Home - Ashley Ann Campbell

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…

breezeway {done…until I decide to change it}

We are still finishing up the construction we started almost 3 years ago. When we added onto the house, we connected the new kitchen to our studio space. The plans to connect the spaces were drawn up about 8 years ago. After the main construction…

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Our Gallery Wall {my process}

I wanted to take some time to answer a few questions I’ve received about the gallery wall in our gameroom. The best way for me to answer the questions is just to walk you through my process – it is imperfect and wonky and a…

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one shot before they drive

When we took our daughter floating for her 10th birthday I kept thinking how much fun Corbett and his friends would have doing the same. Floating the Illinois River is kinda a part of the teen and college years for many Oklahomans. If you know…

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the feet on the back of my rower

As a team of three we tackled a workout together. Cindy was pulling on the rower so hard the whole machine would lurch back. Instinctively, Jenn and I stepped on the back of the rower to hold it in place, so Cindy could keep giving…

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investing in friendships {seasons}

When my kids were all babies and toddlers they went where I went. Their friends were the kids of my friends. We had play dates at parks. We went as a stroller entourage to the zoo. We piled into little living rooms among diapers and…

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