Driving the County Line: Exploring While Staying Safer at Home
This drive has been on my field trip list for a long time. Safer at Home gave us the time and opportunity to do it. … continue reading
Travel
100 Steps on the Appalachian Trail, or How We #SlowHike
I don’t even know if #slowhiking is a thing. If it wasn’t before, it is now. It’s kind of our thing. We needed a name … continue reading
French Toast is not a Foreign Food: The Food Education of a Ten-Year-Old
I’m no Rick Bayless, but I know Stuffed French Toast isn’t an authentic Mexican dish. I thought my son knew that as well, but when … continue reading
A Bucket List of…Boredom?
I had no idea our recent trip to Mexico would mean our son would make so much progress on his Bored Bucket List. This list is a … continue reading
More than Me Gusta: Who Are You in a Second Language?
I started learning Spanish more than 14 years ago, just before I met my husband, a native Spanish speaker. During that time I put various levels of … continue reading
Riding the Highways of Mexico with Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Speeding down the highway from Cancun to Playa del Carmen I noticed we passed more than one group of cyclists riding on the shoulder of … continue reading
15 Things I Learned While Sleeping on a Submarine
In May my son and I joined his Cub Scout pack for an overnight on a World War II submarine, the decommissioned U.S.S. … continue reading
Cranespotting in Nebraska
This was a true case of making an effort to find the adventure in the field trip. We were driving through Nebraska on our way home from … continue reading
Burger King & Texting in the Philippines
There are so many things I didn’t take pictures of on my trip to the Philippines. I had a film camera and I had to … continue reading
Throwback Thursday- The Traditional Greek Kitchen
In January 1999 I went on a university between-semesters travel course to Greece and Turkey. On one of the first days of our adventure, we … continue reading