Two Kids and a Map

We love to travel around our little city and the surrounding area as often as we can. Instead of sitting around the house on a free day, we make a point to hit the road and explore what our city has to offer. Please take a moment to check out my guest post [...]

By Amie O’Shaughnessy of Ciao Bambino
What makes the San Francisco Bay Area so unique is the number of different places you can visit within a relatively short drive. I also love our micro-climates—if you don’t like the weather where you are, just drive 15 minutes and it will change! This is particularly key over the [...]

For the third installment of “Digging into the Archives-Europe 2005,” I would like to share photos that are very special to my family. We visited the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial and the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial on our way to Brussels from Frankfurt.The Luxembourg American Cemetery is located in Hamm, Luxembourg and General [...]

The Talking Trekaroo is a blog maintained by several of the founders of Trekaroo. Trekaroo is this awesome family travel website. It is kind of like a Trip Adviser for families. Recently they opened up the site for reviews in all 50 states. Once each state has enough reviews, they will [...]

Today, April 6, marks my 100th post! When I started this blog, it was to journal about all of the trips that we take as a family. If someone saw it and could benefit, great! If not, I would have a great way to backup photos and memories. Once I started [...]

This is the second post in my series where I will be reminiscing about our 2005 Europe trip. I was so thrilled to come across pictures from the trip on a CD. I thought the pictures had disappeared with our crashed hard drive so I want to share them with you!
There are not too [...]

The first major trip we took as parents was a three week whirlwind vacation in Europe. We landed in Frankfurt and then traveled to the following cities (with other stops along the way) by car or train: Brussels, Belgium; Hamm, Luxembourg; London, England; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Berlin, Germany; and Zermatt, Switzerland. Big S was about 10m [...]