we made a bad mistake very very bad bad mistake tonight days
it's RV like rough yes it's very rough
oh goodness gracious well it was fun times that was fun so we had another slide issue
but this time it was a little bit worse because this time the slide would not
come in this is actually the oldest city park in the united states
so this place is absolutely amazing you know I had no idea when I booked it online
that it was going to be like this but we're right here on the water and the lighthouse that's over
there did you see that it's like right there it's so cool like I was looking out the dinette
window as we were eating lunch and it's like I'm watching the sailboat come in and out on
the water it's just amazing amazing campground so this is going to be a fun four days here
to do public transportation again because it's been so great this whole trip and so this time
it's an actual train train and so we just found out from one of the employees kind of where we
need to be which train we need to go on it's the one thing that's so great i think between google
maps apple maps and then just asking questions of like the actual transportation employees you
can pretty much figure out where that you need to go as far as what train you need to be on or like
if you're on the subways that particular train car is going where you want to so
so we've done anyway
so we learned a little tip today didn't we we did so with the boston subway system
the kids get to come essentially for free with the adult so that saved us on the fair
as far as like the fair amount that we needed to purchase but one thing i think that we've learned
that we learned, unfortunately, our very last day in new york is that if you have any questions like
ask one of the attendants because they know way more about what the options are and even like
I've never been to Italy but like the narrow street like one car going through
the like restaurants that have like extra dining on the street literally
it makes me feel like that's maybe what it's like I don't know you'll have to let me know in the
comments if you've been to Italy if this feels kind of like Italy we're gonna go get some bread
some famous famous italian Italian bread all right oh my gosh oh my gosh this is gonna be amazing
now i know why there was a line out the door it reminds me of when
i was in college and i used to get st trapeze at the lamadeleine in Dallas
this has totally been one of the most fun nights totally like not planned no clue where we're
gonna go just headed down here really on the recommendation of one of the subway employees
and we caught some little baseball and went through the italian section of town this is
just so much fun totally like stumbled upon fun so one of the things i love about this lifestyle
you should never know what's gonna happen you don't know who you're gonna meet you don't know
necessarily how things are gonna always pan out okay so we got locked out we made a bad mistake
very very bad bad mistake tonight and that is i have no key they told me when we checked in
that there was a gate at the campground that would close at 10 o'clock and if
we were going to come back after 10 o'clock that we would need a gate key
and so i'm like no worries i'm sure that we won't be out past 10 o'clock well yeah we're out past
10 o'clock and there's no way to get into the campground so we had to park like half a mile
sorry i'm looking down i'm trying to see where i'm going so to park half a mile
from the campground to find parking that's not just on the side of the road parking illegally
now we're walking back to the campground so we can get back in our rv so word to the wise
they tell you that there's a gate and you don't think you're gonna be out just just
double check you know i mean get the gate key because we should have done so
now we gotta walk half a mile in the dark at least it's a nice night outside of boston here in salem
so
so welcome to Boston common this is actually the oldest city park in
the united states it dates back to the 1600s so what we're going to attempt to do is we're
going to attempt to find something called the freedom trail so what the freedom trail is
is it's marked off in like red it's about two and a half miles long and
it kind of just takes you on a historical walk through different points of history in Boston
so we found it so this is the brick road so people
started calling it the yellow brick road it's not yellow that's right
so we're gonna see how far we can go it's just luck that we'll make it to the end
okay so it's nine o'clock now we're still on the freedom trail but the kids are at a tipping point
so we're gonna have to just call it a night and then we may be able to come pick this up
tomorrow we might not but we know that if we come back to boston which would probably will
at some point because this has been another one of those fun cities that this is something that
we want to do and then some tips for you if you decide that you want to come to this boston area
get maybe a little bit of an earlier start um if you can avoid the weekend before that weekend it
does take you through some very busy areas where there's lots of restaurants and stuff it's a
saturday night here for us and it's been quite the journey just kind of navigating through some of
the crowds because of the restaurants and things that are in some of these areas well i'm going to
put on the massachusetts sticker because i want to and we're in massachusetts but today's our
last day in massachusetts and so we're headed into maine today and then after we get to maine because
we'll have gone through new hampshire we'll have two more states knocked off this particular 40-day
journey and we'll only have one more state that we won't have like been in before and we'll have
all the lower 48 covered except for arkansas so you guys have to let us know in the comments a
lot of you have been letting us know like where in arkansas to go and stuff so keep those coming
because arkansas is going to have to get knocked out at some point but put this on and get packed
up and ready to go but you know what we should show everybody around this campground first yeah
because it's there's pros and cons yeah let's just say there's pros and cons so let's go outside and
we'll talk about the pros and cons of where we've been staying in the last five years of living rv
life we've used a couple of different options for a grill now we started off with a portable coleman
grill that felt pretty cheap and just wasn't the most compact when it came to storing it away then
of course when the blackstone griddle became all the rage we decided to go with one of those too
the only thing is it's pretty large it's heavy and cumbersome to haul around so we decided to
ditch that too and just cook inside well the only problem with that was is we'd be out for an
evening stroll at the campground and the smells of other campers grilling would be filling the
air and it just made ben really really sad so we wanted the option for grilling but didn't want to
have to haul around something heavy then there was something else we love camping at national forests
and state park campgrounds and it's always fun to have a fire and cook some burgers or hot dogs
but have you ever noticed that the grates that they put over most of these fire pits mean that
