As we prepared for our 3-week cross country road trip, connecting the dots between a variety of cities and sights, and calculating the drive times from one hotel to the next, I remained pretty wide open to any idea, pit stop and route. The only spot in the nation where […]
Our epic cross country road trip is just about finished. All that’s left is the crying. We are a bit sad to be at the end but very excited to get back home to our kitties and our own beds. Oh my god I miss my bed. This is been […]
Summer 2015. The summer of a most epic American adventure. The summer of the cross country road trip. The summer of 3 weeks spent in cities, towns, forests, canyons, National Parks, amusement parks, mountains, and lakes; 3 weeks at museums, concerts, baseball games, and zipline courses. The summer of 3200 […]
Much love to for providing me this platform to share a very personal story of how we choose to travel as a family. Please read on! There’s this thing we do when we travel together as a family, only, it’s not really a thing, it’s more a philosophical game plan, […]
Let’s start here. Avoid the $30 parking fees and the tourist spots of Fisherman’s Wharf and The Ferry Building like the plague. Can you deal with that? Can you handle saying ‘no’ when people back home ask you if you went to Fisherman’s Wharf? And they WILL ask. Listen, nobody […]
We’ve already been down the road to the Grand Canyon from the Las Vegas area — back and forth in a day. That drive is doable, of course, but no one would call it ‘easy’ unless they were hopped up on energy drinks or candy bars…or both. Another spectacular natural […]
Tickets for the 126th Annual Rose Parade are now on sale. Yay! But…but you don’t really need tickets to the Rose Parade to attend the Rose Parade. And you don’t need to spend your New Year’s Eve in a tent on the side of a Pasadena road. I’ll tell you […]
We hopped over the Atlantic in the spring and checked off my personal bucket list #1 destination, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The minute we checked our bags at El Prat airport to return home, I started plotting a return visit. The city is everything you’ve ever heard, and about 250% more. […]
