When we’re visiting a new place, I like to spend a lot of time online (some would say too much) finding the very best things to do there, with an emphasis, if possible, on hidden gem type things that might not make the TripAdvisor top 10. And this is how the 64 foot concrete slide in […]
Cavendish Campground at Prince Edward Island National Park: A Review
Travel dates: July 13-17, 2018 (I messed up and forgot to write this back when I was covering PEI! Read about everything else we did in Cavendish here) It was the best of campgrounds; it was the worst of campgrounds… Our stay at Cavendish Campground in Prince Edward Island National Park started off on a very bad note: […]
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. […]
Bakewell and the Peak District: Exploring England with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June 13-16, 2019 At some point or another in the planning stage of our England trip, we considered just about everywhere in the country as a potential third stop after London and Bath. We eventually landed on Bakewell in the Peak District through some combination of intention, luck, and randomness. We wanted something […]
Things to Do in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, NC with Kids and Teens
Our England/Ireland trip was the big event of our summer, but we also got a chance to visit one of our other dream destinations: Greensboro, North Carolina. Okay, if I’m being completely honest, we were really in Greensboro because our 16 year old, Milo, attended music camp at UNC-Greensboro. It’s about five hours from home, so it made […]
Fundy National Park and Hopewell Rocks with Kids and Teens
travel dates: July 17-19, 2018 Many years ago, I heard of the Bay of Fundy for the first time. A co-worker of Dave’s at the Museum of Science in Boston went there for some kind of research trip, and he told me about it and about the Really Impressive Tides. So I had that information […]
Two Days in Bath, England with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June 11-13, 2019 The city of Atlanta began life in 1837 as a stake driven into the ground, marking the endpoint of a proposed railroad connecting the southeast to the midwest. Homes and stores started to spring up around the stake, and the settlement was named Terminus, because that was exactly what it […]
Three Days in Cavendish, on Prince Edward Island with Kids and Teens: Bikes, Beaches, and Anne
travel dates: July 13-17, 2018 I was on the RV Atlas podcast awhile back talking about our stay on PEI, so you can head over there and listen for even MORE PEI info. I knew two things about Prince Edward Island when we started planning this trip: Anne of Green Gables is from there, and […]
Visiting Stonehenge with Kids and Teens (in which I did NOT crash the rental car!)
Travel date: June 11, 2019 Stonehenge was Dave’s sole must see on our entire England and Ireland trip. And so we saw it! It was a bit of a detour, but it fit in pretty nicely as a stop between London and Bath. We left London on Tuesday morning, took a million (or three) trains, […]
Sugar Moon Farm: Exploring Nova Scotia with Kids
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 […]