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Visiting Kingston, Ontario + a Quick Rideau Acres Campground Review

April 12, 2025 by kokotg Leave a Comment

tour guide in soldier dress at Fort Henry

travel dates: June, 2025 Ah, Kingston! Birthplace of famed Canadian rock band, The Tragically Hip. Here, unnecessarily, are my three favorite Tragically Hip songs: Wheat Kings, Bobcaygeon, Poets. These are actually perhaps the only Tragically Hip songs I can even name. I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying to get more into the band, […]

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Elliston, Newfoundland: It’s Finally Time for Puffins!

October 18, 2024 by kokotg 2 Comments

puffin collecting nesting material

travel dates: July, 2023 Look! I put a puffin picture right at the top, so no one would have to wait for puffins for another second! Puffins are amazing. And the little town of Elliston in Newfoundland is one of the best places in the world to see them up close. Lots and lots and lots […]

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A Return to Ingalls Homestead and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant in De Smet, SD

April 21, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

kitten sleeping on its back

travel dates: July 2022 Our first visit to the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, SD in 2016 ranks right up there with our very best travel memories. The kids spent their time riding bikes across the prairie, running from barn to barn to cuddle with kittens, and just generally having the time of their lives. […]

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Hike Inn at Amicalola Falls State Park: A Kidless Weekend

October 12, 2023 by kokotg 4 Comments

Hike Inn in the fog at sunrise

travel dates: September 2023 More than once in the weeks leading up to our stay at the Hike Inn I described the experience to someone: “so you hike five miles through the woods and then you sleep in bunk beds and have a family style dinner with strangers…” only to be met with blank stares […]

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Top 9 Travel Memories of 2021

January 3, 2022 by kokotg Leave a Comment

kids in front of Rosa Parks bus

It’s time for one of my favorite posts to write every year! 2021 marked the return of the long distance trip for us after a pandemic year of sticking closer to home. We spent most of the summer exploring New England and some of the midwest, and our top travel memories of the year are […]

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Our First Five Years of RVing: Top 20 Travel Memories

January 2, 2021 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Every New Year’s Eve our whole family makes lists of favorite travel memories from the past year. It’s one of my very favorite family traditions. Then someone reads the lists out loud anonymously, and we all try to guess whose list is whose. And then I tally up which things got multiple votes, and I […]

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Our 2020 Travel Plans

January 7, 2020 by kokotg Leave a Comment

2019 was a great travel year, but it wasn’t a very RV-intensive travel year. 2020 should see us back to exploring the US and a bit of Canada with the trailer in tow, though. The working title of our big summer trip this year is “Less Baseball, More Lakes.” Originally it was supposed to involve […]

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Top 14 Travel Highlights of 2019

January 5, 2020 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Every New Year’s Eve we sit down with the kids, and everyone makes lists of our favorite travel-related memories from the past year. It’s become an elaborate ritual and one of our favorite traditions. Here’s how it goes down: everyone makes their own secret list, and then we enter them into a word document so […]

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Sugar Moon Farm: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids

September 2, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

The trip we actually took to Nova Scotia was not the first trip to Nova Scotia I planned. I’ve had Nova Scotia in my sights for a long time. And on one of those past aborted planning sprees, I came across Sugar Moon Farm’s website, immediately knew I wanted to visit, and filed it away in […]

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Back from Ireland/England!

July 3, 2019 by kokotg Leave a Comment

I meant to do quick update posts here and there while we were away, but….I didn’t. Alas. We just got back two days ago from our 3 1/2 week England and Ireland trip, and it was both awesome and more stressful than an average trip. Or maybe it was exactly as stressful as an average […]

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