We have laid to rest one of our dear friends, Mark Conway, and for those who know Mark I am posting some miscellaneous photographs, plus the eulogy I delivered at his funeral service. The pictures are in random order, but in looking through the pictures, there seems to be recurring themes of food, beverage, golf,… Read More A Tear in the Fabric – Apr 2024
Last weekend I had the opportunity to join a couple of buddies for a Global Arts Live concert at the Crystal Ballroom in Davis Square (Somerville, MA) to see Altan, a traditional Irish band. Wow. They are SO good – I described to my buddy that it was singularly the most beautiful concert I had… Read More Boston’s Global Arts Live: Altan – Mar 2024
This weekend I had the pleasure (?) of attending a service celebrating the life of a woman, Linda Pierpont, who passed away recently, but I never knew. Why, you ask, would you attend a service, in a somewhat remote part of Maine, hours away, in a church service in which I knew not a soul?… Read More A True Tale of Bull – Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Nothing like starting out the year with some severe weather!. Pretty much the entire country has seen some crazy weather since the start of the year, and nothing here in New Hampshire compares to some of the devastation that happened in the Florida panhandle and other places because of tornados. The weather… Read More Hampton (NH) Weather – Jan 2024
As happens every year at this time, I sit down to recap the year, and I think to myself, what the hell did we do? If this didn’t happen to me every year, I might think I was losing my mind. It could be the horse is already out of the barn. Karen had her… Read More 2023 in Review – Dec 2023
We have been camped for the past week at the Champlain Resort Adult Campground in Grand Isle, VT. I know this is probably a layup to make jokes about staying at an “adult” campground. You’re probably asking yourself a) what kind of activities go on there, and b) how did we qualify to get into… Read More South Hero Island – Sept 2023
September is the quintessential month for camping. Is it because the air is dry, the temperatures are cool, and the leaves are starting to turn? No. It’s because young families are home buying school supplies, taking kids to soccer, and fighting virulent diseases in daycare centers. That leaves us old, cranky misanthropes to scour the… Read More White Mountains of NH – Sept 2023
For the three of you who read this blog, I’ll bet you’ve missed us! Wait, you haven’t? I know it has been a while since we last communicated with you, but it hasn’t been for a lack of love. I thought to myself… do we even have anything interesting to write about? And then I… Read More Summer of ’23 – Aug 2023
Another notch in the belt of spending our kids’ inheritance… we recently arrived for the coveted Airstream service appointment at the Airstream factory in Jackson Center, OH. I delight in explaining to people that over the years we have almost single handedly paid for their new manufacturing facilities. And as you might expect, this place… Read More Airstream Service – May 2023
Colorado Rocky Mountain highI’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the skyFriends around the campfire and everybody’s high Everyone has heard John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High, but we got to experience it. Our son and daughter-in-law, who got married in November, held their reception this past weekend just outside of Rocky Mountain National Park. The roughly… Read More Rocky Mountain High – May 2023
No, we are not at Saint Peter’s Basilica. But we are near a royal place. People have their own most reverent places to go. Folks might go to Saint Peter’s, the Hurva Synagogue, the Pashupatinath Temple, the Masjid al‑Haram Mosque. The Simpsons go to the First Church of Springfield. The Slowskys go to Franklin’s BBQ… Read More The Basilica of ATX – May 2023
Going to visit your kids never gets old. For us. For them, of course, it is interminable. We made a trip to Washington, DC to see Child Unit 1, and as always had a fabulous time. Now I won’t lie – taking a 55-foot long rig into DC is no prize, much less the roads… Read More Washington, DC – Apr 2023
I am kind of excited about a new feature on our web site – the Slowsky Map! At the top of the travelwiththeslowskys.com home page, you will find a button to click called Slowsky Map. The map is intended to provide an easy-to-use way for you to find our experiences (previous posts) geographically. If you… Read More New Blog Feature! – Apr 2023
The Masters… probably one of the most prestigious competitive sports events in the world is going on as we speak at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, GA. Each year it is the first of four major golf championships – the others being the PGA Championship, The Open, and the British Open (the Open… Read More Masters Tournament – Apr 2023
Greetings from the great white north (Eh, Hoser?). We have successfully endured our first full winter in the Live Free or Die state of New Hampshire – no worse for the wear. We sold our home in Georgia back in October, and then wandered cross-country until in December we moved full-time into our 800 square… Read More Winter in New England – Apr 2023
