travel dates: July 2022 Several years ago we went to Lassen Volcanic National Park in early July and found massive mounds of snow still blocking park roads and cutting us off from many of the park’s biggest attractions. Some research confirmed that we were exceptionally unlucky; the park websites has records listing the date the […]
A Smoky Stay at Liberty Harbor RV Park in Jersey City: Campground Review
travel dates: June, 2023 Anyone planning an RV trip to New York City will have to confront that age old dilemma: stay close to the city in the expensive parking lot that is Liberty Harbor RV Park–right across the water from Manhattan–or stay at a campground campground and deal with a long commute into the city. A […]
West Glacier KOA Resort: A Fancy Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2022 KOA is fairly stingy about handing out their “resort” designation. KOAs are labeled “journey,” “holiday,” or “resort” based on level of amenities, but, of the more than 500 KOAs, only 17 are currently resorts. We’ve stayed at a couple of different ones and have sometimes felt the resort label was a wee bit […]
Breweries, Breweries, Breweries: In Which We Finally Try Harvest Hosts
We’ve just gotten back from our fabulous Newfoundland trip, and I’m going to kick off writing not about Newfoundland, but about our first foray into the world of staying at Harvest Hosts (that’s my referral link and will get you a 15% off discount): For those not familiar with it, Harvest Hosts is a membership-based program […]
Three Days in Missoula, Montana with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: July, 2022 We love a good college town, and Missoula is an excellent college town. We spent three days there last July, which felt like a good amount of time to see a lot of the city. Missoula offers a great blend of urban and outdoorsy stuff to do, something Montana in general excels at. […]
Jim and Mary’s RV Park in Missoula, MT: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2022 Jim and Mary’s RV Park! Sounds so friendly, doesn’t it? Don’t you just want to go hang out with Jim and Mary around the campfire? Well, you can’t, because Jim and Mary sold the RV park over 20 years ago. But! The good news is the current owners are also friendly, […]
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 […]
Bozeman, Montana with Kids and Teens (and farewell to the Inn on the Gallatin)
travel dates: June, 2022 Like with so many drives during our summer of mountains, I was a little worried about the one that would take us from Brigham City, Utah to Bozeman, Montana. And as with all of the drives, I needn’t have worried. With the help of the Mountain Driving Directory and a good […]
Two Days in Chicago with Kids and Teens or, In the Midwest it’s Always Still Snowing in April
travel dates: April 2022 Taking a quick break from last summer’s blog posts for a belated recap of last spring’s spring break trip to Chicago–everyone’s favorite spring break destination. Well. Not really. But we had a few different midwestern colleges we needed go get to so that our then senior, Milo, could pick one of them […]
Visiting Spiral Jetty and Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah (in which we sacrifice a hubcap for art)
travel dates: June, 2022 In 1970, artist Robert Smithson hired a crew to haul nearly 7000 tons of rock to the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah and arrange it into a 1500 foot long spiral jutting counterclockwise into the lake. The sculpture is stunning to look at, and it has a […]