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Hagan-Stone Park near Greensboro, NC: Campground Review

December 22, 2016 by kokotg 2 Comments

It’s finally here: the very last post about our big summer trip! I mean, except I would like to do a kind of overview of our first long RV trip–lessons learned, things we’d do differently, things that worked well, and all that kind of thing. But Greensboro, NC was our last stop of the trip, […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, north carolina, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: brewery, campground reviews, greensboro, north carolina, summer

Visiting Gettysburg National Military Park with Kids

November 14, 2016 by kokotg 6 Comments

Travel dates: June 14-16, 2016 Honestly? Battles kind of bore me. I can’t keep the details straight in my mind. I get bogged down in the logistics and weighed down by all the….death and stuff. I love history, but I’m more of a fan of the how ordinary people lived parts. Or the details of […]

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Filed Under: museums and attractions, pennsylvania, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: gettysburg, history, national parks, pennsylvania

One Night in Saugerties, NY: Saugerties Lighthouse and Saugerties KOA

September 28, 2016 by kokotg Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, museums and attractions, new york, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: bookstore, campground reviews, lighthouse, new york

Boston Minuteman Campground and Minute Man National Historical Park

September 24, 2016 by kokotg 2 Comments

travel dates: June 11-13, 2016 Let’s take a moment to reflect on my title up there and on the fact that the campground spells minuteman as all one word, whereas the NPS site splits it into two. Is there some deep significance to this? Is it like how the Wallace Stevens poem is called “The […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, massachusetts, museums and attractions, national parks, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: campground reviews, junior ranger, massachusetts, museums, national parks, nps

The Breakwater in Provincetown + Old Harbor Life Saving Station + Highland Light: More Cape Cod

August 23, 2016 by kokotg 4 Comments

Back when I was in grad school, Dave and I and a few friends randomly decided to go to Provincetown, MA one weekend….in January. There was still snow on the ground from a recent storm, but the actual days we were there were unseasonably warm. This was back before my obsessive planning phase, and one […]

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Filed Under: hiking, massachusetts, museums and attractions, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: beach, cape cod, hiking, lighthouse, massachusetts, national parks, nps

Cape Cod with Kids: Eastham, MA and Cape Cod National Seashore

August 17, 2016 by kokotg 2 Comments

Even though we live in the Southeast, the vast majority of my kids’ beach time has been spent on Cape Cod and on the west coast. They don’t really have much of a grasp of the idea that the ocean can be warm. We compound the problem by often visiting the Cape in June, when […]

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Arriving in Cape Cod: Afternoon in Falmouth

August 6, 2016 by kokotg 4 Comments

Dave’s grandparents bought a house on Cape Cod, in Falmouth Heights, back in the early 60s when beach houses on Cape Cod cost approximately 10 cents. Or, anyway, some amount that made them within reach for middle and working class families. So Dave grew up spending time there almost every summer, and I joined him […]

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A Day at Mystic Seaport

July 31, 2016 by kokotg 6 Comments

We came pretty close to skipping Mystic Seaport when we were itinerary planning. We just went to Williamsburg, VA a couple of of years ago, and this seemed like pretty much the same thing, only with more boats. It’s expensive. Maybe we should just skip it and get to Cape Cod a day earlier instead. […]

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Lake-in-Wood Campground in Narvon, PA: RVFTA Rally and a Day in Philadelphia

July 3, 2016 by kokotg 6 Comments

I’m not sure you’d really call us rally people. If you were going to call us something. Other things would probably come to mind first. But when the dates and location for the RV Family Travel Atlas spring rally were announced last year right around the same time we were deciding that we really and […]

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Two Days in Shenandoah National Park

June 26, 2016 by kokotg 5 Comments

When I was in college, my roommate Suzanne and I took a road trip up to Washington, DC and back. My memory on this might be completely wrong, but I feel like this involved driving the entire length of the Blue Ridge Parkway AND Skyline Drive. In the Chevy Cavalier I’d inherited from my grandmother, […]

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Filed Under: 52 Hike Challenge, hiking, national parks, summer 2016 east coast trip, virginia Tagged With: hiking, national parks, shenandoah, virginia

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