Category: Travel How-To

Well friends, it is hard to believe the summer is almost over! This blog has been a bit silent since our last big adventure abroad as our schedules ramped up – I truly felt that we hit the jackpot on timing with that trip, back in the spring when...

This past month we found ourselves in the midst of a historic blizzard. Any hopes of March 2021 being different from 2020 were dashed – we were back to being trapped at home, working over Zoom from the living room, and scrounging up creative dinners from the pantry. Our...

The last international trip that we took prior to the pandemic was a surprise birthday trip for my dad’s 70th birthday in October, 2019. I had decided a few years ago that I would start saving points and miles to be able to take my parents on a trip...

So we did a thing this weekend: We actually booked a trip for 2021. (More on that later). Is it a hopeless gamble? Will travel in 2021 resume normalcy? I highly doubt it. Vaccines will take a long time to roll out, especially to poorer countries. Masks will probably...

Growing up, my parents hated the stress of arriving to a destination only to discover underwear or other essentials had been left at home…and it is always the underwear that gets left, isn’t it? And underwear can be tricky to find. In an attempt to solve this recurrent problem,...