Whale-watching at the Klamath River, California. As we drove away from Crescent City, California, earlier this week, we were surprised to find a number of people walking along the raised edge of this bridge pointing down into the Klamath River and snapping photographs. By the time we crept through the crowd to the other end…
The few, the proud, the crazy couch racers of Silverton, Oregon. Last year I finally got to watch the “Davenport Races” – one of the quirkiest highlights of the Homer Davenport Days celebrated each year in Silverton, Oregon (also known as the “couch races”). If that weren’t fun enough, I had the pleasure of watching…
The sand beach and picnic area at Crissy Field, San Francisco. I just wrapped up a fantastic week where I got to play host to out-of-town and out-of-country guests, sharing with them many of my favorite places to take the kids in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Let me tell you, we put some…
Here’s a favorite photo from our hike through Arenal Hanging Bridges near Lago Arenal and the Arenal Volcano in central Costa Rica. With 25 lbs. on my back, it was a good workout, but what a fantastic place to explore with the kids! This post is part of Photo Friday at DeliciousBaby.com – a happy…
For a month before we traveled to Spain, our family ate dinner each night beside a smattering of photos of the things I hoped we would see on our journey. In the center was a full-page photo of the unmistakable reflection pool at the Nasrid Palaces in Granada’s UNESCO World Heritage Site: The Alhambra. While…
I recently saw a tweet from @SoulTravelers3 that read, “Family travel is often about doing ordinary things in extraordinary places.” It got me thinking. Traveling with a school-age child now, it’s things like watching her do homework on the airplane or on a balcony in Spain that sets my heart a-flutter about family travel as…