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Ramadan in Cairo
After 8 hours to Rome and another 4 to Cairo, a friendly brown-skinned man met us to take us to baggage claim, looked incredulous when we told...
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spring break in Italy: Rome
It was Saturday, April 6 when we woke up in Rome, and my kind bride had scheduled the most fitting activity I could possibly engage in at...
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spring break in Florence, Tuscany
We arrived by train in Florence and navigated the throngs of tourists toward our AirBnb, a unit requiring climbing several flights of wooden stairs with steep rises....
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Driving to St Andrews
On Tuesday the 5th of July, I walked a mile in the rain to Hertz and rented what was supposed to be an automatic Audi but ended...
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Edinburgh, Scotland
On Monday, we began our second day in Scotland with hopes of touring the Palace of Holyroodhouse, but the Queen was there, meaning no tours were to...
About
I started blogging in 2007 during an Air Force deployment to Iraq and kept at it when I got back. Since then, I’ve written for DadCentric, City Dads Group, Humor Blogs, and other sites. This site is primarily for our family travels and adventures, because I forget stuff if I don’t write it down. Our family trips include 2 girls with a boy in the middle; they’re led by an archeologist-turned-writer/influencer mom and a dad who’s deployed to Iraq twice, visited all 50 United States, run with the…
March’s compilation video shows trips to Savannah, Nashville, Park City, and the kids’ first time in Mexico as we started our spring break at Big Bend National Park:
In April, we continued our spring break, driving 1000 miles and hitting 4 more national parks for 5 total during our 10 days on the road: Big Bend, Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, and Saguaro.
We visited Nashville and Montgomery for weekend trips as well.