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
If you don’t have an Alde (pronounced Alduh) system, then you will find this post boring and irrelevant, much like those folks who do have an Alde system. The audience for this post? Those three people worldwide who actually know less than I do about the Alde Compact 3020 RV Furnace system. For those owners… Read More Alde Compact 3020 RV Furnace – May 2024
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