Travel dates: June 25-27, 2017 First a quick shout out to Vale Trails RV Park, our overnight stop on the way from Arco to Bend. The owners were super friendly (they loaned us a can opener and gave us chips and salsa!) and the campground was nothing special, but it was clean and safe and […]
Visiting the Museum of Clean in Pocatello, ID
Travel date: June 23, 2017 Way back when we first started planning our cross-country trip, we put two quirky-sounding museums in Idaho on our tentative itinerary: the Idaho Potato Museum and the Museum of Clean. I’m not kidding when I say that my kids were as excited about the Museum of Clean as they were […]
Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park and West Yellowstone, MT: Campground Review and MORE!
Travel dates: June 17-21, 2017 We stayed in a lot of fairly rustic campgrounds last summer, which is not something we mind….but the tidy, pristinely landscaped Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park, with its orderly grid of well-kept campsites was a welcome mid-trip oasis. We loved the town of West Yellowstone itself, too: compact and walkable and […]
Jimmy Carter, More Jimmy Carter, and a Canyon: A South Georgia Weekend (also there was beer)
travel dates: November 18-20, 2017 It was the night before we were all going to go to Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school class, and I was fretting. I’d never been in the same room with a real, live president before. What would we say? What were we supposed to do? Would the Secret Service be suspicious […]
Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY: A Shortish Visit with Kids
Travel date: June 14, 2017 If you have a day to spend in Cody, WY, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West can easily fill it for you (and then some). The most common description of this place is that it is “Smithsonian level.” I can vouch for that, adding that it comes without the […]
Wind Cave National Park and the Mammoth Site with Kids: Black Hills South
travel dates: June 11, 2017 Wind Cave National Park Our family had just declared Ranger Reed from Mount Rushmore our favorite Ranger ever, but just a few days later we found ourselves handing off the title to Ranger Earl at Wind Cave National Park. Sorry Ranger Reed. There’s a lot of competition out there in […]
Things to Do with Kids in and around Gainesville, GA
travel dates: October 6-9, 2017 As I mentioned in my campground review of Don Carter State Park, some bad weather cut our trip to the Gainesville area down to one full day from a planned two, so we didn’t get to everything on our list. But we did fit a good bit into our one day […]
Visiting Mount Rushmore with Kids: More Black Hills
Travel dates: June 9-11, 2017 It’s impossible to see Mount Rushmore for the first time. It’s one of the most iconic images in the world, and most of us have had it burned into our brains for as long as we can remember. But if you make the trip to the Black Hills of South […]
Dahlonega and Amicalola Falls State Park: a Day in the North Georgia Mountains
A terrible thing happened to us a few weeks ago: we had to cancel our planned Labor Day trip to the Smoky Mountains because our trailer was still in the shop. (Now it’s home! We headed out with it this weekend!) Terrible might be an overstatement, but we were disappointed. So we decided to devote one day of […]
The Badlands with Kids: National Park or World’s Best Playground?
At Yellowstone, everything will kill you; you can’t walk 20 yards without reading a sign about how you’re going to be eaten by a bear or gored by a bison or boiled alive in a mudpot. At Grand Teton, you can admire the majestic, snow capped mountains….but you can’t actually get to the top of […]