I have a confession. Though I adore my community of travel writers and bloggers, and have developed some very endearing and close friendships with many of them, when it comes to listening to most travel writers talk, especially to others about travel, I cringe. I want to roll my eyes and walk away exasperated in frustration at the abundance of arrogance and obvious disconnect to the realit[...]
When I was 8 years old, my parents and I moved out of the city for a bit and into the suburbs of Teaneck, NJ. After school I would walk home on my own, often taking my time because I had a crush on a boy named Andrew who seemed to move as slow as molasses and with whom I took these walks home with. I don't think Andrew really had much of a crush on me, but he walked with me anyway - mainl[...]
It's that time of the year! This year we discovered a new place to go pumpkin picking in Toano, VA at Pumpkinville and instead of venturing upstate like we have in the past, we decided to discover apple picking in New Jersey. Honestly, as I started writing this post, I realized that I have failed you in delivering the images of what Chester, NJ is looking like today. Even if you have picke[...]
Last weekend the family and I packed up the car and headed 7 hours South to Virginia to visit the Williamsburg area. Now, we've been to Williamsburg, VA in the past when we visited Bush Gardens in our last Summer road trip. But this time we were going for a new experience. We were going to step back in time with a visit to Colonial Williamsburg, where my hope was that the boys would get a[...]
We went on another road trip this weekend. To Colonial Williamsburg, VA. In this post, I just wanted to talk about the road trip itself. Not necessarily about this particular road trip, just about the whole road trip idea and why you should do it. I remember not really loving the whole road tripping thing till I had my own kids, and finances really demanded that we get creative if we want[...]
One of my favorite resorts in the Colorado Rockies is prepping for the Winter fun and I've got the scoop on what's going on for the season, including the great rates, attractions and activities in store for you and your family. It's a lot of information and tons of fun to take note of, so get ready to dust off those snow boots cause we're heading to the mountains, baby! If you haven't vis[...]
I arrived to Cancún, Mexico late on a Wednesday night. I met Juan Carlos, the driver from Riviera Maya assigned to pick me up and greeted him in Spanish, which surprised him - something that would happen a lot during my visit any time I spoke to anyone in Spanish. Our common language would be the thing that would make us comfortable with each other within minutes of our hour drive from[...]
We had so much fun in Hershey, PA area that when it was time to leave my 4 year old protested and requested "one adventure more". Luckily for us an unexpected turn lead us right to Indian Echo Caverns, a limestone cave which took over a million years to create by the erosive properties of water. In reading about the caverns we found out that I learned that it is normal for wildlife to s[...]
After our fun adventures at Chocolate World, the family and I couldn't wait to visit Hershey Park. I had heard so much about the park from so many different people who have gone, and never once have I heard anyone say anything negative about it, we just needed to go see for ourselves. We went on one of the busiest days of the season (last Saturdays of Summer). We arrived to the area a litt[...]
The East Coast has been hit with a lot of rain these past few weekends, and this coming weekend will be no exception. However, we have been really fortunate in getting out to enjoy some time during our Road Trip Weekends, at least a day or two with sunshine allowing for lots of fun adventures. Our latest road trip lead us to Hershey, PA. The family and I drove out later in the afternoon on[...]
