All hail the Girl Scouts! Tween Traveler headed off on a two-night camping adventure with her troop trip in early June, leaving Rich and I free to take our own 36-hour kid-free vacation. This year we chose Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Barely two hours from New York City (if you’re up …

Our only kid-free parent getaway so far was to Montreal for my 40th birthday. My memories aren’t of Montreal so much as of what we were able to do without a child tagging along: We went barhopping one night and spent three hours eating dinner the next. We took a …