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 […]
RV Camping at the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, South Dakota: So Many Kittens!
This is going to be a really great post, because I have so many kitten pictures: De Smet wasn’t really on the way from Sioux Falls to the Badlands, but it wasn’t that far out of the way, so when I learned awhile back that they have RV sites right there at the Ingalls Homestead, I […]
An Evening in Sioux Falls and Sioux Falls KOA Campground Review (Plus a little Sioux City)
Travel dates: June 3-4, 2017 It was dinnertime in Sioux Falls, SD, and we were running into an unexpected problem: none of the restaurants we could find seemed to want us there. I looked up a few different places online and noted that they had “no one under 21 allowed” policies for no discernible reason. […]
Two Days in St. Louis with Kids and Bikes: Four Free Things to Do
Our family’s relationship with St. Louis goes all the way back to spring of 2015, when we went there and to Mammoth Cave for spring break. And we had a fabulous time (and didn’t get to see nearly everything), so we decided on St. Louis for our first multi-day stop of our summer trip. We […]
Charlestowne Landing and a Carriage Tour: the last Charleston Post!
Travel dates: April 1-8, 2017 Well, I meant to get all the Charleston posts finished before we left for our big summer trip, but sometimes getting ready for one’s next trip gets in the way of blogging about one’s last trip. But here I am with one last post about stuff we did on our […]
Ships and Submarines in Charleston, SC: USS Yorktown, Hunley, et. al.
Travel dates: April 1-8, 2017 We visited Charleston for the first time a few years ago. It was a quick visit, and we went mostly to see Dave’s sister, Amy, and her husband and kids, who were in the area visiting family for the holidays. But one of the few things we got to see […]
McCleod Plantation in Charleston, SC with Kids
When our McCleod Plantation tour guide, Paul, tells us, “‘Plantation’ is really just a euphemism for ‘for profit slave labor camp,’” I know we’ve come to the right place. We try it out, driving around Charleston later in the trip: “Shadowmoss Slave Labor Camp Golf Club.” “Slave Labor Camp Oaks Apartments.” I can see why […]
A Quick Trip to Universal Orlando with our New 11 Year Old
This trip happened back in January, but I’ve put off writing about it until now, because I haven’t been sure quite how to approach it. We planned a short trip to Universal Studios in Orlando for Gus’s 11th birthday (you know, because that’s when you go to Hogwarts. If you’re a wizard). We’ve been to […]