One of my favorites memories from our Europe backpacking trip is our Ireland Coast Road Trip. Our selected route started in Dublin (after spending three days there) and ended after dropping off...

Welcome to my Scenes From the Week series. In these posts, I share the highlights from my previous week ranging from the simple, everyday things to the more memorable events. One of the primary...

Oh, Dublin…. I have been dreaming about going to Dublin and the rest of Ireland for as long as I can remember. Growing up, each time I was asked what my ultimate dream trip would be, I...

For our next home base in Scotland, we picked Dundee, a large city about an hour and a half train ride north of Edinburgh. We used this as a home base for visiting St. Andrews and the small town of...

Varenna, Lake Como, Italy I’ve been away from the Currently link-up for a while now, and so much has changed since then! I’ve decided to join in this month to break up the monotony of...

For our day trip to Oxford, we traveled in by train from Bristol just as we did for our day trip to Bath the day before. The train journey to Oxford was much longer than to Bath (about an hour and...

Our first stop on our grand European adventure was a one-week stay in London with my family. The main motivation for this family trip was to see my brother Ben march in the London New Year’s...

Let me join everyone else and say – Wow! Where did 2015 go? I’m very excited to welcome 2016. 2015 was a busy year with lots of work, but it also brought lots of fun and exciting...

Hello Friends! It has been entirely too long since I’ve posted in this space. All I can say is my job caught up to me again with long hours, and we have been doing quite a bit of traveling. I...

Our next adventure in Peru was a ten hour train ride north from Puno to Cusco. We had really been looking forward to this day because we had heard so many great things about this train ride from...