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Boston Minuteman Campground and Minute Man National Historical Park

September 24, 2016 by kokotg 2 Comments

travel dates: June 11-13, 2016 Let’s take a moment to reflect on my title up there and on the fact that the campground spells minuteman as all one word, whereas the NPS site splits it into two. Is there some deep significance to this? Is it like how the Wallace Stevens poem is called “The […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, massachusetts, museums and attractions, national parks, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: campground reviews, junior ranger, massachusetts, museums, national parks, nps

Cape Cod with Kids: Eastham, MA and Cape Cod National Seashore

August 17, 2016 by kokotg 2 Comments

Even though we live in the Southeast, the vast majority of my kids’ beach time has been spent on Cape Cod and on the west coast. They don’t really have much of a grasp of the idea that the ocean can be warm. We compound the problem by often visiting the Cape in June, when […]

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Filed Under: massachusetts, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: beach, cape cod, hiking, kayaking, museums, national parks, nps

A Day at Mystic Seaport

July 31, 2016 by kokotg 6 Comments

We came pretty close to skipping Mystic Seaport when we were itinerary planning. We just went to Williamsburg, VA a couple of of years ago, and this seemed like pretty much the same thing, only with more boats. It’s expensive. Maybe we should just skip it and get to Cape Cod a day earlier instead. […]

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Filed Under: connecticut, museums and attractions, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: connecticut, museums, mystic, ships

Four Things to Do near Vogel State Park, Blairsville, GA

July 27, 2016 by kokotg 1 Comment

In the weeks leading up to our trip to Vogel, I came up with a long list of things to do in the area. Unfortunately, I wrote it down on an actual piece of paper with an actual pencil like in olden times, and then I lost it. But then I managed to mostly reconstruct […]

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Lake-in-Wood Campground in Narvon, PA: RVFTA Rally and a Day in Philadelphia

July 3, 2016 by kokotg 6 Comments

I’m not sure you’d really call us rally people. If you were going to call us something. Other things would probably come to mind first. But when the dates and location for the RV Family Travel Atlas spring rally were announced last year right around the same time we were deciding that we really and […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, museums and attractions, national parks, pennsylvania, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: campground reviews, history, museums, national parks, nps, pennsylvania

Elkin, NC: First Stop on our Summer, 2016 Road Trip

June 12, 2016 by kokotg 4 Comments

It’s finally here! Our big summer road trip: twenty two nights, ten campgrounds, and a whole lot of ice cream. This trip was originally conceived as sort of a practice trip for next summer’s massive road trip, but it’s turning out to be pretty substantial all by itself. As I’m writing, we’re already about two […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, museums and attractions, north carolina Tagged With: 52hikechallenge, blue ridge parkway, campground reviews, hiking, museums, national parks, north carolina

St. Louis Again! Gateway Arch (finally) and the Zoo (briefly): Spring Break, Part 5

May 13, 2016 by kokotg 2 Comments

Thursday was our last full day in St. Louis and, thus, our last chance to finally make it up into the Gateway Arch. Our first attempt, you might recall, ended with a mechanical problem and severe disappointment (particularly for poor Milo). And then we briefly considered trying again after leaving the City Museum on Wednesday, […]

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More St. Louis: City Museum (Spring Break, Part 4)

May 8, 2016 by kokotg 4 Comments

When you mention that you’re going to St. Louis to pretty much anyone who knows anything about St. Louis, the first thing they do is make sure that you are aware of and planning to visit the City Museum. And who are we to argue with everyone? So of course it was at the top […]

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Our First Day in St. Louis: The Museum of Transportation and the Gateway Arch (sort of): Spring Break Trip, Part 3

April 23, 2016 by kokotg 6 Comments

I think the greatest compliment you can pay a city is looking at real estate listings after you visit. I paid St. Louis this compliment, even though, to be clear, I’m never moving again. But we really enjoyed St. Louis and barely scratched the surface of things to do there during our three day visit […]

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Red Top Mountain State Park and Campground Review; or Continuation of Remains of Industry Tour: THWARTED!

March 24, 2016 by kokotg 7 Comments

As regular readers will recall, we are, it seems, on a quest to become experts on the history of the iron industry in the Southeastern United States. Or, anyway, we saw a lot of iron-related sites on our recent trip to Birmingham. And we happen to have a state park nearby that hosts an iron […]

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Filed Under: Campground Reviews, Georgia, hiking, museums and attractions Tagged With: 52hikechallenge, campground reviews, Georgia, georgia state parks, hiking, museums, science

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