Now that we settled at Carlisle Barracks and have traded the chaos of PCSing for the relentless schedule of school, work, and extracurricular activities, we’re reflecting more than ever on our transformative experience of whitewater rafting and camping in Idaho on the Salmon River earlier this summer. Admittedly, our trip didn’t get off to the
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10 years ago if you would’ve told us that we’d be considered a Disney Family, we would’ve scoffed at the idea of willingly forking over thousands of dollars to spend time in an artificial world that is seemingly designed to cater to a specific type of traveler who doesn’t value spontaneity, solitude, or adventure. Clay
Despite Journalism 101 instructing me to always write the headline last, the title of this post was the first thing to fill the blank page this morning. Obviously – I had the chorus of The Final Countdown by Europe on loop in my head and because I’m married to someone who grew up a Detroit Pistons during
A handful of years ago we created a travel bucket list with one simple rule – an item can only be crossed-off if the four of us experience it together. Our goal is to accomplish as much as we can before our not-so-little birds leave the nest. While we’ve been able to accomplish some of
We are no strangers to long road trips. The Army has criss-crossed us across multiple regions in the United States for almost 17 years and we’ve taken many road trips as vacations over the years – sometimes out of financial necessity and other times for the sake of the journey. When we were younger, our