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 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 […]
13 Things to Do with Kids on the Cabot Trail: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
If I could do one thing differently about our Nova Scotia trip, I’d stay overnight (or over two nights!) on the Cabot Trail. And I knew before the trip that we should. We considered it, but we had two dogs with us, so we’d either have had to board them or find dog friendly accommodations (because I […]
Halifax has a Lot of Museums: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Travel dates: June 29-July 4, 2018 In retrospect, it’s possible that we stuffed too many museums into our couple of days in Halifax….but I’m sort of of the belief that there’s no such thing as too many museums. But there might be such thing as not enough Public Gardens, though…which is probably the thing I was […]
A Day in Kejimkujik National Park: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Travel date: June 28, 2018 People mostly think of the coasts when they think of visiting Nova Scotia: the Bay of Fundy to the north, the port city of Halifax to the south, the winding, scenic drive along the shore on Cape Breton. And truth be told, we spend most of our three Nova Scotia […]
A Rainy Visit to Grand-prè National Historic Site: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
Travel dates: June 25, 2018 I love a good historic site (or even a mediocre historic site), but after you’ve done about a million of them in the US they can start to be a little repetitive. “Oh, look–a Civil War battle happened here, too.” I’m okay with repetition, but novelty is nice, too…and that’s what […]
Two Days in Acadia National Park with Kids: Not Quite Canada
Travel dates: June 18-21, 2018 Gearing up to write this post, I had feelings about it similar to the feelings I had about the actual stop on the trip: I kind of just want to get to Canada already! But I also know that Acadia is fabulous, and I want to make sure it gets […]
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 […]
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 […]