Final Plans For Our Ireland / UK Road Trip

Final Plans For Our Ireland / UK Road Trip

In just over a week we’ll be off! Since Addam told me that we’ll be going on our dream vacation I’ve been busy trawling through travel books, googling, planning and spreadsheeting. Today I’m excited to present my crazy spreadsheet and...
Hiking The Whitaker Point Trail

Hiking The Whitaker Point Trail

Today we drove an hour and a bit away from our home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to a place called Whitaker Point. We’re usually pretty good with directions, but getting to the start of this trail was frustrating. The area is not signposted very well, and so we...
Walhalla: Discovering Country Victoria

Walhalla: Discovering Country Victoria

I’ve spent many family trips around the Victorian countryside, but most of them have been within an hour or two’s distance from the Melbourne CBD. For some reason most Aussies that I know don’t do long road trips like we do in the USA. In fact, the only times I’ve...
We Took A Ferry To Red Hill And Wasps Ate Our Lunch

We Took A Ferry To Red Hill And Wasps Ate Our Lunch

Sometimes the best trips don’t involve any planning at all. We’re in Australia visiting my family, and this morning we decided to spontaneously head over to the Mornington Peninsula. There are two ways you can get to the peninsula. 1) Drive around the...
How to Responsibly Plan a Dream Vacation to Ireland and the UK

How to Responsibly Plan a Dream Vacation to Ireland and the UK

In February 2016, we were sitting in an Fado’s Irish Pub in Chicago, celebrating our relationship, and Addam surprised me with a gift bag. Inside the bag there was a card, a calendar, and a book. The book was a travel book on the U.K. On the calendar,...