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Visiting Gettysburg National Military Park with Kids

November 14, 2016 by kokotg 6 Comments

Travel dates: June 14-16, 2016 Honestly? Battles kind of bore me. I can’t keep the details straight in my mind. I get bogged down in the logistics and weighed down by all the….death and stuff. I love history, but I’m more of a fan of the how ordinary people lived parts. Or the details of […]

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Filed Under: museums and attractions, pennsylvania, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: gettysburg, history, national parks, pennsylvania

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

Great Smoky Mountains Trip, Part 1: Inside the Park

September 13, 2016 by kokotg 5 Comments

We’re only 3-4 hours from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, depending on which part we’re trying to get to, so I feel like it really ought to be our National Park….yet this was only the second time we managed to make it there as a family. The first time was only a year ago, […]

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Filed Under: hiking, national parks, Tennessee Tagged With: great smoky mountains, hiking, national parks, nps, Tennessee

The Breakwater in Provincetown + Old Harbor Life Saving Station + Highland Light: More Cape Cod

August 23, 2016 by kokotg 4 Comments

Back when I was in grad school, Dave and I and a few friends randomly decided to go to Provincetown, MA one weekend….in January. There was still snow on the ground from a recent storm, but the actual days we were there were unseasonably warm. This was back before my obsessive planning phase, and one […]

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Filed Under: hiking, massachusetts, museums and attractions, summer 2016 east coast trip Tagged With: beach, cape cod, hiking, lighthouse, massachusetts, 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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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

Two Days in Shenandoah National Park

June 26, 2016 by kokotg 5 Comments

When I was in college, my roommate Suzanne and I took a road trip up to Washington, DC and back. My memory on this might be completely wrong, but I feel like this involved driving the entire length of the Blue Ridge Parkway AND Skyline Drive. In the Chevy Cavalier I’d inherited from my grandmother, […]

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Filed Under: 52 Hike Challenge, hiking, national parks, summer 2016 east coast trip, virginia Tagged With: hiking, national parks, shenandoah, virginia

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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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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