made it worth spilling wine […]
Santa’s Village in Jefferson, NH: World’s Most Charming Theme Park
Travel dates: July 2021 When you’re only going to have one day of good weather in the White Mountains, you go see Santa. Anyway, that’s what we decided when we visited New Hampshire last summer, and it was a great call. Santa’s Village is utterly charming, not to mention clean and well run. And fun […]
3 Days on New Hampshire’s Seacoast with Kids and Teens
New Hampshire has only 18 miles of coastline, but it doesn’t waste an inch of it, efficiently packing in a handful of state parks, the historic small city of Portsmouth, and the touristy Hampton Beach, with its boardwalk, live music, and crowds. But for most people, the first thing that comes to mind about the […]
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 […]
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 […]