Europe Spring Break – Paris

Notre Dame Cathedral Paris Getting to Paris Today we woke up early and headed back to the train station to catch our train to Paris. Once again, we got four seats facing each other with a table [...]

Getting to Amsterdam Today we woke up earlier than the previous days; we had a train to catch. I had booked our train tickets from the US and printed the tickets. We just had to show up and get [...]

The first stop on our Europe spring break trip was in Belgium.  We visited Brussels and Bruges over the a 3 day period. Where we stayed in Brussels We stayed at the Novotel Brussels Centre Tour [...]

October Update: October was a clean out month for us.  We took 3 mini-van loads of stuff to goodwill and 6 boxes of books to our public library store.  We have friends coming to stay for the New [...]

We decided to go for Europe for our Spring break back in March. There were a couple big factors that played into this decision. First, we really liked the idea of doing a trial run of going to a [...]

One of our goals for the trip is to stay on budget and to do this travel as affordable as possible. This means cooking most of our meals while we are on the road. As we have stayed in rental [...]

Flying with kids is always a challenge. We have flown with our boys a fair amount over the years. We have taken short 50 minute flights and long 12 hour flights. Here are a few of our tips for [...]

I have been thinking about packing and packing light for this trip.  Every time I think of something for the list, I ask myself, do we really need this and can we do without it.  Sadly, the list [...]

About 10+ years ago, I read a book called One Year Off. The idea of traveling always appealed to me, but I was intrigued of the concept of a family taking a break for a year of everyday life to [...]

In all of our reading, we have seen terrific things that other families have done. Some are terribly expensive, some just seem really wonderful. We want to do memorable things that the whole [...]