In the last 8 years, we have written approximately 50 blog posts highlighting all of Maine’s State Parks, some of the Public Lands or Historic Sites, and lessons we’ve learned along the way. It’s always personal when you put your feelings and family experiences on paper, but this one hits different. This time we took our favorite people on earth to our favorite place on earth. The Allagash Wilderness Waterway. It was almost like everything we have done has led…
We certainly aren’t experts, no one really is an expert in the outdoors. Mostly it comes down to experience; the mistakes you’ve made or crazy stuff you’ve been through over the years, which in turn you learn from. You can take all the classes you want and collect those coveted certifications but it comes down to silly battle scars. Our first visit to the infamous Cathedral Pines gave us our official “rain patch.” We’ve been through loads of rain over…
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves; we are the Rubys of ‘Rubys on the Road’. The blog posts will be slowly coming back after about an 18 months hiatus. Did we stop doing what we do? Nope. Did we just run out of free time to write about them? Yup. We aren’t big on social media but we tried to keep that updated with most of our Maine adventures, but finding time to write and publish posts has been on the…
We made our courageous return to Rangeley Lake State Park. This post should probably replace our original post. With or without kids, you only can control what you can control. Whether it’s the weather or a head cold, often you realize the minute you step outside, you are just a drop in the bucket and it can be humbling. It wasn’t the first time in which we were shown where we fall in the universe, everyone is reminded of this…
We have never taken our kids on a plane and they’ve never spent a night in a hotel or motel. Many times people say how do you guys do it, when it comes to all the camping trips and visiting 30 plus state parks across Maine. But what they don’t realize is that they do things with their kids that we have never done with ours or we are nervous of trying. Things that aren’t a big deal for us…
The Moosehead Lake region is one part of Maine that we haven’t spent a lot of time in as a family. It might sound crazy to some but Maine can be overwhelming at times with its size and beauty. You can’t see and do it all, especially with full time jobs that have nothing to do with camping, hiking and sightseeing. It’s just far enough from Portland that day trips are tricky with little kids and with no real connections…
If you read nothing else: We highly recommend that you visit Warren Island State Park. A day trip would be nice but camping here is a must! Warren Island State Park is in fact an island off the coast of Lincolnville, near Camden. No one is trying to trick you with the name, but it seems that people tend to think there is a bridge that might connect you or a ferry to directly transport you. Like many islands in…
We lumped Baxter State Park into our running list of camping trips because why not? “Why not” actually became the theme of the weekend because when you’re doing any type of wilderness camping, “who cares” and “you might as well” is the best mindset. Special guests, Memere and Pepere joined our traveling circus on this one! Just because “state park” is in its title, Baxter is not considered one of the 12 family campgrounds operated by Maine’s Bureau of Parks…
Roque Bluffs might have the title for the coolest state park name here in Maine. Most people, even many Mainers, say “what and where is that?” For the longest time we called this Rogue Bluff until finally we realized it was a Q in Roque and not a G. If you’ve been following along for a while, you might be wondering why we haven’t visited this state park after multiple trips over the years to the downeast region. Our goal…
We are planners, but we did not plan for this. No, we’re not talking about #2 (Adeline), who was a surprise, we’re talking about this most recent trip to Mt. Blue State Park. About Adeline though, once the shock and excitement cleared the room, we realized how big of a change this would be, a good change. Having a baby mid-May threw a wrench in something silly like camping season. We always preach start early but how early is too…