A few years ago I wouldn’t have wanted to do any part of a Disney trip without Dave. It would have seemed like a lot of work for a lot of payoff for the kids, but not so much for me. So I was pleased discover during the first, Dave-less, part of this trip, that […]
Our Fabulous, yet Also Sort of Terrible Disney World Trip
We just got back from Disney World last weekend and, wow: that was….something. This was supposed to be our first ever stay at Fort Wilderness, but, sadly, our trailer has been at the dealership for over a month now getting extensive work done, mostly fixing the water damage we first noticed over the summer (more […]
Art, Math, and Singing Waiters: One Day in NYC with Kids
We continued our whirlwind tour of east coast cities with a single day in Manhattan (we were at Croton Point Park for 4 nights, but we also spent one day north of the park and one day visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island). Perhaps this means we should have devoted the time to […]
Croton Point Park: RV Camping Near NYC
Travel dates: June 4-9, 2018 If you’re looking into your RV-friendly campground options close to New York City, the first place you’ll hear about is Liberty Harbor, just across the river in Jersey City. After that, people mention Black Bear Campground, 60 miles north of Manhattan, and a couple of KOAs that are even farther […]
Valley Forge with Kids: June is Fickle
We had two full days in the Philadelphia area, and we had to decide whether to spend day two in the city again (you can read about day one here) or to venture farther out and go somewhere we’d never been before, like, for example, Valley Forge. We had plans to meet up that day […]
History, Heat, and Ice Cream: A Day in Philadelphia with Kids
Travel date: June 2, 2018 We’ve been to Philadelphia several times now, and it seems like something always pops up to keep us from having the perfect day there. Like the time we were walking back to our car after visiting the Franklin Institute and the skies suddenly opened up with the most apocalyptic rainstorm we’ve […]
Lake Fairfax Park Campground Review: Great Option near Washington, DC
Travel dates: May 29-June 1, 2018 I think of Washington, DC as right up there near the top of the list of cities you’d rather not get anywhere near with a car, much less a giant RV. Given this, there are a surprising number of reasonable campground options near the city. I mean, you’re not […]
Two Days in Washington, DC with Kids: National Museum of African American History and Culture + More
Travel dates: May 30-31, 2018 I thought of the first part of our summer trip as a sampling of east coast cities. We sort of raced up the coast, stopping for just a couple of days in cities that we could easily have spent a week in. But Nova Scotia was calling. And the nice […]
Falls Lake State Recreation Area, Rolling View: Campground Review
If you want to go see lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center, you’re going to need a campground to stay at, right? Right. I remember at some point I was having trouble finding a well-reviewed RV park near Durham, but now I can’t figure out why. There are several different State Recreation Area campgrounds in […]
PEI, New Brunswick, and Heading Back Home: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #6
Hey, we’re home! So here’s the very last update! I don’t think we even had an RVing catastrophe in the last stretch. There was the campground in New Brunswick where they locked us in. We tried to leave to go get gas (and see the world’s largest axe) at a little after 9, only to […]