Ron

This trip started like many of our trips do — by finding a deal we couldn’t pass up. I visited Prague as part of a backpacking trip in college and loved it. As soon as we saw a deal for flights and hotel for $500, we just picked a weekend Read more…

We don’t usually travel far for Thanksgiving, but with Lydia in public school now where she gets off the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we knew we had to plan a trip!  Jaime’s dad loves visiting Paris so that came up as an early front-runner.  We wanted to ride the Chunnel (train Read more…

Before I jump into our most recent trip, I realized that I skipped one.  Over the holidays we went to Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle.  We spent Christmas in Vancouver, which was new to us, and we loved how close it was to the mountains.  We did a fair amount of Read more…

This trip was a bit less planned, at least strategically, than our usual trips.  It all started with a flight alert I received for round trip to Copenhagen for $450.  We had to jump on it but rather than end back up in Copenhagen, we decided to search for return Read more…

Cuba has been on our list for a long time, both for its history and mystic as a closed (to us) country.  I’ve heard and read stories about people getting there easily via Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean but then you’d have to lie on your return immigration forms and Read more…

Jaime’s extended family has a reunion every other year hosted by a different branch of the family tree in a different part of the country.  This year it was hosted at the campground in West Yellowstone, Montana, just outside of Yellowstone National Park.  We originally planned to drive out with Read more…

So Jaime had a week of vacation carried over from last year that she had to use or lose by the end of March.  Clearly that meant we needed to leave the country.  Because of how well the kids did in South America due to similar times we were looking Read more…

I’ve always wanted to go to Easter Island growing up because of the mystic and mystery surrounding the moai statues.  My in-laws were originally planning a trip to South Africa but weren’t very excited about it.  After thinking through all of their previous travels, they decided to revisit Easter Island, Read more…

This trip began like so many of our trips do lately — with a deal I saw in a newsletter.  In this case, it was $599 for a 7 night cruise, including unlimited alcohol and both kids were free.  We had been planning to do an Alaskan cruise for a Read more…

While these cities could be done on the same trip, and it sounds like something we’d normally do, they were actually separate trips.  Yes, I’m playing catch-up on smaller trips again! Maine We went to Maine to visit relatives over Labor Day last year.  We love Maine and try to Read more…