Exploring Submarines on Jeju Island with Kids
A trip to Korea just isn’t complete without spending a few days on Jeju Island. Also known as the Island of the Gods, Jeju Island is considered the Hawaii of Korea. It is a beautiful paradise with hiking trails, jungles, beaches, shopping markets, museums, history and more.  Island of the God's: Perfect Jeju Itinerary Right Now  Keep reading to discover the...
Korean Ice Cream
Imagine a miniature version of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory on every street corner, filled with Scrumdiddlyumptious Chocolate Bars, FudgeMallow Delights and Everlasting Gobstoppers…, but get this, everything is frozen.  Every imaginable sweet treat cold as ice and chilling to the touch in a land where everything is popsicles. What would you say if I told you this place exists? It...
Lotte World with Kids
Korea is chock full of both amusement parks and water parks, including a cheese land and a poo poo land! But of the dozens of parks that will entice visitors to their gleaming golden gates, two stand out as the most famous: Everland vs Lotte World. Despite the fact that your idea of a perfect day might involve exploring the...
Subway in Korea with kids
Korea is one of the most child friendly countries we’ve ever been to. Children are welcomed everywhere and doted on at every opportunity. A trip to Korea with kids means becoming accustomed to restaurant owners grabbing our baby and taking her so we can have a peaceful dinner, strangers asking to take photos of our family while giggling and...
Monkey Island Panama
Located inside the Panama Canal, Monkey Island is a round little patch of land floating in the middle of Gatun Lake located north of the Miraflores Lockes. It’s a tiny little island covered in wildlife, foliage and best of all - wild monkeys of course! What makes Monkey Island in Panama such a perfect activity is that you get the...
Renting a Car in Panama
It only takes once to read about bus drivers getting bonuses for not killing passengers to run the other way. But even knowing that, in the end, public transportation might have been a better choice than the hell we experienced being stranded on the side of the road for 5 hours after renting a car in Panama. And...
Boat on the Panama Canal
We traveled 44,986 miles in 2019, and finally after a decade of travel are starting to understand the allure of luxury travel. It’s not just about nice accommodations and being pampered, it’s about vacation not feeling like work. When you travel as much as we do, sometimes vacations just feel like a burden. The groceries, the cleaning, the cooking... If you...
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Our most magical experience during our family trip to Scandinavia was Husky dog sledding in Norway through the snow blanketed fields of Tromsø. Truly, we had some incredible experiences in the land of Trolls - a spiritual excursion to witness the Northern Lights in Kirkenes, an authentically cultural journey through the North Cape on the Hurtigruten, and even celebrating...
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Our Christmas in Norway was not as uneventful as we had hoped for and certainly did not plan, and not in the good way where Santa surprises you with something you didn't realize you wanted but absolutely have to have now that you've got it. It was wrought with missed flights, a stinky airbnb, and a birthday celebration that...
Creepy Road in Ireland
In the ancient kingdom of Mide in Northern Ireland, the legend of three brothers, Bres, Nár and Lothár weave a tragic story through time compelling the world to offer sacrifices each year as winter settles over the land. In America, we call this Halloween. Halloween in Europe is a little different than what we are used to in...