Our England/Ireland trip was the big event of our summer, but we also got a chance to visit one of our other dream destinations: Greensboro, North Carolina. Okay, if I’m being completely honest, we were really in Greensboro because our 16 year old, Milo, attended music camp at UNC-Greensboro. It’s about five hours from home, so it made […]
Two Days in Bath, England with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June 11-13, 2019 The city of Atlanta began life in 1837 as a stake driven into the ground, marking the endpoint of a proposed railroad connecting the southeast to the midwest. Homes and stores started to spring up around the stake, and the settlement was named Terminus, because that was exactly what it […]
Three Days in Cavendish, on Prince Edward Island with Kids and Teens: Bikes, Beaches, and Anne
travel dates: July 13-17, 2018 I was on the RV Atlas podcast awhile back talking about our stay on PEI, so you can head over there and listen for even MORE PEI info. I knew two things about Prince Edward Island when we started planning this trip: Anne of Green Gables is from there, and […]
Visiting Stonehenge with Kids and Teens (in which I did NOT crash the rental car!)
Travel date: June 11, 2019 Stonehenge was Dave’s sole must see on our entire England and Ireland trip. And so we saw it! It was a bit of a detour, but it fit in pretty nicely as a stop between London and Bath. We left London on Tuesday morning, took a million (or three) trains, […]
Nine Things to Do in London with Kids and Teens
When we were planning our London visit over the winter, I made a list of “must sees” and “maybe sees” in London. The finished lists had thirty three things on them collectively. Had we been staying in London for a month, this would have been fine, but since we had five days we had to […]
Pictou, Nova Scotia: A Brewery, a Campground, and a Heritage Quay
The inevitable has happened: it’s time for me to write about our last stop in Nova Scotia. And this makes me sad, because–have I mentioned?–I LOVE Nova Scotia. But all good things must come to an end, or so I’ve heard. Pictou was on our itinerary mostly because it’s close to the ferry to Prince Edward […]
National Maritime Museum: Exploring London with Kids
Travel date: June 6, 2019 The sad truth is, I’ll always remember the National Maritime Museum as the place where we were totally exhausted and overwhelmed, trying to figure out what had happened to the credit card Dave had just realized he’d lost somewhere on the trip over and how to get a replacement. The […]
Visiting the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois with Kids
We spent our spring break this year traveling to that iconic early April destination of….Minnesota. After spending one year in Charleston and the next in coastal Georgia, we were just tired of all that lovely beach weather and ready to break out our coats and see some snow for spring break! Or maybe it’s more […]
Miners Museum and Glace Bay: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Travel date: July 10, 2018 Approximately three minutes in to our coal mine tour at the Miners’ Museum in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, I started to feel a bit panicky. I knew that the ceiling in the mine started out low and only got lower, so that even short adult people like me would have […]
The Fortress of Louisbourg: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Looking for a tourist attraction where your kid can learn how to gut a cod? Look no further than the Fortress of Louisbourg! The Fortress of Louisbourg is a National Historic Site with a re-creation of an 18th century French settlement. After our somewhat underwhelming experience with a Canadian living history site at Port Royal, […]