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How to Fly to a National Park and Camp — Four People, Two Checked Bags
Our fly-camping setup: what we own, what it weighs, what it cost, and what can't get on the plane.
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Grand Teton National Park — Four Nights at Jenny Lake
Summer 2026 National Parks · Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming · July 23–27, 2026 We spent four nights camped at Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park at the end of July — the two of us and our two…
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Disney World in July
I would not recommend July as the first choice of when to visit Disney, but it wasn’t as bad as I had imagined. It helped that every afternoon we left the parks to cool off at the hotel and/or pool.…
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Wheels Up at Dawn — The Long Way Home, and a Look Back
Every trip ends with an early alarm, and this one ended with a really early one. Our flight out of Burlington was at 6:25, which meant up before dawn, a quiet hotel hallway, and the rental car dropped at BTV…
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A Full Day in Burlington — Church Street, Chocolate & a Lake Champlain Beach
This was our last full day of the whole trip, and we spent it the way you should spend a last day: slow, in one good town, with nothing we had to do. Burlington made that easy. Everything we wanted…
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Over to Vermont — von Trapp Lager, Cider Donuts & a Certain Ice Cream Factory
We checked out of the Omni in no particular hurry and pointed the van west toward Vermont. I’d picked the long way on purpose — the Route 100 run through Stowe instead of the faster interstate — because the whole…
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Boothbay Harbor, Maine
In early June, we spent two nights in quaint Boothbay Harbor on the coast of Maine. After wandering around town exploring the shops and sights, a great way to explore the area is taking a boat cruise. We chose to…
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Mount Washington — Up the Cog Railway, and a Rainy Last Day in the Notch
New England Road Trip 2026 · Bretton Woods, New Hampshire · Wednesday–Thursday, June 10–11 The Omni Mount Washington was our base for three nights, and it gave us the two ends of a great mountain stay: one big bucket-list day,…
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Across the State Line — Breaking Camp for the Omni Mount Washington
New England Road Trip 2026 · Acadia, Maine → Bretton Woods, New Hampshire · Tuesday, June 9 Three nights of tent camping in Acadia, and then it was time for the biggest contrast of the trip: tear down the campsite…
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The Big Sunny Day in Acadia — Cadillac, the Bar Island Sandbar & Lobster on Somes Sound
New England Road Trip 2026 · Acadia National Park, Maine · Monday, June 8 If the rainy day was about making the best of it, this was the day Acadia paid us back. The forecast flipped to clear and ~75°,…
