Pre-Trip

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 [...]

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 [...]

Every month, I’ll publish our To Do list for the trip and you can see the progress from month to month.  I hope this will also help keep us on track so we aren’t doing everything at [...]

So when Nicole first mentioned this idea to me over 10 years ago, I wasn’t even sure it was something I wanted to do, but back then it was “just another idea”. As the years went [...]

I wanted to write down a few of my goals for the trip.  I want to keep myself honest and on track for these goals.  Also, I think at the end of the trip it will be nice to reflect on these goals [...]