Ashley

Picture this: It’s our last night of our four day weekend in Budapest. We’ve walked our legs off, hitting every corner of…

Playa del Carmen was an excellent place to spend a full month. I’m pretty sure some of our friends and family thought we were nuts to spend a month anywhere. So I wanted to share the reasons that my family loved spending four weeks in Playa del Carmen. Here are all of the things we love about Playa del Carmen.

In case you missed any of our blog posts during our awesome six week Eurotrip adventure, you can catch up with this…

What is the Disney DAS Pass? Disney’s Disability Access Service (DAS) program assists visitors who can not wait in a conventional line…

We can easily be blinded by our own expectations, and miss out on some wonderful experiences. Often, people get specific ideas of…

What is home exchange? Will I like swapping my house? You sleep in other people’s beds? And other burning questions you have…

My husband turned 40 at the beginning of 2021, and we had been planning a week at an all-inclusive as a celebration.…

2015 was a fun travel year for us. Though we didn’t hit any international destinations,we still made our way from end of the country to the other…

Where We Stayed: In a small, no-frills AirBNB in a killer location. Ocean Park is far enough of the tourist track to…

#tbt to that time I went to Europe with my dad, my brother and his girlfriend…

There’s something I want to get off my chest. This has been weighing on me for a long time, making me feel guilty…

Can’t afford to go the beach? Turn up the heat and bring the beach to you, instead!

While we were on our honeymoon, staying in the beautiful Kailua Kona on Hawaii, we avoided doing much typically touristy stuff. We decided against the helicopter tour and dolphin experience after reading so many mixed reviews, instead choosing to spend our money on food and drink. Less doing, more vacating. When we did do something touristy, such as drive down to the volcano, we tried to balance it by asking locals where they would go next. We try to live like locals whenever we visit a new place.

The alarm goes off three hours earlier than usual. I slam my hand down on the phone to shut it off. Waking…

I’m an anxious person. Always have been. As a kid, I would stress out over things like talking on the phone (even…

Love affairs can be intense.  They can be fulfilling (in more ways that one), heart-breaking, country-song-inspiring, appetite-suppressing, completely and totally engrossing. Love…

Though I’ve been a few times, LA has never been high on my list of places to go. I don’t remember much…

When Justin’s mom, Rhonda, came to visit, we wanted to play tourists in our own town and show her around a bit, checking out some sites she may not have seen on previous visits. We used my Downtown Walking Tour as a starting point, skipping the places Rhonda had already seen or wouldn’t have interest in, and adding in a couple new spots we had yet to check out.

I’m a big fan of Uber. It’s convenient, keeps me from having to talk on the phone to anyone, makes payment simple.…