Growing up in Los Angeles, I went to Las Vegas many times with my family over the years (it’s a 4-5 hour drive away), but my kids had never been, so we decided to go for the 4-day Thanksgiving weekend last year. I’d also never been to the Hoover Dam or the Grand Canyon, and […]
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With fall just around the corner, I know it may be hard to picture a beach vacation. However, it’s never too early to start planning for one, right?! Just last month in late August, we decided to go on vacation to Seaside, Florida. After my friend from the Midwest started making it an annual trip […]
We recently took a vacation driving around our island of Palawan. Despite living here for almost 4 years, we’d only been to two cities — El Nido where we lived and the island capital of Puerto Princesa 5 hours away, because the tourism industry we work in doesn’t have days off! But September is the […]
On our second day in LA, Olive broke her finger on those swings behind her. We just got home from a three week trip to Los Angeles to visit my family, and it was the coldest May there in four decades! Even though we’ve visited every year since we moved to the Philippines 3.5 years […]
When I was growing up in Los Angeles, downtown was an area to be avoided with nothing much to do there. A lot has changed since then with a dramatic revitalization, and now it would take several days to see all of downtown LA’s sights! You do still see homelessness in some areas as Skid […]
We’re headed to Los Angeles for three weeks soon, and I’ve been planning this trip from an unschooling perspective, trying to do as many educational experiences as we can, which means museums, bookstores, and libraries. My kids have already done the big things like Disneyland, Universal Studios, and Legoland. Having grown up in Los Angeles […]
When we moved off of Kauai in Hawaii, we got ourselves a gently used 1984 Toyota Warrior Winnebago (that we named Summer) to drive around the mainland of the United States. My then-husband, 1.5 year old daughter, and I packed up everything we owned, placed them into the cupboards of a 24’ van, and set […]
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