travel

  • Augusta Canal National Heritage Area

    Fun fact: the Augusta Canal is a partner of the National Park Service. The Discovery Center also has a passport stamp not listed in the NPS Passport. I’m really glad I convinced Mac to visit before we moved. I would have been devastated (okay, slight exaggeration) if I had missed out on a stamp so…

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  • Fort Sumter National Historic Site

    We headed back to Charleston over Presidents’ Day weekend and visited Fort Sumter again. I have to say that the weather in February is a lot more pleasant than going in June. Address and location Fort Sumter is located on an island in Charleston Harbor. You must purchase a ticket on the NPS-operated ferry to…

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  • Fort Pulaski National Monument

    In our quest to visit (and get stamps from) every National Park Service property, we headed back to Fort Pulaski. We first visited when we went on vacation to Savannah in 2013. Address and Location Fort Pulaski sits about ten miles outside of Savannah on Cockspur Island. You reach it from US 80, and you…

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  • My packing list for Europe in winter

    I joke that I’m a weather chameleon and like to think that I adapt to the weather where I live because I move so much. Since we’re back in the land of 90+ degree summers, I worried that I wouldn’t be able to handle the cold of a European December. So creating a packing list…

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