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…

our ‘bigger’ tables {Article Seno Table}

It is pretty incredible to be at a point where things I envisioned over 8 years ago are coming to fruition! We still have a ways to go before everything is done, but one by one we are finally getting areas complete. Our back porch…

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Custom Nook Table {by my dad}

Yesterday, I shared the journey of building our breakfast nook. