I am the most hot natured person I know and why I thought visiting the southern most part of the US in the middle of summer was a good idea, I am not sure. Well, I do know why - but the timing could have been better. The reason? A business trip for Donald that we tagged along with for a few days. He has a conference in Miami, so we decided to take the kids to Key West. We have never been before and it is one of those bucket list places, so we are here. We arrived in Homestead, FL on Wednesday night so that we could begin our trek from a good central location. Our first stop - breakfast. Everyone knows that people are the happiest when they are no longer hungry. Our ... read more

Yellowstone Part 2 - Old Faithful and Beyond Today's touring of Yellowstone took us around the west side of the park. That side has more thermal areas than the east side and more people. We set off early with the intention of eating breakfast at the grill just like yesterday, but apparently today is the first day of the fall season and all the restaurants and stores open much later in the day. I wasn't asking for a sunrise breakfast, but thought 8am would be acceptable. I thought wrong. After we realized that area would not open for hours we made our way around to Old Faithful. It was about to erupt when we arrived so we quickly ran to the geyser to watch. And she blew....a lot of steam. Of course there was lots of ... read more

Touring the Tetons Wyoming trip day 2 We woke to rain this morning, but knew to not worry for the weather in Jackson, WY is always changing. We partook of the breakfast the hotel was so gracious to provide joining the entire tour group from the large bus who was apparently staying at our same hotel. It was crowded and the group was certainly not from the south for they lacked a bit of 'southern hospitality' or common decency - they were just rude. We checked out of the hotel and went back to the store for a little more shopping (still replenishing the essentials that were in the suitcase that did not make it on the plane). We also grabbed a sandwich for lunch later on. Then we were off to explore. We stopped in ... read more

Today's travels are pretty boring for it consists of interstate - airport - airplane - airport - interstate. There are no pictures to post, no exciting stories, no wondrous sites to behold. We checked out of our hotel early in hopes to avoid the chaos that sometimes surrounds a presidential visit and we were successful. There were still road blocks and police everywhere, but no president. We joined in the traffic of thousands of others during morning rush hour and started our way to SFO. It tok a bit longer than expected due to the slow traffic. After finding our road for the car rental return we searched for a gas station that had a car wash for our car was quite dirty. It was not easy to find. After obtaining a clean car, we decided ... read more

Touring the Town Today's travels do not have too much to report, for we really did not travel any. The kids and I mostly hung out around the hotel and the downtown district. We tried a different bakery this morning and spotted some awesome looking desserts for later in the day. After breakfast we went to the lobby for some internet time while waiting for some of the businesses to open. Most places do not open until 10 or 11 around here, which is just against my internal clock. Around 10 we headed to the Tech Museum. It is a hands on technology museum, but mostly geared towards elementary students. We looked at all the exhibits, interacting with a few of them. We were again surrounded by students on a last-week-of-school field trip, so that took ... read more