If you’ve followed Mom With A Map prior to our boating adventure, you’ll know that we love a good travel bucket list. We’ve extensively explored our home state of North Carolina. (I even published my list that you can check out here: NC Bucket List For Families) We love the diversity of destinations our state…

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The Time It started raining and never stopped

I think my kids will forever tell stories of boat life that start out “so there was this one time in June when it started raining and never stopped.” Just to recap, we moved onto our boat full time on May 15th. We began traveling north on the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) on June 1st. And…

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It would be fair to assume I’m completely biased to North Carolina because I live here. And to some degree, you’re probably correct. However, I can assure you that the state has ALWAYS had a special piece of my heart. The activities on my North Carolina bucket list are crazy diverse! The state has so…

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There is no small town in America more beloved than Mayberry, North Carolina. Ironically, the town doesn’t actually exist- at least not as “Mayberry.” Writers of the popular ’60’s TV sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show, created the fictional community. However, it was based on the real life hometown of Andy Griffith- Mt. Airy, North Carolina. Mt.…

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*Treehouse Vineyards hosted our family camping experience. When I was little I had a huge imagination and big sense of adventure. My favorite books involved children living in unique places such as in an old boxcar train. Or surviving on their own in the woods after building some type of shelter. They lived off the…

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