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Acadia trip with JB
10/4/07 to 10/8/07 (Columbus Day Weekend)
I had suggested this trip to my old friend JB as kind of a reliving of our younger days. We hadn’t travelled together in a few years, and I hadn’t been to Acadia since 2003. A young person I knew spent a weekend in Acadia in late […]

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This year we returned to Cape Cod, this time decked out with bicycles, canoe, and popup camper. This was the first big trip for the popup, five nights in Nickerson State Park.

Yes, that’s the whole family in the canoe, paddling Cliff Pond at Nickerson State Park.

Here’s Son getting all tied up:

Daughter picked a water lily […]

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Popup camping in the Connecticut River Valley

For our first camping trip with the popup, we ventured to the Connecticut River Valley for a weekend trip. We didn’t have much of an agenda planned, my only goal was to do some pupup camping and check out Gillette Castle. I had wanted to visit Gillette castle for […]

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A few weeks ago, we got an itch we just had to scratch. Basically we woke up one day and realized that the time had come for us to get a pop-up camper. The Wife had spent many an idyllic youthful camping trip in one. For me, it was a logical step up from […]

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Overnighter in Franconia Notch with Daughter

Daughter and I enjoyed a short (overnight) camping trip to Franconia Notch. I introduced her to my favorite kind of outdoor travel, with a taste of hiking and bicycling. We tented in the Fransted Family Campground, which was nicely quiet in October. We toured some of New Hampshire’s beautiful natural […]

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We spent a lovely weekend camping in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, and visiting with some old college friends. Here Daughter and Son enjoy morning breakfast at the campsite.

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September 2000
I left the wife and baby Daughter behind and traveled to Acadia National Park with my old travel companion J.B. We camped in a beautiful spot on the […]

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