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Ready Player One in French Polynesia: A year of family travel and writing

One year ago today I brought my real world into a virtual one. I had been blogging for ten years, taking photos for twenty, traveling for...

I stumbled upon a Virgin Atlantic flight during a late night quest for reasonably priced tickets to Europe. For years it had been the...

This summer we visited one of the oldest cities in the Pacific Northwest. We are pleased to say that this place lives up to it's namesake...

How did we get here? I was in love with Athens. Ever since I took Old World History in the 5th grade I was enchanted with the white...

There was marble on the beach. The same stone that Restoration Hardware will try to sell you as an end table, white with grey veins...

Why is this so hard? Everyone makes it look so easy. The cursor hovered over the purchase button. I held my breath and clicked. The...

We moved across the country a year ago. Well, actually, it was more like a year and a half ago... but we were in temporary housing while...

If you get a chance to touch your feet on African soil, take it. While I am not the sort of person who counts the places I've visited,...

For years one of the biggest travel myths out there was that you had to be an heir to the Rockefeller fortune to be able to vacation...

Disneyland. The holy grail of theme parks. The place where at least one super bowl champion has gone to celebrate. A space where the...