have kids, will adventure
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
We arrived home late last night from our first big trip since enduring pandemic life, of which felt a little too close to my generation’s beloved Oregon Trail. Sure – we PCS’ed last summer and we’ve taken long weekend trips to Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saugatuck but this one was our first big trip since outfitting
I am Michigan born but not bred. Having parents that hailed from the Great Lakes State ensured that we spent a couple of weeks in Michigan every summer, which was a tall order for the 10 years we lived in Arizona. My mother’s family had a cottage in Glen Arbor and to this day, I’ll
And Then We Laughed 