while we were in nc with family, we celebrated halloween, my birthday, thanksgiving, hazel’s birthday and christmas. we crammed a lot in. this post is about my birthday. my 40th birthday to be exact. i celebrated a night early with the family. on my actual bday, i went out to the porch (my fave) with […]
the rambling road show
halloween 2016…
we arrived in nc on october 30th. the kids were bummed that leaving early meant we missed out on the campground halloween festivities, but thankfully, our good pal heather invited us to her neighborhood for some trick or treating in winston-salem. you know, since we are homeless. i put my walking dead knowledge to work, […]
from hershey to home.
sorry for the very long overdue blogging. but this post will mostly explain why… when i left off, my parents were leaving us in hershey on a sunday morning. that afternoon, derek packed up to head out of town for a few days for work and we took him to the airport in philadelphia. it […]
pumpkin-y pennsylvania visit from new gramma and grampa terry.
as mentioned in a previous post, my mom and stepdad came down for a few days last week, to visit us before we head out west on our epic road trip. most of the first afternoon was spent settling in and showing off (parents and kids, respectively). on the second day, before the rain and […]
gettysburg national military park.
on thursday, my mom and stepdad rolled into town for a quick little visit. yesterday (saturday), we all packed into the minivan like sardines and drove to gettysburg to get some civil war knowledge in our brains. so, it was really cold and really really windy. hazel had a fail proof solution. derek is mad […]
harrisburg… museum + capitol.
our current campground is about 30 minutes from harrisburg, pennsylvania, which is cool for a couple of reasons. one, there are several free museums that we can visit with our science museum membership. and two, it’s the capital. so, a couple of days ago, off we went. we chose the whitaker center for arts and […]
hershey weekend.
we arrived in the hershey/gettysburg area on saturday afternoon. set up camp. and headed off to hershey’s chocolate world. it was a lot different than i remembered from the time i went when i was like 8 or so. everything was just digitally projected onto machine shaped “screens” and there was audio coming at us […]
eastern pa. so boring.
after our amazing five weeks in maine, our time in eastern pennsylvania was a bit of a letdown. it started with two, back to back, 4.5 hour travel days. it doesn’t seem like much, considering we used to make the 10-11 hour drive to ny from nc a few times a year. but, with packing […]
new jersey day (trains and mines).
last saturday, we crossed the over the border (and the delaware river) and spent the day in new jersey. derek had picked out a few activities for us, so we could put our NJ sticker on our state map. our first stop was at a little model train museum. it definitely wasn’t nearly as impressive […]
roba pumpkin patch.
now that it’s fall and holidays are coming at us, i’m finding that one of the hard parts of the road life is realizing that we won’t be able to do a lot of our family traditions. my timehop app on my phone keeps reminding me of things like patterson farms, pumpkin carving, baking and […]