Travel dates: November 16-21, 2018 Have I mentioned that I’ve become a bit of a college visit junkie? And to think I get to do this three more times! Our college road trips this year have given Ari and me a chance to see some cool things and spend some one on one time together […]
A Day in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia with Kids
I can’t remember exactly how the little town of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, right on the Bay of Fundy, made it onto our Atlantic Canada itinerary, but I’m glad it did. We loved the town, and it served as a perfect introduction to Nova Scotia for us. We spent three nights here, so we had two […]
Graceland : College Visit Road Trip Fun
Real time update here before we return to summer in New England: some of you will remember the soft spot in the trailer floor that we discovered just before leaving for our summer trip (like the day before). We found no obvious cause for it while we were gone, but a few days of heavy […]
A Day in Vermont: Quechee Gorge and Vermont’s Only National Park
Travel date: June 16, 2018 We left off with our extended family scattered all over New England: Dave, his mom, and the younger kids were still on Cape Cod, and Ari, Dave’s dad, and I were in western Mass visiting Amherst and Williams colleges. But we were all reunited in Quechee, Vermont, where we made […]
Visiting the Statue of Liberty’s Crown (and Ellis Island)
Visiting the Statue of Liberty’s Crown was one of the most highly anticipated parts of our trip. We’d taken the older kids to the Statue a few years earlier, but we’re very big fans and were excited to make another trip and introduce Abe to her. So adding on crown tickets as something new and […]
Art, Math, and Singing Waiters: One Day in NYC with Kids
We continued our whirlwind tour of east coast cities with a single day in Manhattan (we were at Croton Point Park for 4 nights, but we also spent one day north of the park and one day visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island). Perhaps this means we should have devoted the time to […]
Valley Forge with Kids: June is Fickle
We had two full days in the Philadelphia area, and we had to decide whether to spend day two in the city again (you can read about day one here) or to venture farther out and go somewhere we’d never been before, like, for example, Valley Forge. We had plans to meet up that day […]
History, Heat, and Ice Cream: A Day in Philadelphia with Kids
Travel date: June 2, 2018 We’ve been to Philadelphia several times now, and it seems like something always pops up to keep us from having the perfect day there. Like the time we were walking back to our car after visiting the Franklin Institute and the skies suddenly opened up with the most apocalyptic rainstorm we’ve […]
Two Days in Washington, DC with Kids: National Museum of African American History and Culture + More
Travel dates: May 30-31, 2018 I thought of the first part of our summer trip as a sampling of east coast cities. We sort of raced up the coast, stopping for just a couple of days in cities that we could easily have spent a week in. But Nova Scotia was calling. And the nice […]
First Week in Nova Scotia: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #4
Travel dates: June 21-29, 2018 We love Nova Scotia! I’m so in love with Atlantic Canada, in fact, that I want to start planning a trip to Newfoundland for next summer. But Dave thinks we should go west again instead. Boo. I guess there’s stuff worth seeing in other places, too. RVing disasters: We continue to have […]