travel dates: March and April, 2025 That’s right: there’s a lot going on in this post! Because we keep going to Dollywood. So since our last Dollywood check-in, Abe and I have been back for two more trips–one with Ari and Abby over their spring break and then again with Dave during his spring break. The trip […]
Our Dollywood Year Begins
Travel dates: January, 2025 I could take you through the twisted path of thoughts, plans, and questionable math that ended with us sitting at a computer in our Airbnb in New Hampshire over Thanksgiving buying Dollywood season passes. But it would not be that interesting. So instead I will just tell you that Dave, Abe, […]
Tom Sawyer’s RV Park in West Memphis: A Campground Review
We had been itching to stay at Tom Sawyer’s RV Park in West Memphis, Arkansas (just across the river from Memphis, TN) for a long time. We had, in fact, booked two stays there in the past, both of which had to be canceled for assorted reasons. You have to call to book, and apparently […]
Two Days in Memphis with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June, 2022 As I write these first few posts about our summer 2022 trip, I’m writing not only a travelogue, but also a serialized short story about our assorted van woes. Which is why this post is not called THREE days in Memphis with Kids and Teens. We were in Memphis for three days, […]
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 […]
Graceland : College Visit Road Trip Fun
Real time update here before we return to summer in New England: some of you will remember the soft spot in the trailer floor that we discovered just before leaving for our summer trip (like the day before). We found no obvious cause for it while we were gone, but a few days of heavy […]
Seven Points Campground near Nashville, TN: Campground Review
Travel dates: Sunday, May 28-Monday, May 29, 2017 One thing we’ve noted about lodging prices in Nashville is that they’re completely nuts. I remember this from our weekend trip there in fall of 2015, and we found it again when we started looking for a place to stay this summer. I’ve heard good things about […]
Holiday Travel Park in Chattanooga, TN: Campground Review
Travel dates: May 27-28, 2017 Chattanooga is only a couple of hours from our house, and there’s tons and tons to do there, so we go pretty frequently. Holiday Travel Park is, in fact, the third Chattanooga RV park we’ve stayed at (you can read my review of Raccoon Mountain here and my post about […]
Raccoon Mountain in Chattanooga, TN: Campground Review
Travel dates: Saturday, November 19-Sunday, November 20 We spent much of our very busy fall (full of the kids doing a play and Dave finishing his master’s) trying desperately to fit in a weekend trip and failing miserably. We booked or thought about booking weekend after weekend, but things kept popping up to keep us […]
Great Smoky Mountains Trip, Part 2: Outside the Park
A great feature of a trip to the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, TN area is that it has a little bit of everything: there’s scenic beauty and hiking and general outdoorsiness if you’re into that, or there are overpriced cheesy tourist traps if that’s more your speed. Or there is the third way, the way of perhaps […]