A Family Travel Blog
My 2021 Gift Guide – An Introduction Welcome to the holidays! Throughout the year I’ve kept track of things that I liked so I could include them here. A lot of these are things we stumbled upon, and some are here because the brands reached out to me, wanting to… Read More
The Best Christmas Presents Welcome to my holiday gift guide for another year! Given that we traveled far less than normal because of the pandemic, I have a mix of travel and non-travel items this year. As usual, no one has has paid me to include them on this list,… Read More
Ideas for Travelers Over the course of 2019 I’ve seen a lot of travel-related items – some that I thought were brilliant, and some that I thought were completely unnecessary. The following items are the brilliant ones! Make the traveler in your life happy this year! And of course, you should… Read More
Shopping Online while Traveling We travel…a lot! And we tend to do a lot of online shopping while we travel. I touched on this in my last post – specifically that we always find local foods/ingredients overseas but it’s a hassle to bring everything back, so we place online orders. But there… Read More
A Smart Garage The first time I heard about Wi-Fi, I remember thinking: “I guess it would be nice to be able to send my document wirelessly to a printer in another room.” That was my entire vision of how I thought Wi-Fi would be utilized in the future. And… Read More
My Holiday Gift Guide I had fun creating a gift guide last year, so here’s my 2018 version! As always I have very little financial incentive to recommend anything here. I’ll note when something is an affiliate link. No one has paid to be included here. And yes, there are a… Read More
I just returned from Universal Orlando and was extremely impressed by everything new at the parks! So the timing seems good for a post on all the new Universal rides, and what’s coming up later this year. Two of these technically opened in 2017, but if you haven’t been since… Read More
Having just returned from a quick weekend trip to Chicago with my 10-year-old son, my only thought is: why haven’t we done this before? We had an amazing time exploring the city and soaking up the holiday atmosphere! A Weekend Getaway to Chicago – From Anywhere We left Santa Barbara… Read More
Universal Orlando Holidays We’ve visited Universal Orlando a lot over the past few years – eight times to be exact. We go the first week of September every year, when local schools are in session but our kids haven’t started yet. We’ve also visited in January and in March, and… Read More
