I’m making a bold claim here, but along with Scotland, Spain is one of my all-time favorite countries to road trip. Stunning scenery and excellent highway infrastructure make for smooth and eye-popping rides. And this (in a small rental car) is how we traversed from …
“Yeah, I’m planning a solo trip to Spain next May for two weeks- I really want to just see the world and visit where our family is from. Do you have any recommendations?” My brother asked over a whisky one cold February night in San …
In between a two-week December stint for work in Florida, Juliette joined me over a weekend for some fun theme park action at Universal Studios and Disney Magic Kingdom. While we love a good adventure, there’s still something to be said about knowing exactly what …
We were greeted with a beautiful, sunny, crisp morning on the last day of November, leaving us with one more day in Lisbon. Having had such a productive first day, we relished the opportunity to take the day at a slower pace, finding new neighborhoods …
Let’s start with a quick word association game: vibrant, joyful, classy, delicious; all words we would use to describe our several days in the southern region of Portugal. You could argue that we came for the history and culture, but would have stayed for the …
Most of our vacations [see: adventures] involve a lot of hustle. Two nights here, a quick day trip there, a full day day of travel lost just getting to and from… so for summer 2018 we decided to mix it up and try something completely …
It’s always fun to look back and count the activities- being an excel nerd, it gives me more satisfaction than it should! Here’s a collection of numbers, data, and facts which help illustrate how our time in Europe was spent: **Methods of Transportation included: foot, …
I’ll jump straight to the chase; I may or may not have eaten reindeer. (Don’t lie, you all know you’ve been wondering). But I find this safe to disclose now that Christmas is over. Also, note that it didn’t make our top 5 meals. That …
Ah, Switzerland, the land of mountains of and cheese. (and apparently, well-deserved stereotypes as you will read below). But oh so much more than that. In Switzerland, we found incredible dynamic and range for such a small country: friendly people, interesting culture, many spoken languages, …
Having been very impressed with Lucerne, we were very excited to see what other delightful landscapes Switzerland had to offer. Of course, this meant making it out to the magnificent Swiss Alps sooner or later. So the next four days were a mix of trains, …