travel dates: June, 2024 I’ve been to a lot of house museums in my time. Like…so many. Every house has a story to tell. But, really, every house has lots of stories it could tell (this is true of most things in the world. The world is a bit of a sprawling mess, and people are the […]
A Day in Brooklyn with Kids and Teens: The New York Transit Museum and a Rather Famous Bridge
Travel dates: June, 2022 Milo turned 20 (!) just before we left for this trip, so I guess I should really call this post “A Day in Brooklyn with Kids, Teens, Young Adults, and Middle-aged People.” But I’m not gonna. Anyway. We had a lot of ideas about what to do with our days in New […]
A Smoky Stay at Liberty Harbor RV Park in Jersey City: Campground Review
travel dates: June, 2023 Anyone planning an RV trip to New York City will have to confront that age old dilemma: stay close to the city in the expensive parking lot that is Liberty Harbor RV Park–right across the water from Manhattan–or stay at a campground campground and deal with a long commute into the city. A […]
Two Days in Niagara Falls with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: July 2021 For the National Park Service, Niagara Falls has long been a cautionary tale: we need to protect America’s natural wonders quick, before they all go the way of Niagara Falls–commercialized and built up and surrounded by tourist traps! And it’s true. That’s what Niagara Falls is like, and it would be nicer if […]
Four Mile Creek State Park near Niagara Falls: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2021 I talked about this campground awhile back on the RV Atlas podcast: you can listen to that episode here We stayed at some really nice resort type campgrounds on this trip and very much enjoyed them. There are some resort type campgrounds in the Niagara Falls area that have wonderful reviews and would […]
Two Days in the Finger Lakes with Kids and Teens: Seneca Falls and Watkins Glen State Park
Travel dates: July, 2021 There were two things we wanted to make sure to see while we were in New York’s Finger Lakes region last summer, one of them a little more…obvious than the other. We knew we wanted to go to Watkins Glen State Park, for this was the summer of hiking through gorges. […]
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 […]
Croton Point Park: RV Camping Near NYC
Travel dates: June 4-9, 2018 If you’re looking into your RV-friendly campground options close to New York City, the first place you’ll hear about is Liberty Harbor, just across the river in Jersey City. After that, people mention Black Bear Campground, 60 miles north of Manhattan, and a couple of KOAs that are even farther […]
One Night in Saugerties, NY: Saugerties Lighthouse and Saugerties KOA
Travel dates: June 13-14, 2016 My grandfather grew up in Saugerties. When I told my mom we were going to be stopping there, she said I should go by and see the house he lived in. But she didn’t know the address, so it would have required some research and/or calls to extended family, and […]