Travel

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

Shortly after our Iceland trip, we bought an Aliner camper and have taken it out twice since then.  Unfortunately for the blog, camping trips typically do not have enough activities for a write-up.  With that, I’m pleased to announce that Jaime and I took a real trip a few weeks Read more

So Jaime and I were discussing a few months ago how we’d only gone to Canada outside of the US in 2013 and that needed to change.  As I’ve mentioned before, we are both subscribed to a lot of travel newsletters and just as we were thinking about where to Read more

While we haven’t done any major trips since Banff in July, we have gotten out a town several times that we didn’t get a chance to write about. In the interest of keeping this blog up-to-date with all our trips, I thought I’d mention each one with a quick summary. Read more

We have done a couple of road trips since our last post about Istanbul over Thanksgiving, but nothing to really write about.  That all changed when work announced that we would have Friday, July 5th off.  Upon hearing the news, I immediately started chatting with Jaime about going out of Read more

So Jaime and I get a lot of travel newsletters on a regular basis.  We see a lot of great deals and creative itineraries, but never have the availability as the best deals are last minute.  Well thanks to having a combined family Christmas this year, we had Thanksgiving available Read more

So to no one’s surprise, we decided to get Lydia a passport and get her out of the country before her first birthday.  While we had high hopes for her travel gusto, it’s always terrifying for new parents to get on a plane with an infant.  We definitely did not Read more

So we have (relatively) recently started out on perhaps our most important journey. Just a tad over 6 months ago, we welcomed our baby daughter Lydia. And wow, let me tell you what a ride that has been! L’s birth was actually pretty easy…well, if you don’t count the 21 Read more

So, dear readers, as you may have noticed we haven’t added any trip summaries in almost a year.  Rest assured, we haven’t stopped traveling; we’ve just gotten severely behind on our posts because of other exciting life events (house+baby!). Rather than trying to remember all of the details in a Read more