United States
If you have already done a Chicago architectural boat tour and loved it what can you do on your next trip?
September 27, 2022Chicago was one of our last trips for pre-2020 travel. I was in Chicago in December of 2019 for my very first time and had such a fantastic time in this city. This year I had just over 24 hours to explore Chicago as I tagged along my husband’s work trip and we were staying […]
A roadtrip to Cannon Beach with kids and our pup because this is how we travel now and the dog friendly Oregon hotels we found
March 2, 2021We haven’t been to the Oregon Coast in a few years. And that doesn’t mean we don’t love it, we just usually head up north to BC to see family and it’s about the same distance from Seattle to Vancouver as it is from Seattle to Portland or Seattle to Cannon Beach. But this year […]
If going to the Ghibli museum is on your list of things to do on your Tokyo Trip
October 8, 2019My prior knowledge of the Ghibli Museum was only that it had to do with the movies Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. I’m not even sure if I actually ever watched Totoro or just bought a lot of Totoro things when I was a little kid and I’m still not exactly sure what a […]
When you are parents in Seattle and need a luxurious weekend away: 70-ish hours in New Mexico at the Ojo Caliente Spa Resort, one of the oldest spa resorts in North America and a few other ideas to dream about today
September 22, 2019Where can you go from Seattle that will make a weekend feel like a blissful forever and not have to travel a zillion miles to get there? The hubby and I had this remarkable conundrum this summer when my parents came to watch our guys and we had three days and two nights for a […]
From Seattle, Washington to the other Washington and staying at the Sakura Club Conrad Washington DC
June 27, 2019I fell into a wormhole researching cherry blossoms in Japan for a recent trip that made me realize that many other places in the world have amazing cherry blossom festivals too. Now there is a whole list of places I want to go to during cherry blossom season and I love how these beautiful sakura blossoms […]
Glamping in the closest almost-Serengeti to Seattle at Safari West in Santa Rosa
September 10, 2018Anyone else think a private bathroom would make camping absolutely perfect? That feature alone makes glamping at Safari West a dream come true because the tents here all have their own showers and bathrooms and feel a lot like hotel rooms. But if you think waking up to giraffes and flamingos is magical and you […]
Let’s Talk a Little on Why you might want to go to Great Wolf Lodge sooner than I did
July 30, 2018My kids have bugged me for years to go to Great Wolf Lodge and for years and years I have ignored them and made other plans. Our family tends to like outdoor things and nature-ish things and Great Wolf Lodge seemed like it would be the kind of chaotic, kid-filled place I would surely need […]
Tanaka Farms in Irvine California is a great place to take kids to learn where food comes from
January 8, 2018Do you love knowing where your food comes from? I recently did a poll on my Instagram Stories and I was so excited to see that an overwhelming majority of people care about the story of their food. I feel the same way. I love hanging out on factory tours and finding locally made things. I […]
How many nights do we need in Boston with kids in tow?
October 25, 2017Forgive me if I never realized that Boston Massachusetts was a family travel destination. On a flight in August this summer I almost thought we had mistakenly boarded a flight to Disneyland instead of Logan international as the flight was packed with families headed to the East Coast. Why were so many people traveling to […]
A history trip; a restored hotel, a haunted theatre and a famous canal in Syracuse
August 9, 2017A little while ago, I was hosted on a media trip to New York State for a piece I was writing for Trekaroo: a tour of historic women’s rights sites in Upstate New York that people can visit with their children. I learned a ton of interesting history that I didn’t know about before (and […]
A Fun Family trip to Imperial Beach thanks to Expedia
May 19, 2016I’ve said it many times before but I’m a total fan of booking through Expedia. This site allows me to consolidate my bookings in one place, cancel many hotel bookings without penalty and I’ve had some pretty great upgrades because of my VIP status. I’ve booked so many times with Expeida that I know what […]
A new bookstore and robata robotized at Uvillage (with Amazon Books and Blue C Sushi
November 5, 2015I’m more of a coffee cup half full type of girl so when my little guy ended up home because of a fever the night before (and a 24 hour rule at school where you can’t come back until fever has been over for 24 hours) on a day when Amazon opens its first book […]
Getting ready for an October Monday in Seattle
October 5, 2015I can totally get used to these no-umbrella, sunny fall weekends in Seattle especially now that it’s soccer season. We spent the weekend tidying the house, playing soccer and bike-riding through gorgeous fall leaves (and I’ll update you on our big bike ride later this week!) but it’s perfectly autumn in Seattle right now so […]
A family weekend Tesla Trip to Coeur d’Alene and stops along the way (roadtrips from Seattle)
July 29, 2015It’s a great time for electric cars in Seattle right now-everyday it seems like we see more and more on the road and I even noticed a bus advertising AAA emergency roadside charging service for electric vehicles and they have a lot of resources on their website too. This type of thing makes road trips […]
A very pinterest-worthy and maybe the best playground in Seattle so far (Artists at Play, Seattle Center)
July 13, 2015I always read these lists of best playgrounds in the world and there are never any west coast, North American playgrounds in them. Maybe people think we get too much rain here? Or maybe we keep our parks a secret. But lately we’ve had endless sunny skies and we’ve been outdoors all the time and […]
Surviving the BIG coaster for the first time (Silverwood Theme Park, Idaho)
July 11, 2015“You guys are headed to Silverwood today? Us too!” some big kids in the breakfast lineup at our hotel asked when they heard my husband and kids talking about our trip to Silverwood Theme Park. You’re going to have the BEST time!!!” And then they went on to tell us that they had visited when […]
The Mudgy and Millie Trail (Coeur D’alene, Idaho with kids)
June 30, 2015Can you believe how close Idaho is to Seattle? I totally had no idea until I started hearing about Idaho in a family travel chat that some of my family travel blogging friends put on and then I figured out that some of the places they were talking about were only a 3-ish hour drive […]
50 Northwest Parks in Summer
June 26, 2015My guys want to visit 50 northwest parks this summer and I thought this was a really fun goal. At first we pondered if we could go to the same park 50 times or if all the parks had to be in Seattle but we soon decided that we would only count different parks but […]
Coolest Ice Ceam in Denver
September 22, 2012What is it about ice cream that just melts away all the cares in the world? I adored going with my sister and dad to a little ice cream shop in the mall near where I grew up. It had curved chairs and pictures of fancy scooped desserts on the wall and I have so […]