Dear friends of ours introduced us to Martha’s Vineyard a few years ago. As a west coaster, the island always sounded something like a fantasy. Where one would hob knob with the likes of presidential families vacationing in large compounds most of us would never experience. What we discovered was a bucolic island of country roads, […]
Happy Summer! We’ve been playing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains the past two weeks both in the Lake Tahoe Basin and in the Eastern Sierra Mountains near Mammoth. It has me feeling so grateful for this beautiful state of California we call home. I’ve been thinking back to all the hikes we’ve shared through the […]
Lake Tahoe Guide | Summer Edition I was honored to be asked by Ashley, of Hither & Thither to write a piece for her 5 Things Series on Lake Tahoe last winter. And couldn’t be more excited to be back with a complete Summer Guide too! Summer is what first made me fall in love with the Lake Tahoe. […]
This year I’ve been working on a little personal experiment I like to call “Heck Ya!” I have been trying to be more self-aware of when opportunities present themselves, where I would have formerly thought them over, decided how they could or could’t fit into my schedule and generally over-thought all the options. I’m trying […]
One of the things I love to do when staying in hotel while traveling is taking advantage of the classes or activities they may have on site. When we were in Costa Rica, we stayed at Arenas del Mar on the Pacific Coast. The hotel offered tons of on-site activities to choose from. We opted […]
If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that our family loves to hike. At first one might not realize how good it feels to take a walk in the woods. but after doing it so very many times, you become aware of just how powerful it can be. Hiking with our kids […]
We knew going into our stay in Washington D.C. that we wanted to spend a day at Mt. Vernon, home to George Washington. What we didn’t know was that we’d end up taking a 10 mile bike ride out to Virginia to get there! The simple google search tours to mt.vernon yielding bus, boat or bike […]