Our first trip as a Family of Four: The good, the bad, and the downright exhausting! PART I: THE BAD March 25th 2015 Kyla's first trip as a baby was an adventurous backpacking/scuba diving trip to Indonesia for three weeks when she was 10 months old. Now that we have two little rugrats, traveling seems to be 100% more daunting so we decided that little Jakey's first trip would be just a short skip and hop up the California coast to Monterey and Santa Cruz. As the title of this blog implies, there were good times ... read more
North America » United States » California » Monterey Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more
Scott and I have always been travellers at heart. We first met on the beach in Spain in 1995 and had what we thought was "just a holiday romance". We met again briefly a year later in Salzburg, Austria and then a few years later in Hawaii. At the time, I was working in Japan, and Scott was back in California after his two years in Barcelona, Spain.
Together, we have left it all behind to backpack around the world, not once, not twice, but three times. Travel really is addictive! Each time, we'd quit our jobs, put our meager belongings into storage or sell what was too big to store, leave o... full info