Our First Trip as a Family of Four: The Good, the Bad, and the Downright Exhausting! PART II: THE GOOD March 26th 2015 The great thing about the human memory is the fact that the bad memories tend to fade over time, leaving just the good ones. I've always thought that's why people in our parents' generation tend to claim that their baby slept through the night the day she came home from the hospital, or that their toddler never had tantrums. Of course that's not true, but they have probably forgotten those parts o ... 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