As the little guy sleeps and the others are down watching tiny crabs create masterpieces in the sand, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to share this “shot from the road.” What a week so far! For those of you who have read my advice on driving abroad with children, you can laugh heartily. Mama’s in the…
The nice thing about traveling is the interesting people you are likely to meet along the way, sometimes even where you least expect it. Take, for example, this budding young musician that Baby Theo and I intercepted during a pit stop at the postcard-perfect Lithia Park in Ashland, Oregon. It’s not every day that I…
It has been one of those days. The post I had planned to publish this morning slipped away on the banana peel of myriad life complications, technical conundrums, and an underlying desire, as always, to be spontaneous. Even now, after 2.5 hours of driving mostly 10 miles per hour, hoisting daughters to plug my last…
When Budget Travel Magazine announced the Ten Coolest Small Towns in America on the CBS Early Show , it came as no surprise to the residents of Silverton, Oregon, that their town made the list. What was surprising, however, was how few people outside of Silverton could place the town on the map—though it was…
We are back from our latest Rivoli family road trip, some 1680 miles of adventure from the San Francisco Bay Area into and around the state of Oregon. Along the way we swam in a lake, an above-ground pool, an in-ground pool, an indoor pool, and a geothermal hot mineral pool. We slept in a…
After we rambled on through Yosemite, catching waterfalls and wildflowers in their prime, we dipped down to Mammoth Lakes where we had the great pleasure of building a snowman on summer vacation (don’t miss my Mammoth tips & review on TravelSavvyMom.com—with video!). Then it was time to head north on our Eastern Sierra family road…