• Ooh La La

    Ooh La La

    Part of the fun of this trip has been trying to get to all 50 states. We drove through Florida to Maine in 2022’s adventure home from Dominican, so we had a solid head start. There are some obvious ones that are harder to get than others. Hawaii has always been Madeline’s dream destination and Read more

  • Santa Monica

    Santa Monica

    After a couple days of sitting at home in our Airbnb in a somewhat shady area of LA it was time to find some sun. Thankfully the rain was done and we had a chance to check out Santa Monica before it was time to move on. Last time we were in LA it was Read more

  • Rollin on Rodeo

    Rollin on Rodeo

    Next up on the California tour is the city of Angels. Jacob and I were in Los Angeles in September for the Taylor Hawkins concert and were pleasantly surprised with how much we enjoyed the city. We both said at the time that we wanted to take the kids – and here we are. We Read more

  • Sun Diego

    Sun Diego

    Thankfully everything had dried up and the weather was fairly cooperative for our time in San Diego. They had just gotten over some pretty serious flooding the week before we arrived. You could still smell and feel the damp in our Airbnb. Sometimes we get really nice places. Sometimes we get duped by some really Read more

  • Crayons and Cactii

    Crayons and Cactii

    After overcoming a stomach bug, we were finally able to go to the Crayola Experience. Madeline has been waiting to go to one of these since one of the first iterations of the trip had us staying in Pennsylvania. When we had to rework the trip to exclude PA we promised we would find another Read more

  • It’s all happening … at the zoo 🎶

    It’s all happening … at the zoo 🎶

    You can’t visit San Diego and not go to the zoo. Lucky for us, our airbnb is just around the corner (quite possibly the only good thing about it) and so our first morning in the city we headed over. We realized as we were heading to the zoo that our kids have never been Read more

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