Adventuriety
We went to Copenhagen for Christmas for a lot of reasons but the best reason of all was probably because if you can visit three countries in a trip instead of one, why not? There were other reasons too, like I had wanted to visit Copenhagen in person ever since I visited with Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown a few years ago. Copenhagen is after all, the...
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Domesticiety / Inspirietry
My husband and I always get into a heated discussion about this time of year. It goes something like this. Me…. “Let’s go somewhere for Thanksgiving.” Him…”I’d be happy to cook Thanksgiving dinner at home. You know our kids really miss out on traditions.” And then in his mind he adds, “They miss out because of your holiday issues.” From there, the discussion goes downhill...
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Adventuriety / Domesticiety
Our year of traveling the world is over and the kids are back in a “brick and mortar” school. We’ve been home for about three months and I just finished the last of the my travel blogs about all of our activities and what I think about them, but Scott has been telling me that I should write about the “other stuff,” the more reflective...
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Adventuriety
Something that I notice right away as I look through our pictures from Shanghai to refresh my memory and get ready to blog my heart out…our pictures are not stellar. Shanghai was days 16-19, our last three days in China, and we were tired. China had been nonstop tourist-ing every day and after our first four nights in Beijing we were staying two nights in...
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Adventuriety
I didn’t know a whole lot about China when I was planning our trip. Heck, I didn’t even want to go to China so I’m not sure how it turned out that I was in charge of planning, but I did know that China had Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, the landscape that inspired The Hallelujah Mountains in Avatar. If I was going to China, that sounded...
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