Category: Family vacation
-
Roses, España
Roses is a city on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, Spain. It’s name derives partially from the Ancient Greek colony, Rhode (named by explorers from Marseille) founded here sometime between the 8th and 5th centuries BCE among the furthest west of the empire. The Romans came along and eventually threw out the Greeks, then the…
-
Paris 2025
We returned to Paris this summer to visit our friend Maisie and her daughter Lucy. It’s been more than two years since our last visit, during my sabbatical. Catching up with these two was the primary reason for the visit. Lucy is a few months younger than László, and Danielle and Maisie are both writers,…
-
Memorial Day 2025: Northern Door County
This year, the Harms Boone family annual Memorial Day camping adventure took us to Lake Michigan, somehow for the first time. We’ve had a strong preference for Lake Superior and crossing state lines in the past, so we changed it up and stayed within the boundaries of Wisconsin this time. We stayed at Wagon Trail…
-
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
This year marks our second in a hopefully-annual tradition of camping in the north country over Memorial Day weekend. Last year we were in the Porcupine Mountains of Upper Michigan, the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, and Madeline Island. This year as we charted our trip, we knew we’d end in Cornucopia on the weekend, but…
-
FIBArk 2021 and the cautious return of group fun
This post is a bit late in the game. FIBArk was back in late June but I didn’t get around to finishing this until now. Danielle and László got to go to FIBArk 2019. It was a bit by accident, Nancy was in town for a bit and they decided to go down to Salida…