A quick post about our 2024 travel plans, which are, as is often the case in recent years, still on the tentative side. Some of them anyway. We have plans to see the solar eclipse, complete with an Airbnb that we booked over a year in advance. We’ve been looking forward to it ever since […]
Belated Top Ten Travel Memories of 2023
One of my favorite family traditions is the game we play every New Year’s Eve where we all make lists of our favorite travel memories of the year and then try to guess which list belongs to each person. The last couple of years have gotten a little tricky, though, as the older kids have […]
Codroy Valley and Grand Codroy RV Park: Our First Day in Newfoundland
travel dates: June 2023 We drove off the ferry in Newfoundland into some of the strongest wind we’ve ever encountered. There’s a visitor information center just a few minutes from the ferry in Port Aux Basques, and we stopped there to let the dogs out and to pick up some brochures and laughed about how […]
Going Underground in Havre, MT: Havre Beneath the Streets Tour
travel dates July 2022 Our original plan called for us to spend a couple of nights in Great Falls after leaving Glacier, check out Lewis and Clark stuff and all that. But I got very nervous looking at a map of our route east after Great Falls, which included a long stretch on “the Loneliest […]
Visiting Newfoundland: The Best Trip You’ll Ever Take to Somewhere Most Americans Can’t Find on a Map
Scroll to the bottom for links to every Newfoundland post! 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 […]
Amherst Shore Provincial Park, Nova Scotia: A Quick Campground Review
travel dates: June, 2023 I promised to come back with a review of Amherst Shore Provincial Park when I mentioned it in my long post about the Newfoundland Ferry. A review didn’t really make sense in that post since Amherst Shore is 250 miles from the ferry; honestly, Amherst Shore didn’t really make sense for […]
Glacier National Park East (and the Going to the Sun Road Finally Opens!)
travel dates: July 2022 After seeing the western side of Glacier National Park, we made our way east still not knowing for sure when the Going to the Sun Road was going to open. Rumors were swirling, but all the rangers we encountered steadfastly refused to verify the rumors. The road ended up opening on […]
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 […]
Hike Inn at Amicalola Falls State Park: A Kidless Weekend
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 […]
A Day in Brooklyn with Kids and Teens: The New York Transit Museum and a Rather Famous Bridge
Travel dates: June, 2022 Milo turned 20 (!) just before we left for this trip, so I guess I should really call this post “A Day in Brooklyn with Kids, Teens, Young Adults, and Middle-aged People.” But I’m not gonna. Anyway. We had a lot of ideas about what to do with our days in New […]