Travels in the northeast
I wasn’t going to do a year-in-review post this year, because no one ever reads these posts. Well, besides me. I suffer from a medical malady called CRS, so these posts do a yeoman’s job of summarizing our debacles during the previous twelve months. My guess is we stuck our toes in about 25-30 states… Read More 2025 in Review – Dec 2025
Heading west again. Truth is, when you live in New Hampshire, it’s hard to go east. Alas, we are making our way out west for several activities over the next few months that should be awesome. At the time of this writing, the government has not closed, and hopefully it won’t, but we will deal… Read More Heading West – Sept 2025
I know this is a travel blog, but in the summertime, since we live in New England, we don’t generally travel very much, or very far. It’s just so freaking nice right here. But that doesn’t mean we sit on our fat ass and wait for fall. Well, truth be told, we do some of… Read More Maine Lighthouse Ride – Sept 2025
Two years ago, we camped at the Champlain Resort Adult Campground (previous post) along the shores of Lake Champlain in South Hero, north of Burlington, VT, so I’ll try not to rehash old territory too much. Suffice it to say that the reason we came back is because it is such an awesome place. The… Read More South Hero Island – Sept 2025
It’s been a few months since we were on the road, and waking up in our trailer is always awesome. In the hazy mist of dreams our first night, for some reason I was thinking of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. What do you mean I’m funny. Funny how? I mean, like a clown? I amuse… Read More Franconia Notch – Sept 2025
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle, bicycle, bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bicycle, races are coming your way (Queen) We participated in the Bikes and Beers Hampton bicycle ride, a 15, 30, or… Read More Bikes and Beers Hampton – Aug 2025
I was occasioned the other day to wander through the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, and more specifically in the JP (Jamaica Plain) and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston. If you are not familiar with the term, arboretum is Latin for big ass wooden things with leaves. This place is simply stunning! Think of it as a… Read More Arnold Arboretum – July 2025
It’s been a minute since our last post, but on a recent trip to see friends in Ohio we stopped at Letchworth State Park in New York on our return trip home, and wow, what a find! Like all state parks, this 14,000-acre park, located east of Buffalo, south of Rochester, and a bit west… Read More Letchworth State Park – June 2025
Undoubtedly you are wondering who travels in their camper in the middle of December, just before the holidays? Don’t you have family, friends, former cell-mates, bookies, to spend time with? Of course. That’s why we are traveling, hopefully before any of them realize we are gone. Mum’s the word. We left New Hampshire before the… Read More Head’n West – Dec 2024
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. These words from the iconic poem, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, capture much of the nature of… Read More The Road Not Taken – Dec 2024
Happy Thanksgiving to you! As a family we have had a rich tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving, sometimes in somewhat unconventional ways, places, and circumstances. We have, as a family, celebrated Thanksgiving over the years at home either in Lexington, MA or Marietta, GA, in our trailer at Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas and… Read More Thanksgiving – Nov 2024
As has been tradition (we are not ones to hold with tradition), once again we post a summary of our past summer. Now keep in mind that this is less about informing you as it is in reminding ourselves what we have been up to. Maybe I should do a post on where I left… Read More Summer of ’24 – Sept 2024
Setting out on the Utopia, a small charter boat, we got to visit the newly opened Wood Island Life Saving Station sitting at the mouth of the Piscataqua River and the entrance to the Portsmouth Harbor off Kittery Point, Maine. With Captain Rick (a 26-year Coast Guard retiree) and his able assistant Beatrice, we motored… Read More Wood Island Life Saving Station – Aug 2024
We have now crossed another hurdle in our lives – we participated in a parks and recreation event, replete with bus transportation, and clearly intended for a “mature” crowd; our lives are spiraling before our eyes. We are now the ones on the bus, not the ones watching the bus. We had a fantastic time! … Read More Isles of Shoals – Aug 2024
I had the opportunity on Friday to watch the Tall Ships parade into Portsmouth (NH) Harbor – such a cool event! This was the opening event for the Sail Portsmouth weekend, one of the busiest weekends in Portsmouth for the summer. And Portsmouth is such a cool town. The ships included the US Coast Guard… Read More Tall Ships Parade Portsmouth – July 2024
“The journey is the destination.” (Reverend Niles, from his forthcoming book, Hold My Beer) Wow! It has been 10 years since TravelwiththeSlowskys first posted! Happy Anniversary to us! It was 10 years ago this month that we created our Slowsky travel blog. Our first post was about the Canyonlands National Park (technically, we visited in… Read More Slowsky Blog’s 10th Year Anniversary – July 2024
You can run but you can’t hide. Once again, we have weaseled our way into the lives of good friends and former neighbors for three days of fun and music. We traveled to northwest Pennsylvania in and around the Alleghany National Forest to join friends Kyle and Cherie at their cabin/camp. While we have traveled… Read More Northwestern Pennsylvania – Jun 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
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
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
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
We think nothing of traveling hundreds, if not thousands of miles to see beauty, interesting places, or random quirkiness. Sometimes beauty is right in your back yard, so to speak. This weekend, we walked about ½ mile down North Shore Road (and a little bit of Ancient Highway) towards the beach in our fair town… Read More North Shore Road – May 2022