I maintain there is little more powerful than weather. And the ocean is almost always humbling. Add weather like we have all had, an astronomical high tide, and you’ve got, not to make lightly, the perfect storm. Like it has for just about everybody in America, the last few days have represented some crazy weather… Read More Seacoast: Add Weather – Dec 2022
Intuitively, I know we had a great year this past year. But, as always, it is not until I go back through our journals that I recognize just how beautiful, complex, and in some areas stressful it was. I know many of you are expecting the crème de la crème this year to be our… Read More 2022 in Review – Dec 2022
Resort. I had to look up the word because I felt I may have missed or forgotten its’ meaning. I mean, it’s not like we have never stayed in a resort. In fact, we have stayed in some of the finest resorts in the world. Years ago, I called on some of the top resort… Read More RV Resort – Nov 2022
Yesseree! Child Unit 2 (you may know him as Drew) has gotten hitched! Drew met Rachel Bolin, his betrothed, at a conference several years ago and pretty much they became a thing. First things first, for this post you don’t need to be Ansel Adams or Annie Leibovitz to figure out who took which photos,… Read More Child Unit 2 Marries! – Nov 2022
We sold our house and are working our way west to Denver – hed’n to the wed’n. Yup, our son will be getting married in November, so we are taking a slow stroll west. First stop? See old friends (sorry, did that sound catty or judgmental?) at TCPC (Tennessee Cumberland Plateau Campground), one of our… Read More Hed’n to the Wed’n – Oct 2022
For those of you who follow our real estate transactions (hopefully not), this may sound like a re-do, but we are selling our house in the Prince Howard neighborhood and moving full time to our cottage in New Hampshire. Sound oddly familiar? We have made the decision and are in process of making this happen. … Read More Prince Howard – Sept 2022
This will be a short post, not for any bad reason – just because we quickly move on, and basically off the grid. We spent a few days in Great Falls – kind of as a gathering point, partly as a laundry/chores stop, but also partly to gain a little western art and Lewis &… Read More Montana: Part II – Sept 2022
After several amazing weeks in Idaho, we departed Idaho and almost immediately became enamored with Montana! Traveling down a 2-lane road, no other vehicles in sight, we were in a “valley” (albeit at +/- 6,000 feet elevation), with massive mountains on one side that must have topped 12,000 feet, and on the other side for… Read More Montana: Part I – Sept 2022
Last but not least… Part III. This will be the last post from Idaho – at least for a while. We will be moving on, as we always do. We made our way further north from Riggins to Heyburn State Park in Plummer, ID. On our route to Heyburn, we spent hours simply amazed by… Read More Idaho: Part III – Sept 2022
You know where Riggins, Idaho is? It is halfway between the north pole and the equator. So there. We departed Stanley heading northwest on the Ponderosa Pines Scenic Byway. We stopped by the ranch, but Ben, Hoss, and Little Joe were out mending the fence line. Just as well – Karen still has a crush… Read More Idaho: Part II – Aug 2022
Wow. And I thought Wyoming was pretty! At first, I thought I would post one session about our trip to Idaho. Not so fast, big boy. This state is turning out to be one hell of a beautiful state, with so much to share! So here is our first post of several about Idaho. Based… Read More Idaho: Part I – Aug 2022
Wyoming – what a beautiful place! And we only covered a tiny slice of the state… we’ve got plenty more to see. Now what makes me a bit nervous is showing you a few of our locations – we think they are beautiful, but you may view them as desolate and lonely. To each their… Read More Wyoming – Aug 2022
If for some reason you are headed west from New England on I-90 and I-80 towards Denver, this post might be mildly interesting. If not, don’t say I didn’t warn you. We are spending most of our time on this part of our trip on interstate highways, which is not our usual MO. We are headed… Read More Heading West – Aug 2022
It feels odd to be summarizing the summer of 2022 on the first day of August, but we head west in just days. Think Lewis and Clark meets Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, perhaps absent the enlightenment. The route below will not exactly be our route, but we won’t burden you with details. … Read More Summer of ’22 – Aug 2022
I thought this golf posting might make for a nice subset of the travel experience, particularly for those travelers who might travel to New England. Or, it could be I just have an unhealthy relationship with the game of golf and felt the need to vent. Prompted by my good friend David, inspired by Charl… Read More Black Swan Country Club – July 2022