My brother and I were always massive fans of the Ghostbusters franchise. I remember when he was a little kid, he would run around with his proton pack with his buddies in the neighborhood busting ghosts. We watched the two original movies so many times, I’m pretty sure we have them both memorized. One summer, in 2009, we decided that we would create our own tour around New York City, checking out all the filming locations we could find from…
Welcome to Part 2 of our amazing family getaway to Belize. If you haven’t read Part 1, check it out here! We started off at Blancaneaux Lodge, but this article is about our stay at the Turtle Inn, our second Coppola Hideaway resort. On our way from Blancaneaux to Turtle Inn, we booked an excursion to St. Herman’s Cave to do some cave river tubing. After hiking for about 5 minutes through a flat, grassy forest, we arrived at the…
So we had a big giant trip to Paris planned with all four kids for the summer of 2020. COVID ruined those plans, but we were hopeful to rebook for 2021, which I did, and then I cancelled again since the rules were still weird about vaccines, etc. The summer of 2021 quite possibly may have been the last summer where we could snag all four kids and go on one vacation together since our oldest was starting college in…
As the pandemic was just beginning outside of the USA, we embarked on a trip to Panama. We seriously didn’t think the pandemic would amount to much, and didn’t think twice about traveling out of the country during the last week of February in 2020. We were giggling at the vendors selling face masks in the airport on our way home, but we had no idea how much our lives would change in the next two weeks. It was our…
This is the trip that literally saved my mental wellbeing. When the pandemic began in America in March of 2020, all travel was halted. Our trip to Paris in the summer was cancelled, and there was no hope of rebooking it any time soon. For someone who needs travel to keep their head space in check while living a mostly ordinary life with a stressful day job, the toll of not being able to plan a trip for so long…
Today, I’ll be telling you about my trip with two of my cousins to the Willamette Valley in Oregon back in August of 2016. My cousin Irene and I have been studying wine for several years, and Oregon Pinots are at the top of our list of faves, so we just had to go there to visit and taste some amazing wines from the source. We brought our cousin Vicki, who is not as much into wine as we are,…
Boy, did I get a lot of raised eyebrows when I told people we were taking our two littlest kids, then ages 8 and 9 to Las Vegas, Nevada, but Las Vegas has a lot to do for people of all ages, and I’m here to dispel the myth that Vegas is only for adults. The first time I was there was when I was 16, back in the mid-90s, when Vegas was going through a whole, “this is a…
Our pandemic trip to St. Lucia in February 2021 landed us at the all-inclusive resort Anse Chastenet, with a fabulous view of the famous St. Lucia Pitons. One of the best things about our stay at Anse Chastenet was that it is a sister hotel to Jade Mountain Resort, consistently rated as one of the best resorts in the Caribbean, so we were able to eat dinner at the Jade Mountain Club for a $40 surcharge per person. Even though…
My husband and I traveled to Rome with our teenagers, then 15 and 16 years old, in July of 2019. I was not looking forward to this trip at all. I typically prefer to go out into the country to explore, rather than staying in the capital cities, and going to Rome in July just sounded hot, crowded, and miserable. When you are traveling with kids, however, summers and breaks are the only time you can go. Well guess what? …
One of our anniversary trip stops took us to the Copal Tree Lodge in Punta Gorda, Belize for a week in February of 2019. Punta Gorda is about as far south as you can get in Belize before Honduras, and is pretty rustic compared to other, more toursity places in Belize. You have to take a small plane that makes several stops at towns along the way either via Maya Island Air or Tropic Air. Punta Gorda is the…