Travel

A few years ago we started taking a trip over Thanksgiving because we only have to use a few vacation days for a full-week trip. This year we didn’t know where we wanted to go until we decided to make it a “catch up” trip, meaning to close the country Read more

So we had always imagined taking 2-3 weeks and doing Australia and New Zealand in one big trip, mainly because of cost and time to get there. Well, we came across an amazing deal (as a lot of our trip stories begin) and couldn’t pass it up even though we Read more

For Spring Break this year, we didn’t have anywhere in mind, and it was going to be shorter than usual because Jaime had to work on that Monday. We used the great open-ended searching of Google Flights and landed on Ecuador because it was the cheapest international flight outside of Read more

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