One of the first questions people ask when they learn I am embarking on this adventure is, “Who are you doing it with?” I have always either traveled with family or friends, or I’ve traveled to visit family or friends.…
Hiking the Portuguese Camino – September 2026
Hi everyone! This is Kathrin. Recently, I said YES! I said yes to doing something exclusively for myself! This September I will embark on a 3-week 300-mile adventure hiking the Portuguese Camino di Santiago, and I couldn’t be more excited.…
“Remember That Time When They Almost Didn’t Let us on the Plane…”
So, apparently even when you’ve schlepped your kids around to 35+ countries, that doesn’t even begin to mean that you know a little something about traveling with kids. Yes, we got cocky. We thought that by having traveled as much…
Enjoying Great Aunt Tante Inge in Dresden, Germany
We planned our route in Europe to be in Dresden Germany to spend the week visiting my great aunt for the week of her 85th birthday. We had a lovely week exploring all that Dresden had to offer, including many…
Crazy King Ludwig II’s Neuschwanstein Castle
We had a lovely day at Neuschwanstein Castle today. I have always admired the castle and even tried to work it in to several different visits to Europe but it hasn’t happened. Until today. This trip, we actually scheduled a…
Bruce’s “10 Reasons NOT to take your Kids Around the World”
I often see blog posts by fellow travelers that inspired and move me. And some days it just so happens to be on a day when I’ve woken up thinking “What the heck are we doing?” This is the…
The Perfect Picnic, France
Today was one of those magical fill-me-up types of days. Waking up under my fluffy down comforter to the sound of the local church bells ringing 7 o’clock, I turned over and went back to sleep for a bit before…
The House of Slaves, Goree Island, Dakar
Goree Island is home to the infamous door which sent millions of black Africans from their homes into slavery to the Americas. The small, beautiful island of Goree just off the west coast of Senegal, Africa was a main shipping…
Apartheid is exactly where it belongs – in a museum.
South Africa has a good museum teaching us about the ugly history that is apartheid. The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg is a moving and thorough lesson in the history of South Africa, the apartheid movement, and the journey back to…
Snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, Heron Island
Our few days on Heron Island started out rough. Boarding the Heron Islander at 11am, we snagged some seats in front of the big windows at the picturesque front part of the boat and immediately noticed the large stack of…