This was a quick weekend getaway trip to celebrate Valentine’s Day a week early. The timing was about right because we managed to avoid pretty heavy Winter storms in the Anza Borrego desert while also leaving Julian right before the next round of oncoming Winter snows…

This was a quick weekend getaway trip to celebrate Julie’s birthday. Given that we needed some time off from Tahia and from all my troubles with the big website migration as well as the usual day job dramas, Julie and I did this trip alone…

This epic trip was one of our more daring trips (which was saying something considering we were traveling independently in mostly developed countries), but it was one in which we had to rely more on our planning as well as rolling with the punches…

This was one of our more unusual trips in that it was the longest trip we’ve done involving a party of seven people. Of course, three of them were children as they all had the same Spring Break schedule. My parents also came along…

This was essentially a redo of a trip that took place back in November 2006, when it was adversely affected by some of Australia’s worst drought on record at the time.  This time around, Julie and I once again did this trip together alone…

With Summer in full swing and a daughter that was growing and learning quickly (though out-of-school for nearly three months), we figured that we needed to do a road trip to experience the world in ways that are simply not possible…

The goal of this weekend trip was to expose my nephew to our favorite haunt – Yosemite National Park. Tahia had been here before, but we also wanted to keep both the kids engaged by allowing them to keep each other…

This was a pretty spontaneous and last-minute long weekend trip where we never really had long term plans to make it happen. Salt Lake City was always one of those “one of these days” type destinations…

This was a trip where we tested the limits of our personal car as well as the limits of how much I could drive in a span of a week-and-a-half. We’ve always wanted to go to New Mexico and Colorado, and this was our opportunity…

This was kind of a spontaneous last-minute long weekend trip where we waited for the kids to get out of school, then headed right up to Lone Pine, which was the base of our excursions in and out of Death Valley…

This was a very last-minute, spur-of-the-moment trip where we just went for it and made our booking literally days before actually making the drive out here.  It was the perfect storm of saving money as well as…

This trip began as a business trip for work, where I had to attend a review held by contractors who were based in Colorado Springs.  However, we figured out that we could use airline miles so Julie and Tahia could …

This was a quick weekend trip where Julie and I decided to do turn a typical weekend into a Valentine’s Weekend even though the actual day itself was nearly a week later.  At least that meant that it would be…

This trip was really about letting the kids have fun at Legoland. However, Julie, Tahia, and I showed up a day earlier than my brother’s family.  Therefore, we had an opportunity to fit in a waterfall hike…

This was a trip where Mom and I split off so Dad could hang out with friends from his college days. Although I had waterfalling targets throughout the island based on the exploits from those who cataloged…

This itinerary was actually one-half of a two-country, 3.5-week trip encompassing both Japan and Taiwan. In this itinerary write-up, we’re only focusing on Japan since this leg of the trip could easily stand out as…

This was one of those trips that served dual purposes. Since I went alone with my parents, they got to see parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon that they had never seen before (or at least not in the way that Julie and I have done in the past, which mostly involved hiking to waterfalls)….

This particular week-long trip was a long time coming. Up until now, we had a major hole in our survey of waterfalls in our home state of California. Even though Mom and I had visited a very small sampling of waterfalls in the far northern…

This was a long weekend trip where I spontaneously decided to do a trip to visit waterfalls in the far north of California for the first time. Given the driving distances, neither Julie nor I went waterfalling north of Sacramento….

This was a Spring Break trip where we took our daughter along for a bit of a trip to the heart of Texas as well as the Bayou, and even further to the north in the Ozarks and in Sooner Country. After starting off the trip….