When life felt a bit too overwhelming and the Delta variant a bit too invasive, we did what works for us and we escaped to the woods.Pulling out our pop-up...
You may recall a deep-well of disappointment I fell into years ago. Gearing up for my 40th birthday, I had one goal. Yet the entire day was fraught with unmet...
Sometimes, I don’t know how travel ideas become part of my daydreams. Sometimes, some trips, feel like they just pop up without warning then consume me until I book them....
The place where towering giants from dreams sway high up in the sky and ferns lifted from a prehistoric jungle fan out lushly at your feet… it’s the Redwoods National...
Years ago now, right before turning 40 (which was fraught, it turns out, with a lot of drama), I decided to donate my hair.I am not sure when the decision...
Mr. Family Trip and I recently celebrated 15 years of marriage. With two kids, four homes, two dogs, one cat, one hamster, two fish, and two states conquered together, we...
Pre-COVID, after uprooting our lives from our dream house near the beach to an older home in the mountains of the Blue Ridge, we decided we wanted to start off...
This was the day it happened: we left Route 1. I would pretend like we were sad or looked back, but Route 1 has a way of beating you down...
Our visit to Mendocino (said Mendo-SCENE-o, not Mendo-CH-ino) was happenstance and one made of necessity. We knew we needed somewhere to stop along California’s coast to break up the drive...
If you follow us on Instagram, you might know that I love Stand Up Paddleboarding, or SUP.When we lived at the beach, I rented a paddleboard with a friend and...