by Jen Martin | May 11, 2018 | Gear, Mis' Hap (Our Bus), Travel Log, Wildlife Encounters
Crystal Beach is on the Bolivar Peninsula, which is northeast of Galveston. We actually had to take a ferry to get there, but it was really fun, and free! You just drive onto the boat, and then you can get out if you want while it’s taking you across. The...
by Jen Martin | Nov 1, 2017 | Gear, Mis' Hap (Our Bus), National Parks, Travel Log
We’d like to interrupt our regular programming and give a shout out to the zip tie. We’d like to thank the person who invented them. And maybe hug them for a little while. Up the coast we drove, looking for moose all along the way. About an hour from our...
by Jen Martin | Sep 23, 2017 | Mis' Hap (Our Bus), Roadschooling, Travel Log
We were fortunate to find a campground very close to where we had broken down. Actually, the kids ended up liking the place. There were a lot of lawn decorations to take in. We affectionately referred to it as “Shanty Town”. There were some cool flea...
by Jen Martin | Sep 20, 2017 | Mis' Hap (Our Bus), Travel Log
We left New York with me feeling like maybe I had the whole bus thing finally down. Traveling on the weekends, setting up camp, planning our next stop. In other words, feeling good! What could go wrong? It was foggy when we left Cooperstown. But we got a really...
by Jen Martin | Sep 19, 2017 | Mis' Hap (Our Bus), Travel Log
Cooperstown is home to Cooperstown Dreams Park, a huge Little League mecca. We’re not all that into baseball, but we like it enough, and we had fun walking around the park one evening. We also toured a local cider mill, which was fun. After some not-so-subtle...
by Jen Martin | Sep 19, 2017 | Gear, Mis' Hap (Our Bus), Roadschooling, Travel Log
After Hershey Park, we were ready to be on the road again. In my head, New York is New York City. Or maybe Niagara Falls. I forget that there’s a lot more to this state! We wanted to make a quick stop for fuel (haaahahahahahaha), and took a wrong turn. No big...
