This was not how it was supposed to end. Back in October of 2017 when Laura brought up the idea of taking a 9-12 month trip around the...

"Elephants! Elephants! Elephants!", were the chants that the three of us were proclaiming the days leading up to our trip to the Elephant...

I knew Luxor was going to be a reprieve, albeit a small one, from the absolute chaos that Cairo brought but outside of the attractions, I...

One of the reasons we loved Istanbul so much was the feeling that it was truly preparing us for what we would experience in Egypt. Akin...

As I mentioned in part 1, I feel that it is a disservice to not discuss the misfortunes of a situation. I will say though it is a much...

Here we are, three months later...well, three months and two days. Sitting here in Istanbul, a place we weren't even originally planning...

Laura and I are asked quite frequently how we are doing this gap year and what exactly we are doing. For a while it was hard to...

From the very moment that we started planning for this trip, it was known that we HAD to go to Pompeii. Around the middle of 2017 H had...

Having grown up in the 90's Laura and I still were within the target age group of people to originally get swept up into the world of...

Oh boy, this one's a pickle. Constantly planning for travel has proven to be an exhausting task. As I'm writing this I already know how...

Berlin is a bit of a mysterious place for me. I was very young when the wall fell and Germany reunited but being born in the 80's I feel...

The day finally came. After almost two years of planning it honestly didn't feel like it was going to. We said our many goodbyes to our...

I'm just going to be upfront and honest. I love my tech. From an early age, it was a bonding point between my father and me and I have...

At the end of June, Laura and I took a road trip from Portland, OR to Grand Rapids, MI. We sent Harrison ahead as he is 9 and still gets...

Well, its my attempt at handcrafting a blog for my family. Over the course of a year...A YEAR...I have been playing around with different...