Eighteen Short Years: Travel. Adventure. Joy.
Traveling by RV has allowed our family to travel big on a smaller budget than the same trips would demand if flights, rental cars, and accommodations were necessary. Though the expense may be less, our trips certainly aren’t free – requiring campground reservations, food and fun on the road, and so. many. fuel. charges. These […]
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After a long (albeit relaxing and fun) week away from home vacationing with family in the Outer Banks last week, this week largely revolved around catching up for our family of four. Our adventures fell in between unpacking, lawn mowing, and general house upkeep. Fishing, swimming, BMX racing, collecting wild berries, creating in the kitchen,
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We went to the beach! After years of hearing friends and family rave about the Outer Banks of North Carolina, our family finally had a chance to see what the hype was all about. My mom rented a house in Duck, NC for the week, and our family got to enjoy a whole lot of
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Our last seven days were pretty quiet (well, with the exception of the fireworks!), but full of fun. The 4th of July holiday falling on Tuesday offered us some extra excitement this week! We Had Great Day of BMX Racing Between baseball commitments, a mom and dad live music getaway, and a family camping trip
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We have taken two extended cross-country RV trips and a two-week New England tour since 2020. We’ve driven from Pennsylvania to South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah, and made layovers in many states in between. This spring of 2023, we took a shorter trip south to the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge area. We visited Great Smoky
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We love live music. We love camping. We combined the two loves for the first time this summer AND scored a two-night date getaway. Mike and I are quick to admit that we’re late to the game Grateful Dead fans. When we met 17 years ago, I don’t think either of us owned a piece
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My husband has family on Cape Cod, so we travel to Massachusetts at least once a year to visit. While the narrow roads and premium land value of Cape Cod don’t add up to it being a sought-after RV destination in my book, we looked into traveling with our camper for our summer of 2022
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How our family enjoyed RV camping – the kids enjoyed summer camp, and the adults enjoyed a little alone time – in one fun-filled week in Ithaca, NY. How We Chose to RV Camp at Summer Camp Many factors played a role in our decision to take a week-long family camping trip so that our
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A new BMX track and a new campground made this one a relaxing weekend of firsts for our family. Bouncing on a hayride, under a full moon. Your arm around my shoulder, don’t you still make me swoon. It could’ve been a country song. Except I don’t really enjoy country music. Sorry. I did, however,
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Back in March, we bought annual 2023-2024 ski passes to Greek Peak in Marathon, New York, for our family of four. Celebrating their 65th season, the local(ish) to us ski resort offered season passes at what we thought was a great, low price. After a successful 22-23 season full of long days on the slopes,
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Our family could easily list many reasons we love BMX racing. But these 7 are reasons we think EVERY family should consider trying out this Olympic sport. We started BMX racing four years ago. Our boys, ages 2 and 5 at the time, couldn’t get enough of their bikes. My husband went on the hunt
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The title of this post made me gag a little as I typed it. But here I am, writing on – owning that gross title. Because Mother’s Day 2023 could really only have been improved in a few, small ways. But…. If I had celebrated the day 15 pounds thinner, would I have allowed myself
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I’m sure I’ve failed terribly in many aspects of parenting and family life over the last 9 and a half years, but one area I often feel the worst about is the lack of an annual family photo shoot. Our last family photo shoot with a professional photographer was five years ago! The saving grace
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Our family has hauled our 30′ travel trailer from Pennsylvania to South Dakota – Wyoming – Colorado – Utah – Arizona – Tennesse – and all over New England. The four of us nestled into our Ram 1500, we’ve taken trips that have covered more than 6,000 miles over a span of 23 days on
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All I ever want for Mother’s Day is to go camping. We bought our travel trailer in early March of 2020, so our first Mother’s Day weekend as RVers was spent in Covid-19 quarantine. Regardless, we enjoyed our first campout ever in our new RV on Mother’s Day weekend. In our driveway. It was fabulous.
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Our extended summer of 2021 RV road trip was one breathtaking, jaw-dropping experience after another. But as opportunities for outdoor adventure goes: Moah, Utah won our hearts. With a total of 23 nights spent on the road, our stay at Moab KOA Holiday was our longest stint in one place – 5 nights. It was
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Our family took our first major RV road trip just three months after purchasing our travel trailer. While shopping for, and eventually buying, our RV, we talked about traveling around the country to explore National Parks. But those conversations were whimsical. Daydreams. They started with “wouldn’t it be cool if….”, and “maybe one day we’ll….”
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Spring break! Until this last week, the last spring break I enjoyed was April, 2003 – my senior year at West Virginia University. Then I started teaching up here in northeastern Pennsylvania, and for some odd reason, spring break is just something we don’t “do” up here. So when this year’s school calendar offered one
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This year our family opened up our camping season with a spring break trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. Stopping by New River Gorge, West Virginia on the way, this trip checked off National Park visits #11 and #12 for our family of four! As a family who plans most of their camping around State
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As we prep the RV for our first trip of the season to Gatlinburg, Tennesse, and the Great Smokey Mountains (yay!), I’ve found a newfound appreciation for so many of the little things in our camper – things that I am so happy our RV came with, or that we’ve added along the way. So
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We are excited to leave for our first RV trip of the 2023 season in less than a week as we head to Gatlinburg, Tennesse to visit The Great Smokey Mountains National Park, explore Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and stop at West Virginia’s New River Gorge National Park. We’ll be taking in a Nascar
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