Travel dates: June 25, 2018 I love a good historic site (or even a mediocre historic site), but after you’ve done about a million of them in the US they can start to be a little repetitive. “Oh, look–a Civil War battle happened here, too.” I’m okay with repetition, but novelty is nice, too…and that’s what […]
Highbury Gardens RV Park in Canaan, Nova Scotia: Campground Review
There’s a ton to see in Nova Scotia, and planning a trip can be overwhelming–even if you have three weeks to fit everything in like we did. So I based a lot of our stops on the same thing I would when planning a trip in the US: proximity to national park sites. So I […]
Visiting Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia: An Unesco World Heritage Site
Travel date: June 23, 2018 The first time our tour guides called us all over to look at a 300 million year old fossil, everyone was awestruck. “Did he just find that right now…on the beach?” someone asked in wonder. But by the end of our beach walk these discoveries had become routine. We went […]
Hannibal, Missouri and Metropolis, Illinois: More College Road Trip Fun
Travel dates: November 16-21, 2018 Have I mentioned that I’ve become a bit of a college visit junkie? And to think I get to do this three more times! Our college road trips this year have given Ari and me a chance to see some cool things and spend some one on one time together […]
A Day in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia with Kids
I can’t remember exactly how the little town of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, right on the Bay of Fundy, made it onto our Atlantic Canada itinerary, but I’m glad it did. We loved the town, and it served as a perfect introduction to Nova Scotia for us. We spent three nights here, so we had two […]
Glooscap Campground in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia: Campground Review
Travel dates: June 21-24, 2018 “This campground is the real McCoy,” the guy in the office at Glooscap Campground told us before we went off to find our site. It was part brag and part warning. You won’t find any fancy amenities at Glooscap–no pool, no organized activities….not even much in the way of indoor plumbing (pit toilets […]
Our First Trip to the Canadian Maritimes: Tips and Observations about All Things Canada
When we were driving across New Brunswick on our way to Parrsboro, our first stop in Nova Scotia, I realized that the campground we were staying at was cash only. We didn’t have any Canadian cash yet, so we called the campground to explain the situation and ask if there’d be an ATM we could […]
Bar Harbor Oceanside KOA Campground Review
The conventional wisdom about the Bar Harbor Oceanside KOA is that it’s an amazing campground….if you can get one of the oceanfront sites. So we dutifully got online the first day reservations opened up to snag one, and it was well worth planning for. Waking up to that view every day was incredible, we loved […]
2019 Travel Plans
I was reading back through my post about our 2018 plans, and I found that I approached 2018 with all the big trips laid out already, with only a few weekends here and there left to fill in. A lot of those plans never actually materialized– we’ve had a very busy schedule of kid activities and […]
Our Top 15 Travel Highlights of 2018
For the second year in a row, our New Year’s travel plans were thwarted by weather. Last year it was extreme cold and icy roads in the forecast all over the southeast; this year it was rain and thunderstorms and tornado warnings. (Incidentally, I posted about canceling our trip on an RVing facebook group and […]