travel dates: June, 2022 As I write these first few posts about our summer 2022 trip, I’m writing not only a travelogue, but also a serialized short story about our assorted van woes. Which is why this post is not called THREE days in Memphis with Kids and Teens. We were in Memphis for three days, […]
Wayne County Fairgrounds RV Park near Detroit, MI: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2021 You can listen to me talking about Wayne County Fairgrounds and our trip to Detroit on the RV Atlas Podcast There’s something about the challenge of finding good RV camping near big cities that appeals to me. Sometimes it’s pretty straightforward, and there’s a solid campground very close to the city (the Philadelphia South KOA). […]
Oak Mountain State Park, et. al: A Campground Review and Van Woes
travel dates: June, 2022 Ah, August! That time when, for us Georgians, it is still unbearably hot and muggy outside and yet summer is officially over and everyone must return to real life. We’re back from our mostly wonderful eight week long summer trip, which we dubbed Mountains, Mountains, and More Mountains for reasons that […]
Two Days in Niagara Falls with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: July 2021 For the National Park Service, Niagara Falls has long been a cautionary tale: we need to protect America’s natural wonders quick, before they all go the way of Niagara Falls–commercialized and built up and surrounded by tourist traps! And it’s true. That’s what Niagara Falls is like, and it would be nicer if […]
Four Mile Creek State Park near Niagara Falls: Campground Review
travel dates: July, 2021 I talked about this campground awhile back on the RV Atlas podcast: you can listen to that episode here We stayed at some really nice resort type campgrounds on this trip and very much enjoyed them. There are some resort type campgrounds in the Niagara Falls area that have wonderful reviews and would […]
Two Days in the Finger Lakes with Kids and Teens: Seneca Falls and Watkins Glen State Park
Travel dates: July, 2021 There were two things we wanted to make sure to see while we were in New York’s Finger Lakes region last summer, one of them a little more…obvious than the other. We knew we wanted to go to Watkins Glen State Park, for this was the summer of hiking through gorges. […]
Sned-Acres Family Campground: Campground Review
Travel dates: July, 2021 We had a bit of a motley itinerary in summer of 2021, one that tied together New England with parts of the midwest. But one nice thing about this somewhat inefficient route is that it let us spend some time along the way checking out parts of New York we’d never […]
Visiting Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY
travel dates: July, 2021 A quick post today about Opus 40, a cool place we went that doesn’t really fit in anywhere as part of a longer post. We were in the area to tour Bard College with Milo, our current senior, and we had just enough time to fit in a visit to Opus […]
Thanksgiving on Jekyll Island (Mostly a Photo Diary)
Travel dates: Thanksgiving, 2021 Taking a quick break from last summer’s trip to fill in a bit about our school year travels. We didn’t do a ton of that, but we spend a wonderful week on Jekyll Island with Dave’s parents. We were at the Jekyll Island Campground and they had a condo rental nearby. […]
More Vermont: The Shelburne Museum and Shelburne Farms with Kids and Teens
I start a fair number of descriptions of places we’ve been with words to the effect of, “we didn’t really know what to expect here…” There is good reason why I feel I need to point out when I don’t know what to expect: I usually do know more or less exactly what to expect, because I’m […]