2024 was a big year of transitions for us, as August left for college, Ari left for grad school (after a year back home working post-college graduation) and we went down to only three people at home full time. Travel-wise, we had only two kids on the big summer trip with us most of the […]
2024 Travel Plans! Back to Canada
A quick post about our 2024 travel plans, which are, as is often the case in recent years, still on the tentative side. Some of them anyway. We have plans to see the solar eclipse, complete with an Airbnb that we booked over a year in advance. We’ve been looking forward to it ever since […]
Visiting Newfoundland: The Best Trip You’ll Ever Take to Somewhere Most Americans Can’t Find on a Map
Scroll to the bottom for links to every Newfoundland post! I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that Newfoundland was our favorite trip ever (or at least yet). There are a lot of places I haven’t been–it’s true–but I have seen some pretty amazing places and covered the lower 48 and Atlantic Canada pretty well over the […]
Taking the Ferry to Newfoundland (and Getting to the Ferry)
Travel dates: June 2023 If you want the audio version of a lot of this information, I talked ferry on the RV Atlas podcast a few weeks ago, and you can give it a listen here Back in 2019, we took a ferry from Wales to Ireland, and, despite my general aversion to boats (and […]
2023 Travel Plans: Northward! (and Eastward)
Did you all know that St. John’s, Newfoundland is at the same latitude at Paris? We can’t take our trailer to Paris, though, so…Newfoundland? You’re finally up! Knock wood. We’ve been attempting to make it to Newfoundland for forever it seems, but something or other has always come along and forced us to put it off another […]
2022 Travel Plans: Mountains, Mountains, and More Mountains
Last year my post was called “2021 Travel Plans (LOL)” because, you know…pandemics and planning and all that. So I’m happy to report that most of our planned travel actually happened in 2021. I did have a couple of sad moments reading back through that post and remembering the things that didn’t happen–like how we didn’t get to […]
8 Great Travel Books for Kids
Hi–we haven’t been anywhere lately! There’s a pandemic and anyway it’s winter, so we’ve been staying home. And staying home. And staying home. I’m trying to be hopeful without jinxing it that things are moving in the right direction and that we’ll have an awesome summer full of travel. But in the meantime, we read […]
2021 Travel Plans (LOL)
Plans?! I know, right? We saw how well that went last year. Oddly, though, Covid has caused us to make MORE plans rather than less for this year. We have one set of summer plans for if the Canadian border is open and one for if it’s not. The one for if it’s not takes us through […]
Rail and Sail from Britain to Ireland with Kids: A Tale of Many Trains
Travel date: June 16, 2019 There were already five separate flights in our UK/Ireland trip, just to get us there and back home again. So when it came time to decide how to get from our last UK stop in Bakewell to Dublin, I lobbied hard for taking the ferry instead of yet another plane. […]
Planning a First Trip to the UK with Kids and Teens: Our 10 Day Itinerary
Before I get into recapping all the stuff we did in England on our trip, I want to talk a bit about the planning process and what worked and didn’t work well for us. This was our first trip overseas as a family, and I certainly don’t claim to be an expert, but I always […]