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, […]
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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?
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Over Christmas break my brother and I set a photography date. He has just recently (within the past 7 months) started shooting on manual mode and I’m so impressed with his photography. Apparently, I’m thoroughly accustomed to warmer climates and didn’t even consider the need to pack extra layers for sunset, on top of a hill
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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
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They’re beach babies. Give them sand and a stick and they’re happy for hours. Pin It
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“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
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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
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Y’all. There are a lot more creepy crawly things in the South than there are in the Pacific Northwest. And, they tend to be bigger and meaner. (Or tiny and horrible, in the case of fire ants.) We’re used to leisurely traipsing through the woods, not being too cautious about where we put our feet
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I remember that sensation. The cool, prickly, tingle as bare feet sink slightly into morning chilled sand. The breeze ruffling hair and swirling around knees. My childhood contained many happy memories set at tide pools like this. The Oregon coast is a very different experience from the beaches of Sicily, but oh so beautiful in
You never know what you’ll end up with, in terms of weather, on the Oregon coast. It could be early spring- sunny and lightly breezy, or it could be the middle of the summer- chilly and windy. Luckily, most of the time we spent at Lincoln City was beautiful. Highs in the 70s, with
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While we were in Oregon, my parents, brother and our family all spent a few days in Lincoln City, on the Oregon coast. On the way to the coast we stopped at Evergreen Aviation and Space museum in Mcminnville. I’d never been, but had been wanting to see the Spruce Goose for years and the huge
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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.
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Early in the week that we left Sicily the kids and I ventured out with our friends for one last day on the beach. My heart both warms and aches as I look at these images. Sicily, we miss you.
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Did you know that donkeys are kept as milk animals? Neither did I! These sweet animals were so content and kindly tolerated the attention of over 30 toddlers and preschoolers. The geese on the farm were quite a bit less pleased with our presence. The preschooler of my pair was all set to ride the
The amusement park near where we lived is extremely clean, well-maintained and uncrowded. This was our second visit with the kiddos and the airplanes were the biggest hit, once again. We allowed our oldest to ride the large roller coaster that goes upside down and he was excited, but nervous. Then he rode it, and
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
Talk about stunning scenery. I had high hopes of returning to this amazing beach at least once more, but the major highway connecting East Sicily to West Sicily has been shut down, with an hour+ detour put in place, and an estimate of months- to years!- for repair. It looks as though San Vito
Last July, when we visited Erice for the first time, I remember that it was cooler up on the mountaintop than it had been down at sea level in Trapani. When we visited this time, in early April, it was also colder up at the top. Super cold, actually. The clouds were briskly blowing across
We spent a few days on the West side of Sicily, exploring Trapani, Marsala, Erice and Palermo from a home base of a hillside villa. These images capture some of the moments at home, which included a stomach bug for two of the boys. Yikes. I have a new appreciate for washers and dryers as
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Taormina is one of our favorite destinations on the island. I’m trying to capture the details, now. The little things that make Sicily unique.
This was our first visit to Noto, another Unesco World Heritage Site here in Sicily. The buildings and wide open streets in the historic area were beautiful and we were able to take a brief guided tour to the top of one of the churches that offered an expansive view of the surrounding area.
On the last day of the trip we walked up into the narrow pathways of Atrani towards Ravello. A small storm had rolled through giving the water a little more movement than we had seen on previous days. Wild broccoli was growing on the side of the path, along with mint and some other herbs. I
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