traveling with anxiety, traveling with kids

Travel is education. I’m a firm believer in travel as education. By visiting unfamiliar locales, we expand our worldview, we gain different…

Six weeks is a lot of time for self-reflection and lesson learning. Here are 10 things we learned during out adventure abroad!

In March, the husband and I took a much-needed 8 day vacation to Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico as part of a non-simultaneous home…

Sometimes life throws you unexpected curveballs and the second week of our month-long stay in Mexico was a total disaster.

I hope that by sharing our week from hell with you, that you’ll be able to find some humor amidst the annoyances and frustrations. If we had chosen to dwell on the negative, the week would have been even worse. But we chose to focus on gratitude for the things that went well, and had many opportunities to practice patience and fortitude.

As we dove deep into planning our six week European adventure, we talked about all the places we were interested in visiting — for me, Paris is always at the top of the list but not so much for Justin. At the top of his list was London. London is a beautiful city, with a rich (and bloody!) history, full of people who speak English and a theatre scene that can’t be missed. Yet, every time I hear the name of the city, my heart starts to race in a panicky way and my mouth goes a little dry. I haven’t been to London in over a decade, but the last time I went was also one of the worst travel experiences of my life.

One of my goals with this blog is to share the less-than-glamorous aspects of travel. The logistics of planning. The frustrations of…