Category: Mid-Atlantic

Trip planning: Late summer loop through Ontario – Big Trip #5
Uncle Jim, you will be disappointed… we finally chose between our two very competitive late summer itinerary rivals, and the winner is ONTARIO! We are super excited! The Ontario portion is focused on the provincial parks lining the northern shore of Lake Superior. We read that securing campsites at the provincial parks can be difficult,…
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Planning again: future three-weeker in the Northeast
I started writing this post in the spring of 2025 and am revisiting trip planning while dreaming about escaping the East Coast ice. I had such fun planning a three-week trip for last May that I planned two routes–one heading south mostly staying in the Carolinas, and one into Upstate New York and New England.…
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Three nights in Alderson, WV–October WV/NC Mountains loop
We visited Alderson in October 2025 as part of our October WV/NC Mountains loop. Alderson is a tiny old railroad town along the Greenbrier River in southeastern West Virginia. It may be best known as the location of the federal womens’ prison where Martha Stewart did time, but it also has a historic downtown, and…
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Trip recap: October WV/NC Mountains loop
Hello! Because I’ve been so behind on writing posts about our May loop around the Carolinas, I didn’t bother to write a planning post for our October trip, so here’s the planning and recap all at once! We had plans with friends in the West Virginia mountains in early October, so used that as an…
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One night in Richmond, VA (visit #2) and three nights in Atlantic Beach, NC (visit #1)–May Carolinas loop
We visited Richmond and Atlantic Beach in May 2025 as part of our May Carolinas loop; read about our first (Airstream) visit to Richmond way back in 2016 here. Writing up the night we spent in Richmond and the weekend we spent in Atlantic Beach has been a struggle for us, as Richmond turned out…
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Trip recap: May Carolinas loop
Forgive us if it takes a while to get back into our normal writing groove. Looking at photos and trip details without Bugsy here makes us sad, but we know we’ll want to be able to reference our travel notes in the future, so we’re trying to get back on that horse. We ended up…
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One night in Damascus, VA (visit #2)–Five Days in the Mountains
We visited Damascus in September 2023, as part of our Five Days in the Mountains trip. Read about our first visit in 2016 here. We couldn’t dally too long on the Nolichucky because we had a bike shuttle reservation in Damascus! Our first Airstream trip after Big Trip #1 was to Damascus, a tiny town…
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New River Gorge National Park
This post combines activities in the New River Gorge from visits in September 2019, in May 2021, and in September 2023. The first time we visited Fayetteville, WV, in 2019, New River Gorge National Park wasn’t yet a national park! Previously designated a National River, the 70,000 acres surrounding the New River (actually one of the…
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One night in Fayetteville, WV (visit #4)–Five Days in the Mountains
We visited Fayetteville in September 2023, as part of our Five Days in the Mountains trip. Read about our previous visits here: Fall 2019, Spring 2021, and late Summer 2022. We spent the first night of a whirlwind Airstream tour through the mountains near home in Fayetteville, WV, home of New River Gorge National Park.…
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Trip planning: Five days in the WV/VA/TN mountains
[EDIT: See end of this post to find out where we ended up going!] Our Airstream has been sadly sitting all alone since we brought it home from the repair shop after our last trip in the spring to the mountains of WV and NC. We had to get the leaky hot water heater and…
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