Heat and humidity are harder to manage when you live in Southern California the majority of the time. From the moment the plane lands and the door opens, that first blast of warm, wet air is tough to overcome but that didn’t mean we needed to head back West. Instead, we headed for water and […]

We came up with a plan to give the ladies and men their own day to spend as they choose. The ladies went first and chose spa treatments and general relaxation, and the guys went next, choosing climbing and riding quads offroad. While they enjoyed their day, they couldn’t stay away for long and by […]

We take pride in going our own way and choosing when and where. Which is why it was out of the ordinary for us to sign up for an organized speedboat tour to Koh Phi Phi. We left early from the Sheraton in small vans but soon met up with the larger crowd at the […]

I want to sleep beneath Peaceful skies in my lover’s bed With a wide open country in my eyes And these romantic dreams in my head – Bruce Springsteen, No Surrender We were surprised to be wide awake at 4am, and it wasn’t our little girl’s fault. We were very excited to be in Krabi […]

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road – Phillip Phillips, “Home” For most people, the vacation destination is just that, someplace to arrive and begin relaxing or having an adventure. For us, the destination is just a stopover on our continuous adventure, and getting to Krabi Beach, Thailand […]

South Korea is where Jeanne took her first breath and the country that wasn’t kind to its orphans back in 1978. We had a chance to travel through Seoul on our way to Thailand and we decided that it was time for Jeanne to return to her country of birth for the first time since […]

Wanting to get out of London for a day, we booked train tickets from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge for our last full day in the UK. Sunday morning was an easy time to get across London from our hotel on Piccadilly Lane in Mayfair and we were in our comfortable first class seats in […]

In what has to be the greatest stretch of weather for western France in memory, we enjoyed four gorgeous days on the Ilê d’Yeu, a small island off the coast of Vendée, accessible from the port of Fromentine at the causeway for Ilê de Noirmoutier. Our trip started with an hour drive south along the […]

We love the San Gabriel Mountains that are in our back yard in Pasadena. We spend an enormous amount of time hiking, camping, climbing and skiing in what we consider Southern California’s greatest range. From the Los Angeles side of the San Gabriels, it would be easy to think that the mountains are only dry […]

This is a continuation of Day 1 of 3 gray and wonderful days on Belle-île-en-Mer, Brittany. Our second day in Belle-île-en-Mer started with a change of hotels. The owner of the Hotel Clos Fleuri wasn’t any easier to deal with in the morning, so we quickly booked the hotel we considered when we first planned […]