The musings of a traveling couple

The four of us had been to the Baltics when the kids were younger but Emily didn’t join us on that trip, and since living in Europe, we’ve been slowly closing country gaps between us all. We decided to not Read more

Well, it turns out that living in Europe means a lot more short weekend trips, which also means it’s harder to keep up with detailed blog posts of our travels. To round-out the year after our two pre-summer trips I Read more

So our kids love pasta and parmesan cheese. And I really mean LOVE. They would eat it for every meal if we let them. So for Xmas, we decided to give them a “Pasta Pass” where they could eat as Read more

For some reason, the girls got a week off in February, so of course that meant we had to go exploring Europe! We originally planned to go to Italy but I got spooked when looking at car rentals and they Read more

So if you look closely, you’ll notice that the two trip posts I wrote about on here in 2023 actually took place in late 2022, so I haven’t written anything about 2023 yet! And here we are in 2024 already. Read more

This trip was a long time coming! We initially planned it as a roadtrip in the early months of covid, but then state infection levels kept increasing and knocking out states we wanted to visit. We re-planned it twice to Read more

I’m a bit behind on writing up our recent trips. This one was over Thanksgiving week in 2022. We had always talked about doing a big South American trip and it finally all came together. My father-in-law had used a Read more

This trip began as they almost always do — an airfare deal that seemed too good to pass up. This time it was $450 for roundtrip from Chicago to Stockholm. We booked it quickly before the deal was gone and Read more

We’ve been itching to travel internationally since the start of COVID, having planned and begrudgingly canceled at least five other trips abroad in the last two years. While restrictions are loosening up, our vaccination cards aren’t approved for travel in Read more

For the holidays last month, we were planning to go to Memphis for my in-laws 50th anniversary, and then stay down there through Christmas. Upon our return to Chicago, we scored super cheap tickets to Tokyo over New Years and Read more