Plan Travel

This month, we did a lot of preparing for Christmas and our visitors over the holidays.  Fortunately, preparing for the holidays always involves a lot of cleaning and this was a good opportunity [...]

We had a ton of people read our last post on how much our trip will cost. It seems to have hit a real nerve. I got a couple emails / comments about how much money it was and it would never be [...]

People keep asking me, How can you afford to do this?  How much is this trip going to cost?  Budgeting for a one week trip is hard. Budgeting for a 2+ year trip is impossible. It took me a while [...]

All the luggage from our European Cruise I always want to be one of those people who is packed up and ready days before we need to leave for any trip. I make lists and mentally plan what clothes [...]

Three SIM My family recently went on a European Cruise. We were going to visit Spain, Italy, and France. We wanted to have data to use Google Maps to navigate and for our larger group of 7 to [...]

This month, we visited Keith’s family and Universal Studios.  We also went to Barcelona, Naples, Rome, Lucca, Pisa, Cannes, and Mallorca over Thanksgiving.  Since it was a busy travel month [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]