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As our final adventure of the Cape Cod trip, we took a whalewatching cruise with Dolphin Fleet of Provincetown. I’ve been whalewatching three times previously, twice from Provincetown and once from Nova Scotia. Each trip offered tantalizing glimpses of the mighty giants, awesome in their wild freedom but always mysterious, distant glimpses. After all, whales [...]

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Day 5: Wednesday Wednesday was one of our most relaxed and enjoyable days. We basically hung out at the pond behind our rental cabin. The kids searched for frogs, we rowed around in a little rowboat, splashed, dug, swam. In the evening we had our first-ever family game of mini-golf. Mini-golf seems almost as ubiquitous [...]

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Writing seems too much like work … here are some happy snappies …

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Cape cod. We’re setting off for “the Cape” for a week. There’s actually a fabulous wealth of activities to do with kids on the Cape, so we have no worry of getting bored. I made reservations for a Monday canoe trip with a naturalist at the Cape Cod National Seashore with Daughter, but otherwise we [...]

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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 [...]

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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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