It’s simple, really. You spend weeks planning and packing and unpacking and repacking, checking and double-checking reservations and bags and items to entertain, and asking and re-asking which movies to bring and snacks to pack and must-have cozy animals to cuddle. And then you load it all up like a jigsaw puzzle, and amazingly, everything... Continue Reading →
The American road trip – beloved pastime of lonely poets, biker tribes, motor home retirees, young couples fresh-faced and in love. But what about that frazzled family with 2.5 children and a closet full of butt wipes? Is this adventure truly for us, the exhausted parents with diaper-wearing, life-sucking tiny humans? It can be. Maybe... Continue Reading →
It is 8:30 in the morning on the second day of our vacation, and I am ready to go home. My children have just shamed me at the hotel's continental breakfast buffet.
“Travel while you’re young…before you have kids.” How many times have we heard this seemingly sage advice handed down from those who've gone before us? We take this simple statement, twist it up a bit in our minds, and assume it to mean, “Only travel while you are young, and do not, for any reason,... Continue Reading →
The Wandering Wirgaus 