Category Archives: road trip

On the way home, we stopped at the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford.  The kids loved it.  Well worth a stop.

Mystic itself was nice.  A walkable community on the water.

We checked out Mystic Seaport, a “living history museum.”  Enjoyable for kids and adults.

So we decided to take advantage of the long July 4th weekend and take a road trip to Mystic, Ct.  On the way there, we stopped at the Yale University Art Museum in New Haven. Highly recommended.  Very family-friendly.

We recently checked out a new museum that opened in New York City called the Museum of Math (or, for the cool kids, MoMath). It’s only been open for a few months, but it sounded interesting enough to build a … Continue reading →

(Read about Parts 1 and 2 of our trip.) I was blown away by the Smith College Museum of Art.  We could have easily spent two hours on just the top two floors of this museum alone. They have a … Continue reading →

(The first part of our trip is here.) Northampton, MA was the next stop on our trip.  It’s a funky little college town about 15 miles north of Springfield. On the way, we learned that Holyoke, MA is where volleyball … Continue reading →

What a better way to end the summer than with a trip to Western Massachusetts? We managed to check out Naumkeg, grabbed a nosh and a stroll around Northampton, and visited the Smith College Museum of Art and the Eric … Continue reading →