Climbing Santa Ana Volcano with kids We recently took a family trip to Santa Ana, El Salvador, and it was an unforgettable experience. This stunning volcano is located in the western part of the country and offers breathtaking views of the surrounding landscape. The journey to the top of Santa Ana volcano is a challenging …
If you’re looking for an amazing Central American country to explore, look no further than Guatemala. This beautiful country is home to awe-inspiring volcanoes, stunning lakes, and colonial towns that will take your breath away. We had the opportunity to visit Guatemala for three months and were blown away by all the incredible things there …
How do you tell the people you know (parents, siblings, co-workers, friends, neighbors…) that you are selling nearly everything you own, packing up some clothes and going to explore the world with no return planned? Did I mention that you are taking 2 kids with you as well?? This was just one of the challenges …
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Have you ever experienced a time when everything seemed to fall into place perfectly? It was my birthday and we had already had a busy day. We had driven scooters to the amazing ruins of My Son in the Vietnam jungle that had been there for centuries and hiked around in the oppressive heat of …
As 2020 comes to a close, we look back and reflect on all that has happened this year. Before we left the States on our journey, we had dreams of writing blogs all the time and keeping up-to-date with our travels and experiences. Then life happened. We realized that working on our marketing business AND spending a …
Sounds Like the Start of A Good Joke: I Met A Chemist… I met a chemist. He was getting ready to retire, After 40 years. I asked him, “How many drugs did you make?” A very naive question looking back now. It was probably days after she had started her career that I asked that …
Sometimes life can be a little surreal. As if what’s going on in other parts of the world is just a made-up TV series. That’s similar to how we felt watching the whole COVID-19 pandemic unfurl. Until, that is, it became very real for us… We had been in Da Nang, Vietnam since late December …
On To Our Next Adventure After leaving Mesa Verde and having an amazing lunch at Tequila’s in Cortez, CO (the best tamale that John has ever had – and that’s saying a LOT!!), we found a park where we could get a signal and got some work done online while Brenna played on the playground, …
Straight Up?? After leaving the awe-inspiring beauty of Valley of the Gods, we again followed Jim’s advice (read more about Jim here) and headed north. What appeared to be a fairly well-maintained dirt road soon gave us a little pause, as we realized that it was headed straight for the sheer cliffs that we had seen …
After getting off the train (see previous post) from our backpacking trip around 6pm in Durango, CO, we opted to pamper ourselves with a dinner out and a hotel room for the night. We were all grateful for the soft beds, the warmth of blankets and the opportunity to recharge all our electronics! We awoke in the …