Plan Travel

Where did we stay, how much did it cost and did we break the bank? After our first 29 nights on the road, we found moving every couple days to be tiring. Moving is a lot of work and so is packing [...]

What makes a great Airbnb with kids? The unqualified answer is it depends. I know that isn’t terribly decisive, but it is true. It really depends on what you are looking for and your goals. [...]

May is always super busy for us.  We have 4 family birthdays, mother’s day, and all the end of school year events, dances, parties, graduation ceremonies, etc.  Plus we squeezed in 2 quick [...]

April we mostly stayed home.  We got some things done around the house.  Pretty uneventful month, except for the fact that we booked our flights to leave the US!  Beyond excited about this, but [...]

March was a rough month.  All of us had the flu.  Patrick developed pneumonia after his flu infection as well.  We have all been coughing and hacking for the entire month.  Seriously people, get [...]

I love to read. I really love to read. I read pretty fast and devour books by the dozens on a regular basis. On a normal one-week beach vacation, I need at least 5 books preferably 10 to just [...]

Things are starting to roll and we are getting ready for our Round the World trip!  In addition to checking things off our list, we met the fabulous Bender Family in Orlando and Keith & [...]

One of my goals for us before we leave for our trip is learning to drive a manual transmission car.  We want to do this for one big reason: In Europe, manual transmission car rentals are the [...]

So today, I dropped my son off a school for a field trip to Washington DC.  We live in Florida, and this field trip lasts for 3 days and 2 nights.  I’m freaking out.  There is a small part of me [...]

This month we got a lot of things done or started. The monthly activities are only going to ramp up from here on out.  It was also a crazy month on the personal side; insane at work, a family [...]