If this blog had a smell it’d be the library featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – the one in Venice where Indy and Elsa Schneider walk through the web-covered halls of the flooded catacombs covered in dust and rats. Lots and lots of rats. Truth be told, it seemed frivolous to write
It’s hard to ignore the looming shadow of the delta variant casting shade on a summer that once felt rejuvenating. We’re vaccinated so it is admittedly frustrating to see the numbers spike in areas of the country with dismal vaccination rates. Our family is performing the delicate dance of living our lives and performing risk
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
Earlier this year when brainstorming summer travel, Clay suggested the four of us fly to Colorado over July 4th weekend because we could do so without him having to take leave. We quickly landed on Vail as our destination because it was a reasonable distance from the Denver airport and would give us the mountain
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