Helllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooooo. It's been a bit, hasn't it? Amusingly I had BIG PLANS for blogging a bunch while I was on "maternity leave" from my regular freelance work. I had fond memories of the two big kids sleeping a lot as infants, and I figured I could spend some of that time updating this blog [...]
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Basically conversations with Chris lately have gone something like this: "So I'm thinking we should go to (place name) over Columbus Day weekend." "We're going to Oktoberfest right before that and Venice after, it is too much." "Huh? No, I'm talking about the next Columbus Day. 2018!" " ... seriously?" S [...]
*Yesterday I talked about our experience with Chase Ultimate Rewards points, which can be used for flights, hotels, rental cars, cash back, etc. Today, I want to move on to the hotel cards we're currently c [...]
So first some news: we're coming back to the States in this fall! Christmas in Chicago last year! Today we cashed out our [...]
As you may have noticed, we've been taking it a little easier on weekend trips since we moved into our house -- a combination of having things to do around our house now, and just plain being tired from the holiday season. That said, we've hardly been idle on the trip-planning front. So far we have plans to spend 9 day [...]
One week in the south of France with kids during lavender season
Planning a road trip around the south of France in July? We spent three days in the French Riviera and four in Provence during lavender season, and it was unbelievably gorgeous.
The 12 best day trips from Catania, Sicily
Living near Catania or just making it your home base for a holiday in Sicily? Great news: the world is your oyster. Day trips from Catania can take you to some of the best Sicily has to offer!
Well, at 33 weeks pregnant (read: huh? what? how? AHHHH [...]What I didn't write about in 2018: a day trip to Siena and more!
We're already more than two weeks into January, and I'm realizing there are still adventures from 2018 I haven't written about. Among these were a day trip to Siena during ou [...]
Happy New Year, everyone!* Having looked back over some of our favorite things from last year, I wanted to take a moment to talk about some of the things we're excited abou [...]
We've been planning to go to Caltagirone for quite a while, and on Saturday we finally made it! (As you might recall, the last time didn't exactly work out). Caltagirone is a town about an hour and 20 m [...]
So, yesterday Tuseday our first-ever overnight guest arrived! Our friend Mike (who we stayed with in Naples) is on the island for work, so he is staying with us so we can all hang out. If we haven't scared him off by Friday, his wife is also going to join us and we are go [...]
Picture Frame Hill in Pedara. Just popping by to say hey! We had a busy weekend over here as far as trip planning went after realizing how few options were available in one of our destinations even months out, which prompted some minor panic-booking. I'll get into that some other day though! In the meantim [...]
Unexpected benefits of traveling with young children
Traveling with young children often gets a pretty bad rap. People talk all the time about wanting to do certain types of trips "before we have kids," as if the baby's first cry sounds the death knell for travel ambitions. I sa [...]5 years in Sicily: a dream come true
Note: I started working on this post shortly after leaving Sicily in mid-January, but have been so busy I'm only just finishing it now. Something about three kids, international move, new schools, new house needing lots of work, lots of feel [...]Walking in a winter wonderland: Nendaz, Switzerland, with kids
We spent four days in a gorgeous chalet in the Swiss ski resort town of Nendaz and gave some winter sports a try! We had a little rental car drama (turns out, diesel freezes!) but overall had an amazing time, particularly thanks to the amazing [...]4 days in Puglia with kids:
Alberobello, ZooSafari, Itria Valley, Polignano a Mare & Bari
Hello! It's been a while. I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but it turned out quite a lot of things have been happening in the world lately. You'll [...]A month. Really, since I'm writing this later than I intended, it's actually been more like 32 days of lockdown. More than a month since our kids have left the property. Wow. I will preface this, as usual, with a message for our friends and family: we are healthy, we are safe, we have everything we need. Adding: tha [...]
I would like to note that Chris' preferred title for this post -- just so you know -- is HIGHWAY TO THE RED ZOOOOOOOONE. I told him it only works if you can hear him singing it to the tune of "Danger Zone," so it ended up on the chopping block. Greetings from our apartment in Sicily, which I have left jus [...]
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