either your burgers are going to become flame charred or not get enough heat because the great
height isn't adjustable to move food farther away from or closer to the fire this is where
we're super excited when we learned about the ot folding and packable grill now this folding
grill packs up in a super compact bag and stores away in the rv easily and it sets up in minutes
you can use either charcoal or wood to cook out and have that juicy burger brought hot dogs and
much more it comes with a fire safe mat to use on a table top and has been the perfect solution
to our grill dilemma as a side note when we use our oats with charcoal or wood we don't even have
to use lighter fluid but we use our all-natural fire starters instead and with the oats grill you
can adjust the cooktop height to just the perfect height to get the perfect burger or hot dog that's
not well you know like charcoal right now you can save 10 on the ot grill we'll have that below as
well as a link that you can visit to get an ot for yourself so where we've been staying where
we've been in massachusetts is just outside of the boston area now technically the town name is salem
but where we are is in an area called winter island so this is kind of like a little piece
of land that sticks out into the water area it is a state park so pros and cons of this particular
campground is it's reasonable for fees you use reserve america to reserve it because it's part
of the state park system it was 45 a night and it's partial hook up so we had water and electric
now cons there's no dump station on site we were actually going to have to drive off-site to dump
thankfully we learned a little tip so here's a tip if you're boondocking or if you have partial
hookups especially with the family is that the water pressure here was actually fairly poor
and so usually when we put on our water pressure regulator we dial it to the water pressure that we
want well the water pressure here was fairly low already which this was just an accidental thing
we figured out that actually helped with our gray tank space because not having that higher
water pressure meant lower water volume coming out of the sinks when we went to wash hands do
dishes things of that nature and so typically for four night stay like we've been here we would
have already filled up our gray tank by now and needed to go dump but we have not because we've
been using less water not having as much water pressure it's a beautiful view you can watch the
boats there's lots of sailboats that are always going in and out during the day you can go sit
down there's benches over by there's a lighthouse the tide is really high coming in and out and
so there's lots of tide pools to be explored lots of oysters to be seen lots of beautiful
nature to be able to walk around and even just spend the day here at the state park so that's
definitely a pro to staying here we'll put a link in the description below for this particular
park if you're interested the other thing is that it's really easy to get in and out of boston so
two miles from here is a commuter train and we took that to boston and then back and that was
a really fun experience very inexpensive it was 16 for all four of us to ride the train
down into boston and then back up to salem so we drove our jeep over there but it's two miles
easily bikeable if you have a bicycle the cabs also in salem it's flat six dollars wherever
you wanna go so if you come here you don't have a tow vehicle you can just catch a cab for six bucks
anywhere in salem that you want to go oh goodness gracious well it was fun times that was fun so
we had another slide issue but this time it was a little bit worse because this time the slide
would not come in so we had to go let the office know that we're going to be a little bit and so we
got to learn how to manually bring our slides in oh is it even something yep and it's actually
not that hard it's not as intimidating as as it was it was initially so where are we right now
we are at the it's called the sx um waste disposal center and that's
near the state park where they have you dump they gave us a voucher to get a free dump
and so we're gonna go dumb you're gonna take your free dump yep let's go take our freedom
thanking the kids fertility because you know how they are with eating what the rest of us eat
but i'm super excited because you're gonna give me bacon in years past if we had been at a campground
like this like right now none of our internets are working but starling kiss it's really good
i'm super excited about and i just did a speed test here 35 megs down and five up there you go so
that's enough to uh keep us going anyway yeah so and without it i mean we would have
been kind of hurting for oh my gosh internet against music well and speaking of hurting
so the bedroom slide is officially broken as far as the power port so i was able to order the parts
that i think that we need because we're in bar harbor which is so remote there's no way that
they would get here before we leave so they'll be waiting for us in vermont after we're done
here but tomorrow's acadia i'm excited about that it's supposed to be an amazing national park we've
never been but we have to get up early because our timed entry they're on time to entry right now is
between 7 and 7 30 in the morning and then lobster oh yeah and we found a couple places that were
the parking lot was packed and that's good but the ladies up at the front desk i gave you some
names of some different places that the locals go so there's two different ones we need to scope out
and we'll let you know which one's better you think we're gonna go twice yes i what do you
think alaska uh sure just bring me back some bacon we'll go where the locals go because we've learned
ask a local they know the best ones all right would you make us this is chicken this is
mine yours is over there chicken chicken bread broccoli have some apples over here
put these over here okay kids are at the park which is like literally yeah i can see them out
the window dinner by ourselves here and some quietness and cheers cheers really
she's a little bit worried about the travel day it's definitely feeling a little bit unrest
just trying to calm her down what's your favorite part of this city
right here baby this is local right here this is live right now on youtube i'll ask you boys
all right so we walked back to this little place that we found our first night here so
good and it's not far off the freedom trail so well it's not on the freedom trail we did want
to take a little detour because we had to come back to this place it was so amazing so we're
gonna go get our pastries i'm just gonna take them with us so that we can keep walking on
the freedom trail because it's starting to get a little bit late eight o'clock and i have no clue
how much longer we have left on the trail so far it's been very clearly marked very
easy to find so we'll hope that it continues to be that and we can make it there before
i don't know it's too dark i mean i think it'll be fine even after but you know just before that
always coffee first having to use a shower house
put on our water pressure regularly or I can't talk regularly
sinking into the harbor never to be seen again