travel dates: July 2021 Despite fond childhood memories of watching WKRP in Cincinnati in syndication, I had never spent any time in Cincinnati aside from passing through on the interstate. So when we found ourselves passing through again on our way home from Detroit, we decided to stop for a couple of days and see […]
Visiting Hot Springs National Park with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June, 2022 What Hot Springs National Park lacks in wide open spaces and scenic beauty, it makes up for in really hot water. Just kidding, Hot Springs: you are so much more than just hot water! Hot Springs is an unusual National Park, though, with its urban setting and focus on human history over natural […]
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 […]
Boats, Baleen, and Baby Seagulls: New Bedford, MA with Kids and Teens
Long time readers will perhaps remember the last time we attempted to learn about whales on a trip: the disastrous whale watch near Provincetown. Everyone was still far too scarred by that experience to attempt another whale watch a mere three years later, but we do still love whales….so we decided to visit the New Bedford Whaling […]
A Smoky Mountain Pandemic: Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Townsend, TN
Right now we’re supposed to be at Wayne County Fairgrounds outside of Detroit, spending our last night in Michigan before starting to head south. Back when we finally decided to cancel our big Michigan trip after weeks of going back and forth, we immediately booked a couple of shorter trips closer to home to give […]
Exploring Killarney National Park with Kids and Teens, Part One: Ruins and Farms
When we checked in to our hotel in Killarney, the woman at reception asked where we were coming from and, when we told her Dublin, said, “oh, you HAVE come a long way!” It is less than 200 miles from Dublin to Killarney….about a three and a half hour drive. The perception of scale is […]
A Weekend in Macon, Georgia with Kids and Teens
When we’re visiting a new place, I like to spend a lot of time online (some would say too much) finding the very best things to do there, with an emphasis, if possible, on hidden gem type things that might not make the TripAdvisor top 10. And this is how the 64 foot concrete slide in […]
Cavendish Campground at Prince Edward Island National Park: A Review
Travel dates: July 13-17, 2018 (I messed up and forgot to write this back when I was covering PEI! Read about everything else we did in Cavendish here) It was the best of campgrounds; it was the worst of campgrounds… Our stay at Cavendish Campground in Prince Edward Island National Park started off on a very bad note: […]
Things to Do in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, NC with Kids and Teens
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 […]
Fundy National Park and Hopewell Rocks with Kids and Teens
travel dates: July 17-19, 2018 Many years ago, I heard of the Bay of Fundy for the first time. A co-worker of Dave’s at the Museum of Science in Boston went there for some kind of research trip, and he told me about it and about the Really Impressive Tides. So I had that information […]