It’s only been four years, and what started out as a catch-all blog for my various travels and projects has turned into a full-fledged family travel blog now. I figured, it’s here, it’s pretty, why not use it to document our International Baby and his adventures in the Kelty Backpack Carrier? Traveling to Italy came [...]
It took me a very long time to edit these photos for this blog post. I had actually gone through and selected almost 200 pictures and had edited/resized half of them when I gave up. I was frustrated with how terrible they were turning out -- as I told Kathleen on the phone the other [...]
I think the Thanksgiving episode of Bob's Burgers summed it up best: Belgium was a pretty big relief from France. The weather was cooler, the people were friendlier, and the general attitude was less frenzied. I talked in my last post about how I'd been looking forward to Switzerland, and how I was heartbroken when we had [...]
This post needs two disclaimers. First: France was not our original plan. Until about two weeks before our departure in May, the plan had been to take the train from Kaiserslautern to Thun, Switzerland. We'd even booked a gorgeous BnB there. When we went to book train tickets, we realized just how expensive it is to [...]
I was very excited to go to Germany. As sad as I was to turn in our rental car on our last day in England, it was also a relief to take a break from the stress of driving (in a foreign country, on the other side of the road) and rely on public transportation (or [...]
For today, we are resuming on 21 June 2015, the day we bid adieu to Scotland and made our way to Newcastle. This aspect of the trip was a little bit of a bust; we had planned most of that day around going to Washington Old Hall, because our dad is a big George Washington [...]
First things first: WE BOUGHT A NEW HOUSE! We closed at the end of September, cleaned and repainted the interior by ourselves, and then moved in the middle of October. I haven't even opened my laptop since my last travel post, so... that is my excuse for not posting in so long. For now, let's [...]
After four relaxing days spent in Wales, we hit the road again, this time for the Pennines and Bronte country. We had debated at length during planning about trying to stay in Liverpool for one or two nights, but ultimately the cost of accommodations kept us from doing that. Liverpool also ended up being one of [...]
I wish I had saved some of the email and text exchanges I had with Kathleen during the final stages of planning this trip. I had narrowed down BnB options and was running them by her so she could have the final say, but most of her replies consisted of: "Wales? Why?" She wasn't being [...]
Our trip continued from Iceland to England on 03 June, with a comparatively short flight from Reykjavik to London Heathrow. We had purposefully booked a late flight, having planned to do the Blue Lagoon in the first half of the day, but that plan backfired spectacularly. At least we had our first glance of London and [...]
You, Me, and Ollie! 