A small fishing village at the very tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown, Massachusetts has been a popular gay getaway since the 1970s. Now quaint B&Bs, disco bars, spendy restaurants and art galleries cozy in along the fishing boats and marine…
New Brunswick, Canada
Driving through New Brunswick was like sitting in a moving iMax theater for six hours, watching colors and scenery in some world that normally only photographers and filmmakers get to see. Oregon gets some beautiful fall colors, but nothing close…
Celtic Colours Festival in Nova Scotia
When we decided to join our friends, Marcia and Cindy, in Nova Scotia for the Celtic Colours festival, we were lucky to get the last two tickets together for the opening performance on Friday. It featured Loreena McKennitt, a Canadian…
Cape Breton National Park, Nova Scotia
We were headed to Maine when our neighbor friends mentioned they were going to a Celtic music festival in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia has always seemed like an impossibly far-off place, but on the map, it didn’t look so far…
Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick
We chose the coastal route from Bar Harbor, Maine to Nova Scotia, Canada. That took us through St. John’s, New Brunswick and lots of small fishing villages. We decided to camp at the Bay of Fundy National Park, which was…
Alpaca Farm in Maine
Who doesn’t love an alpaca? Or two? Or eighty stepping toward you in unison, eyes wide, ears cocked in rapt attention, tails twitching? Well, we do. So when we saw Misty Acres Alpaca Farm on our Harvest Hosts list, right…
Wells Beach, Maine
From Vermont, we drove to Wells Beach, Maine, where we had a quick overnight on our way to Bar Harbor. It wasn’t an especially quaint coastal town, a touristy place deserted in off season and with the roads ripped apart…
Sugar Farm near Montpelier
We belong to an RV club called Harvest Hosts, which for $40/year supplies us a list of farms, wineries, and other places that offer free overnight parking for RV’ers. Until now, we’d only used it once, at Windmill Farm in…
Green Mountain
We were driving through the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont when our AllStays app indicated that there were four free campsites not far off the road. We’d heard that you can camp for free in national forests, but we’d…
Eclipse at River’s Edge
When we left the Adirondacks, we weren’t sure where we would stay that night, but we hoped it would be somewhere with a good view of the lunar eclipse. We pulled into two places on the shore of Lake Champlain,…
Adirondacks Revisited
In August, we stayed at my favorite campground so far, Lewey Lake in the Adirondacks. We only stayed a couple of nights, because we had to go back to Missouri, but we vowed to come back. This time we stayed…