I’ve seen a lot of the West coast, quite a bit of Texas, and having lived in Alabama for close to a year now, a good amount of the South. I had not, however, visited many of the interior states. In order to remedy that, I arranged our Spring Break trip to Nashville and Lexington/Louisville and […]
Pin It
When living near a Space Museum, of course you must take a weekend trip to visit it. The kids were thrilled to explore all of the hands-on exhibits at the Huntsville Space and Rocket Museum and it was stunning, to all of us, just how large the Saturn rockets were. One child inquired if it
Pin ItSpace and Rocket Museum Read More »
When we travel, sometimes the destinations are for all of us, and sometimes they are for one person, or interest group ;), in particular. Honestly, I wasn’t overly excited at the idea of visiting a museum filled with motorcycles, but everyone else was and as long as were were traveling out of our current hometown,
Pin It
Multi day, fly away on a jet plane trips are wonderful. For me, they’re almost essential. However, it isn’t practical to travel abroad often, or take week long trips away from home. Thankfully, it is more than possible to live as a perpetual tourist in your own home town, reaping the benefits of noticing the
Pin ItPhotographer Life: Being a Perpetual Tourist Read More »
A few months ago we took the boys to the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum with friends. It turned out that we were there during the off-season for train rides, but the boys really couldn’t have cared much less. A whole rail yard full of stationary, life-size train cars to look at and climb on?
Pin It
Stay in a private residence when traveling with kids. Hotel living can be simple. There is an ease to knowing that hotel management is available 24 hours a day. However, staying in a private residence is my favorite form of accommodation when traveling with kids. When you rent an apartment or home, you generally have
Pin It7 Tips for Traveling with Kids (and Living to Smile about it) Read More »
Travel. It’s one of those activities that exhausts me from beginning to end, and I question my sanity while planning, traveling and recovering, but for me, a life lived within a radius of a few hundred miles would feel incomplete. Experiences that my family have had traveling have given us a new appreciation for the
Pin It4 Reasons Why I Travel Read More »
When you move frequently, low priced international moving companies become your friends and the definition of home becomes something fluid and amorphous. Not every location that you live in becomes a home, but many do and the traditional definition of a single, solitary place of home is harder to hold on to. My husband and
Pin ItThe Comforts of Home Read More »
They’re beach babies. Give them sand and a stick and they’re happy for hours. Pin It
Pin ItGulf Coast Beach Time Read More »
“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable, and, unreasonable ways.” The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851 New Orleans has a long, long history. The French Quarter was kid friendly at the hours that we were there, but by the time we left around
Pin It
The day after Thanksgiving we packed up the family and headed down to Gulfport Mississippi for a quick weekend getaway. I found the most adorable cottage on Airbnb and, in a small way, it felt like we were back in Europe, traveling and staying in homes. With this Airbnb experience, though, there were no
Pin ItThe Day After Thanksgiving Read More »
Sometimes, when traveling, things don’t go to plan. A toddler might throw a cell phone into the trash in a London apartment, and you might not realize it until you’re in Paris. You might take the wrong metro and have to figure out, via maps in a language other than your own, how to get
During our journey from Sicily to Alabama we spent a few days in Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg was on the plan, and after struggling through the I-64 traffic from Norfolk… holy cow that was no joke… we made it out to the site, slathered on our sunscreen and got ready to brave the heat and humidity.
Colonial Williamsburg Read More »
Over Memorial Day weekend we took the ferry from Messina across to the mainland. Calabria is a lot like Sicily in landscape and is pleasantly quiet and lacking in tourist crowds. We stayed in a lovely villa just above the coast and spent a lot of time feeding children (7 kids! Super fun to travel
In mid December our good friends invited us up to their town to watch part of the celebrations of the festival of St. Lucia, the patron saint of Belpasso. The festivities continued throughout the day, but we watched the portion during which the statue of St. Lucia was moved from inside of the church, to the
Belpasso | Festa di Santa Lucia Read More »
After warming up via nap time at the apartment, it was time to bundle the kids back into their coats and gloves and head out with the goal of the rest of the family seeing the inside of Notre Dame (I had been inside on Christmas Eve.) We had tried a few times before, but the line
So, so cold. The high was 30 degrees and the baby refused to keep his hat or gloves on. We had left the stroller at the apartment in order to avoid lugging it up and down stairs, so we didn’t even have the rain screen as an option to keep him out of the
Adventure. Memory-making. Or, maybe…. freezing off our fingers and noses. That is a succinct explanation of our trip out to Versailles. The high for the day was not much above 30 degrees and there was a biting, strong wind with a steady heavy drizzle. As we got off the train the wind whipped right through our
The day after Christmas we had a tour that promised we would see Paris like a Parisian. We walked through a few less touristy arrondissements and a typical market street. Our guide also took us to a fantastic cafe and a wonderful small cafe/antique shop. Each was only a short stop as the tour
Walk like a Parisian Read More »
After an early breakfast of Kouignettes, eggs and sausages we headed out on the metro to the Paris suburbs to spend Christmas day at Disneyland. It was chilly, but luckily the only rain fell while we were inside of the Small World ride and the boys all had a fantastic day.
Christmas at Disneyland Paris Read More »
On drizzly, chilly Christmas Eve we took the Eurostar from London to Paris. I’ve said it again, and I still wholeheartedly believe it, train travel is where it’s at- especially if you’re bringing along the kids. Traveling under the Channel really was a non-event, but still fun to be able to say that we did.
The day started with a fantastic audio tour of the Westminster Abbey, then a short walk across to Buckingham Palace, a few wishes in the fountain and a walk through Green Park to get to the metro. After nap time we headed out for a reservation at the London Eye. The views that the wheel
Westminster Abbey, Buckingham and the London Eye Read More »
On this day we visited the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and then walked through Hyde Park to visit the Albert Memorial and the geese, ducks and swans, before catching the metro back to our apartment for a nap. Later, we hopped on a double-decker city bus to Regent Street and gave the kids
Museums and Hamleys Read More »
The weekend before Christmas we hopped on a plane (as much as you just ‘hop on a plane’ with three small children…) and headed out for a holiday in London and Paris. I’ll be sharing several posts that explain our travels in images. First up, we have a day walking along the Thames and exploring
Catania to London, then The Tower Read More »
