Episode 10: Grand Teton National Park
Episode 10: Grand Teton National Park There are moments in life when you question your choices. For example: the first time you find yourself, at sunrise, brushing your teeth beside a horse while a line of forty strangers silently await their turn at a single porta-potty perched in the middle of Grand Teton National Park. […]
Episode 9: Las Catalinas
Episode 9: Las Catalinas Sometimes, I just need to lay around. I love travel, and seeing/exploring new places and things; but every once in a while, I just want to sprawl out on a beach and do absolutely nothing. I can be perfectly content getting to a patch of sand near sunrise, draping a towel over a […]
Episode 8: Crested Butte, 2025
Episode 8: Crested Butte, 2025 Spring Break in Crested Butte, Colorado has become a tradition for our family. We used to go up there whenever we could, which was not very often when the kids were young. Then we went a few times for New Years, which while fun was also inordinately crowded (both the mountain, and […]
Episode 7: New Years in St Johns-January 2025
Episode 7: New Years In St. Johns January 2025 This New Year, we spent a week in St. John, a small, hilly part of the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. My husband and I had been there once before, 9 years ago, as part of a family trip to meet my brother’s fiancé’s family. […]
Episode 6: The Happiest Place on Earth?-October 2024
Episode 6: The Happiest Place on Earth? October 2024 My husband and I both have our individual memories of Disney World, from when we were kids. It was certainly different (way) back then. There were fewer parks, and fewer rides, and more characters walking around. And Disney certainly wasn’t a multi-day extravaganza full of on-site lodging, park hopping, […]
Episode 5: Family Traditions-September 2024
Episode 5: Family Traditions September 2024 Several years ago, I told my husband that we needed more family traditions. Don’t get me wrong, we had long standing traditions with my side of the family, and with my husband’s side of the family; but we didn’t have any real “just us” traditions… something that we created ourselves, […]
August 2024 Episode 4: The Cayman Islands
Episode 4: The Cayman Islands August 2024 I’ve been aware of the Cayman Islands my whole life. Which is much different than knowing the Cayman Islands; up until this summer, I’d never been there. But I’m old enough to instinctively remember the old Cayman Islands jingle from their tourism commercial in the 80s; that one […]
June 2024 Part 2: Spain Will Always Have My Heart
Spain will always have my heart – Part II June 2024 This morning, we woke up at 6am to catch a train from A Coruña to Segovia. Everyone but Henry slept the whole way (and that was because a young girl behind us was watching her iPad, and Henry would trade sleep for screen time […]
July 2024 Part 1: Spain Will Always Have My Heart
Spain will always have my heart July 2024 The place where I truly, TRULY, learned that I loved all things travel was in Spain. When I was a sophomore in college, I had the opportunity to study abroad, in Granada, Spain. That city is a home-away-from-home for me, and I have loved every single time […]
Episode 2-March 2024: Skiing, with Kids
Skiing With The Kids Episode 2: March 2024 Can we talk about skiing? Some people love it, some people hate it, and some people are so worried about falling that they won’t try it. My husband and I reside firmly in the first category. I grew up skiing with my extended family on the East […]