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 […]
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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 […]
More Nova Scotia: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #5
A cautionary tale about Verizon’s “Beyond Unlimited” plan: if you ask, when you sign up for the unlimited plan, if it will work the same in Canada, the folks at Verizon will tell you that absolutely it will. And then, when you cross into Canada, you’ll get a friendly text telling you that you’re all […]
First Week in Nova Scotia: 2018 East Coast Tour Update #4
Travel dates: June 21-29, 2018 We love Nova Scotia! I’m so in love with Atlantic Canada, in fact, that I want to start planning a trip to Newfoundland for next summer. But Dave thinks we should go west again instead. Boo. I guess there’s stuff worth seeing in other places, too. RVing disasters: We continue to have […]
Gros Morne National Park, North Side Edition: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: June, 2023 To the extent that Gros Morne National Park has a busy side, it’s the area north of Bonne Bay, where you’ll find the touristy little town of Rocky Harbour, popular excursions like the Western Brook Pond Tour, and Gros Morne mountain itself. After our aborted trip up the Great Northern Peninsula, […]
Visiting Newfoundland: The Best Trip You’ll Ever Take to Somewhere Most Americans Can’t Find on a Map
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 past few years. I’m saying this as someone, for example, […]
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 […]
Butte, Montana with Kids and Teens: Superfun and Superfund (and the Butte KOA)
travel dates: July, 2022 I couldn’t resist the Superfund wordplay in the title up there. I tried. It’s true that we really enjoyed Butte, though, more than we thought we would, even though we didn’t get to do any of things we’d planned to do there. Superfund is a program established by Congress in 1980 […]
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 […]
11 Favorite Campgrounds from Our First 5 Years of RVing
I’ve never done a list of our favorite campgrounds before, but now seems like a good time, with 5 years of RVing and a whole lot of campgrounds all over the US and Canada behind us. The whole family collaborated on the list, but I had the final say because it’s my blog. Ranking campgrounds […]