This trip was a repeat of what Julie and I had done nearly 8 years prior. The difference with this trip was that we had endured a bit of a drought, there was no unexpected snow storm, and we came in with more knowledge…

This trip was really about letting Tahia enjoy herself at Legoland for her birthday. I tried to be opportunistic about using this trip to visit a couple of waterfalls that we hadn’t done before, but given the dry Winters that we had…

The premise of this trip was to celebrate a combination of our wedding anniversary as well as Julie’s birthday. It also coincided with a particularly busy time at work where this last-minute break was much needed…

This was one of those seize-the-moment trips where we had an opportunity to make a last-minute trip to explore the Great Lakes area at a time when the Fall Colors should be in the process of intensifying…

Although I had been to the Eastern Sierra of California (particular around the Mammoth Lakes vicinity) many times, this was the first time our daughter got to experience it for herself. It was also Julie’s first time back here in a little over a decade…

This itinerary covered the remaining 32 days of an epic six-week trip covered the countries of Morocco and Spain. Each country could be considered in their own separate itineraries, which was how I’ve broken it up to better modularize the trip logistics…

This itinerary was actually the first 11 days of an epic six-week itinerary covered the countries of Morocco and Spain. Each country could be considered in their own separate itineraries, which was how I’ve broken it up to better modularize…

This itinerary summaries the familiar Big Sur Coast as well as Monterey. But what made this trip different from our prior ones was that we brought our daughter along. Thus, we got a different experience as it now mattered more to us…

This itinerary was of a brief weekend overnight trip to Santa Barbara during the weekend of Valentine’s Day. Unlike the similar trip to the area that Julie and I did nearly six years prior to this trip, this one was stricken by a crippling drought that gripped much of California…

This itinerary covered about a week-and-a-half in the island nation of Vanuatu. Julie and I were celebrating our ten year anniversary, but it also doubled as a birthday celebration for Julie….

This month-long itinerary was our initiation to the United Kingdom, which was pretty much like visiting three countries (England, Scotland, and Wales) in a single trip. Unlike our previous European vacations to this point, we brought our daughter this time…

This unusual itinerary was a rare opportunity to turn an otherwise not-so-pleasant business trip into one where I was able to spend time with my wife and daughter after the meeting was over. And this was possible without incurring…

This itinerary was designed to maximize our time during the peak of the Autumn colors in the northeastern part of the United States (otherwise known as New England) as well as the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario…

This was a weekend backpacking trip that began and ended in Onion Valley. The ultimate main goal of this physical challenge was to get up to the Kearsarge Pass (and get the kind of Eastern Sierra panorama that many in the backpacking…

This itinerary covered a three-week trip to mostly Central and Northern Italy. Julie and I traveled alone on this trip since we thought Tahia was too little to deal with the inevitable cigarette smoke as well as the additional logistics involved when you bring a third person along…

This itinerary was kind of our last-minute extended weekend visit to Idaho, where we encapsulated a visit to see a long-time friend and her newborn along with some waterfalls and sightseeing…

This itinerary of our visit to Yosemite National Park was pretty much motivated by catching the natural firefall phenomenon where Horsetail Falls would be lit up by the setting sun in such a way that the falling waters glow red while everything else…

In this itinerary, we covered the familiar Society Islands of Tahiti (also more formally known as French Polynesia). Thus, we spent time on Tahiti Island, Moorea Island, and Bora Bora Island…

Our trip to the Southeastern United States in the Southern Appalachian Mountain Range was kind of an odd trip for Julie and I because it was a region that we had never really seriously considered visiting.
But one thing we learned over the years was that you haven’t really…

This itinerary covered a three-week trip that can be split up into two parts. The first part of the trip was pretty much a week-long self-driving loop of a limited part of Northern France that started and ended in Paris. The second part of the trip covered two weeks of a much longer loop…