Today is the last day of our adventure, and we fly home tomorrow from London. I am doing lots of reflecting and reminiscing about all the great experiences we had on this trip…people we met, places we saw, new foods and new adventures taking us out of our rut and onto our own ledge. I … Continue reading What We Are Bringing Home
I can’t believe we only have one week left of this epic adventure. We have so many memories, things to process and reflect on, but my engineering mind says we must start posting more stats and superlatives first. So, here are the second half of the trip stats and superlatives updates. You can find the first … Continue reading Beginning of the End
Most who know me will know that I like a good beer on occasion. So as we traveled the world, I decided to archive my ales. Beer is universal, so I could find a brew on most menus regardless of where we were. Every country has their own “Beer Standards” like Chang in Thailand, Kingfisher … Continue reading Beer around the World
I was excited to see my brother again for the second time on our adventure. He decided to bring our niece, Julia for her first international trip and meet us in Italy. Walker has been a car guy pretty much his whole life so we decided to make a pilgrimage to see one of the … Continue reading Dancing Horses
Sometime during my teenage years my mom started a new Christmas Day tradition of watching the Godfather movies after opening presents while preparing the Christmas night meal. Other families watch basketball or It’s a Wonderful Life, we had the Corleones. So before this last week, most everything I knew about Sicily and Sicilians came from … Continue reading Leave the Gun, Take the Cannolis
I’ve been reading the Hardy Boys series during our trip, and it was no coincidence that there was a mystery waiting for us at Le Fattizze farm in Italy. As we drove near the entrance, we heard a strange sound. It was like a jet airplane, but nothing was in the sky. We slowed the … Continue reading The Secret Track in the Fields
You may have clicked on this because of the title, but to our friends who have been to Croatia, I am upset that you didn’t convince us to come here sooner. And to our friends who haven’t been to Croatia yet, YOU NEED TO GO! I am afraid to tell you how amazing our last few … Continue reading I’m afraid to share this with you
We are officially halfway through our family adventure. As expected, some days we feel we have been gone an eternity and some days it feels like we left just yesterday. We have had some amazing experiences. We have collected memories we will remember forever. We felt we needed to put together a first half superlatives … Continue reading The Glass is Half Full
To me, India is very shocking. I have thought about the best way to describe it and that is the word that I think does it best for me. Where we have been in India is so different from all the other countries we have visited and dramatically different from the U.S. It is very … Continue reading Have Faith
We left Hanoi today and I am a bit sad. Suzanne and I both really enjoyed our time in Vietnam and especially Hanoi. We had low expectations for Vietnam and wondered how we would spend three weeks there. Now we are wondering if we left too soon! It was very authentic and beautiful. It has … Continue reading Hanoi – Beautiful Chaos
Out of our Comfort Zone to Explore the World 