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I’ve Never Been Here Before {my book}

In June 2022, our family of 7 embarked on a yearlong adventure to 20+ countries, all on a tight budget with only carry-on backpacks. We experienced the countless ways curiosity leads to beautiful discoveries. It was a dream decades in…

A few days in Chichicastenango, Guatemala

Once we bought plane tickets to Guatemala, we began looking for places to visit. (We booked cheap tickets without any other plan or details - 'figure it out later' is my go-to). Breese found information on a market in the…

Tips for staying in a hostel as a family

While traveling we stay in all kinds of different places. Sometimes it is an apartment. Sometimes it’s a hostel. We slept in a cave in Jordan and a hut on the Sinai. Most places I find are on Booking.com, Airbnb,…

Israeli/Palestinian Dual Narrative Tour {Abraham Tours}

I'm sitting in a cute boho style cafe. The wind is blowing off the Sea of Aqaba through the open windows tangling my hair in a million ways. I might have pretty cool dreads at the end of this trip.…

Budget traveling – planning ahead saves $$$

Well, I still need to share some basics about our trip...like WHY we are doing it! Instead of waiting to get all those thoughts together, I figured I'd just start sharing answers to some of the questions I most commonly…

Explore OK {Riversport Adventures}

On the top of our family’s list of new favorite stops in Oklahoma City is Riversports Adventures. If you give us an opportunity to do something adventurous together – we are all in. As part of our trip with Adventure Road, we took an afternoon…

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Explore OK {Myriad Botanical Gardens}

We’ve been spending the last few days in Oklahoma City as a family. Chris travels to OKC weekly for work, but we never tag along. This time around we’ve make the short drive as a family as I worked with Adventure Road to highlight a…

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our white stained wood floors

I was sitting in my living room with a friend talking about how our wood floors needed to be refinished. With 5 kids and lots of their friends running in and out on them, they had taken a beating. I was asking her for advice…

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travel FAQ

This is going to be a long post! While on our recent trip to Utah and Arizona, I was asked a lot of questions related to the trip. I have compiled most of those questions here and tried to combine ones that were similar. Hopefully,…

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Explore UT {Moab}

When we plan trips we have a very tentative schedule. We need a bit of a schedule simply because we must book campsites with the trailer (I’ll post more on that later with the Travel FAQ post). We camped in Moab. It is between Canyonlands…

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