Author: Terumi
How to bike ride all over New York City for $15 a day with Citi Bike and the Lyft app
June 5, 2023I always thought New York City was a walking city. “We walked 25000″ steps a day!” people always say when you ask them how their NYC trips went. So after our last trip, using a Citi Bike Daypass and the Lift app, we definitely still got in nearly 25000 steps a day but we also […]
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Nashville Chocolate Factories you might want to visit if you love seeing how chocolate is made
June 4, 2023Somehow we’ve made chocolate touring part of our daily adventures and travels. In Seattle we are lucky enough to have at least a handful of incredible chocolate factories near enough to visit. And we’ve looked for chocolate factories in Ireland, in Hawaii (it seems like every coffee farm in Hawaii is growing chocolate now!) and […]
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Things to do in Seattle in June
May 31, 2023Hello June, have we really have made it here this year? Seattle schools gets out at the end of this month (The end of this month?!! Remember we had the school strike to start out this year?) and the weather is starting to feel pretty fantastic. There are definitely a lot of things things to […]
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A Nashville hot chicken tour with my twin teenagers for mid-winter break
Timing and life doesn’t always give you what you want, and my husband had a work conference during our mid-winter break in Nashville. Nashville?!! My twin teenagers were not the most enthusiastic about this trip. Being from Seattle, February usually has us dreaming of somewhere warm like Hawaii. And mid-winter break can be a longer […]
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Seattle coffee shops and neighborhoods I explored with the new Toyota BZ4X
May 24, 2023I was loaned a Toyota BZ4X for the week for the purpose of this review and as always everything in this post and the opinions here are my own I had no idea that Toyota had an electric SUV so when I got a message asking if I wanted to try driving one in Seattle […]
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A 10 day family Greece trip Itinerary from Seattle with teenagers
May 22, 2023I wish I could take more credit for this itinerary but I planned very little of this 10 day Greece trip. I didn’t think I’d actually get to go because I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease at the end of last year and I’ve been undergoing treatments. So I didn’t want to plan […]
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Vancouver, Canada and the Places we Like to Go to when we visit
May 17, 2023I keep getting asked for where we like to go in Vancouver Canada, and I have old lists for Vancouver with kids and Vancouver with my dog, but I realized recently that I didn’t have a centralized list, so this is where I’m going to put the places we like to go and things we […]
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Almost 10 very PNW books you might want to read this summer
May 12, 2023(this list of pnw books contains affiliate links to a site that supports local bookstores) I often read books with a sense of place before I go on a trip, so here are a few that feel very Pacific Northwest if you are visiting the area or even if this is where you call home. […]
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Essential Baking Company, perhaps the most historical bread starter in Seattle?
May 10, 2023A few months ago I posted a couple of my frequent Costco purchases in my Instagram Stories. For the cabin I always purchase this Essential Baking Company bread because it lasts FOREVER in your cupboard and when you want fresh bread immediately you bake it in the oven for about 15 minutes and it turns […]
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Camano Commons and other delicious places to find food on Camano Island
May 5, 2023Camano Island is so close to Seattle it can be a day trip, I’ve been telling everyone since we went there a few weeks ago. But I don’t know if this is entirely truthful. Yes, Camano Island is barely just over an hour from Seattle but if you want to try all the delicious foods […]
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Things to do In Seattle in May
May 1, 2023Ready or not, it’s May today and it really feels like we’re excited for it in our city. Seattle in May is so hopeful-the blossoms are out and the weather feels like it’s good more days than not. We wear jackets because we want to and not because we’ll absolutely freeze without them. The cruise […]
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A mom and me (and pup) trip to Camano Island and an idea for Mother’s Day weekend
April 24, 2023Not much more than an hour’s drive north of Seattle you can get to a place that feels worlds away. My mom and I recently met midway between Vancouver BC (where she lives) and Seattle, WA (where I live) on Camano Island for a mom and me adventure for an early Mother’s Day celebration. My […]
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A bunny cafe in Vancouver BC worth the drive from Seattle
April 22, 2023Are you somebunny who loves little rabbits? We actually didn’t try the coffee in this cafe, but I took my niece and nephew to the Bunny Cafe in Vancouver BC and there were bunnies galore. The Bunny Cafe is on Commercial drive, a vibrant street full of shops and cafes and I found it when […]
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The best bathroom in the world is at the Nashville Zoo
April 8, 2023Try to find a better bathroom, I dare you. The best bathroom in the world is arguably the one at the Nashville Zoo. My teenagers and I stopped by the Nashville zoo on a recent trip to the area and it was a cold and chilly day so we even ended up with a “cold […]
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Book an Atrium room at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville and you might just feel like you’re in Jurassic Park
April 5, 2023I’m not always a fan of conference hotels. They tend to feel dormish or sterile. And because we travel a lot, I’ve found that my family now spends more time in our hotel rooms than we used to so where we stay has become a lot more important. When I found out we would be […]
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Things to do in Seattle in April
April 3, 2023If April showers bring May flowers what might snow showers in April bring? (And let’s hope it’s only sun showers in Seattle from now on) April is such a great time to be in Seattle with all the flowers showing off, baseball season beginning and a little lull in the city just before the first […]
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What life is like after 3 months of using Lomi composter in our house
March 27, 2023*This post may contain affiliate links and as always the ideas in the post are my own.* In Seattle where we live, we have food waste pickup so we currently use our Lomi composter at our cabin in the mountains where we do not have garbage pickup. If you’ve been following along our Lomi Journey […]
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Robot coffee in Seattle, are you ready for this?
March 19, 2023Last month, Seatac Airport announced its partnership with Costa Coffee and debuted its 24/7 coffee machine. For anyone who has come through the airport early in the morning or late at night this means that there are still warm drinks available and that is a very comforting thing for travelers. When I heard about another […]
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Hidden Worlds: The Films of LAIKA World Premiere Exhibition at MOPOP in Seattle
March 17, 2023Even if you haven’t seen any LAIKA films you’ll probably want to stop by and see this new exhibition at Seattle’s MOPOP, especially if you are curious about how stop-motion movies are made. Hidden Worlds: The films of LAIKA is having its world premiere exhibition at the MOPOP and it will be there through summer […]
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Why a Woodland Park Zoo membership in Seattle is a very good idea
March 15, 2023When is the last time you went to Woodland Park Zoo? I grew up in Vancouver BC, and even though Seattle is a three hour drive away, my parents would always get a membership for the zoo so it was a big part of my childhood and now it’s a big part of my kids’ […]
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