Washington D.C. is the nation’s capital (duh) and as such is home to rich U.S. history, oodles of amazing museums, stunning monuments, and several panda bears (including a new cub who was just born last week!), but being at the bottom of the Boston to NYC to Philly NE Corridor sometimes means the District is overlooked.
I’ll keep this real brief: No child should ever be taken to the city of Las Vegas. I’m as serious about that statement as I am about never hitting on 17 when the Blackjack dealer is showing a 6. Never. Take. A. Kid. To. Vegas. At least not until they’re 28. And even then, wait a few more years.
My idea of a brilliant camping experience is a chilly hotel room with the window open. No one would ever confuse me with an outdoorsman, but this kind of outdoorsman life? This I could get used to.
Located smack dab in the middle of nowhere, Knoebels (actually in Elysburg, Pennsylvania,) is a gem of an amusement park, with no cost to park, no cost to enter, no cost to wander, no cost to marvel at the wooden coasters, to listen to the shrieks of joy coming from every direction, and no cost to dream of an entire meal served on sticks.
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. […]
The Mrs. has offered to pen her first guest post for OWTK. All it took was a 6 year wait and a promise to rub her feet. Not a bad trade. Here she dishes on some ideas for occupying children on a loooooong road trip without using DVD players (shock!) […]
We’re driving away from Paris, half way to Toulouse where we’d sleep before passing up, over, and through the Pyrenees & Andorra, as we hustled back to Barcelona to fly home. I glanced behind me to check on the kids only to discover the Mouse topless in her carseat, still strapped […]
Credit card debt is FUN! No, no it’s not. It sucks eggs. I should know. I’ve had major issues with plastic debt. Ten years ago, I was nearly $20,000 in the red with Discover, American Express, and some random Visa card (probably those predators at Capital One). Even as recently […]
