My boys are darn good hikers. Not that they have a choice. Since Stephanie and I started RVing with them four years ago we have spent over a hundred nights camping, and dozens of days hiking. When they were just one we threw them in the truck, packed up the pop-up...
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Month: February 2014
Once a Year, A Hotel: Our Great Wolf Lodge Tradition
Feb 25, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
Max and Theo have spent well over 100 nights of their short lives traveling up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Nevertheless, they have only stayed in a hotel three times. Wes clocks in at one night so far. Suffice it to say, we have one way that we like to travel and...
What I Learned From a Couple of Nice Weekends in February…
Feb 24, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
Years ago, long before the boys arrived on the scene, the temperatures hit the high sixties on a weekend in February. Jeremy and I had a different sort of life then, and the weather inspired us to hightail it to a bed and breakfast in Cape May where we spent the...
The Challenges of International RV Travel (Our Guest Bloggers Go Metric!)
Feb 23, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
The Lively LIttle Campers are excited to read all about our guest bloggers’ adventures as they head to New Zealand on an epic RV adventure. Here is the latest installment. The challenges of planning a trip outside of the United States are myriad. The first challenge...
It Was Spring Today At the Jersey Shore… (Manasquan Reservoir, NJ)
Feb 22, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
When the temperature creeps up into the 50s during this sort of winter, it is almost impossible to decide what to do with the sunny respite. One feels a certain responsibility to enjoy every single second of pleasant weather. It is no wonder we ended up at the...
The Polar Vortex is Returning: Stay Warm in a Planetarium
Feb 21, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
Last weekend the high temperature around here was 31 degrees. With the ice and wind, we just knew we couldn't drag the brood outside. Most people with young children were hunkered down in a movie theater learning more about the wonderful world of Legos. But we have a...
Thinking About Buying a Pop-Up Camper? Consider This…
Feb 20, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
We often joke that buying our first pop up camper was the best and worst decision that we ever made. And it really was. It was the best decision because discovering the RVing lifestyle was a life changing series of moments for our family. It was the worst decision...
Our First Guest Bloggers! New Zealand Here They Come…
Feb 18, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
The Lively Little Campers have met several other kindred RV Travelers through this blog and we always love to hear about their adventures on the open road. So when we found out that John and Cathy, two of our long time readers, were heading to New Zealand for an RV...
Filling in the Blanks: Our Guest Bloggers Head to New Zealand
Feb 18, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
We are a couple of semi-retired teachers living in the Philadelphia suburbs. For each of our "big" anniversaries since number 25, we have taken a "big" trip. Ireland and Hawaii were enjoyed as a reward for putting up with each other. This year, for number 40, a really...
So Parenting Is Hard…Now What? (answer involves the great outdoors)
Feb 9, 2014 RVFamilyTravelAtlas
I've been noticing something lately. The more I read the blog posts that are liked and shared and tweeted and pinned, the more I am seeing a pattern emerge. There are a lot of moms talking about being moms. Mostly they are talking to other moms. And the message...
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