Dadcation
We arrived at the Milan train station at 7am and arrived in Venice just before 10. I couldn’t wait to lead my family out of the train station and toward the Grand Canal where we could stand and look across the water at the most beautiful city I’ve ever visited. “Wow!” the children exclaimed, almost in unison. I was back in Venice, 19 years after I’d come during summer term in law school. We checked into our AirBnB, a 2-story townhouse of sorts featuring a rooftop deck overlooking…
The children’s Christmas present this year was our first international Spring Break; we landed on April Fools Day in Milan and dropped off our bags at our AirBnB by the Galleria del Corso before walking 500 feet to the beautiful Milan Cathedral. We’d pre-booked tickets to explore the inside of the Duomo and climb to the terrazze on its roof, which offered not only awesome vies of the cathedral, but of the entire city of Milan. When we came down, I couldn’t resist the urge to walk into…
Last Summer, we flew into Denver for over a week of exploring the national parks in Colorado; I wrote a partnered post with Hanes but never fully described the “rest” of the story, so here it is. After we landed, we headed south toward Great Sand Dunes National Park, which shouldn’t have been too bad of a drive on I-25, (about 3.5 hours), but there were wildfires west of us that covered the roads with thick smoke, and before we’d gone too far, we saw signs indicating road…
I was excited to go to my 4th Mom 2.0 this year for several reasons: 1) I hadn’t been to Austin since 2012 (the first Dad 2.0), and I’d read there are several great speakeasies and dive bars that commanded my attention. 2) my bride had never been, and I’ve been telling her she should go for nearly a decade3) the speakers they secure for the keynotes and instructional sessions are better than I see at any other conference in this space (and I’ve been to nearly 20…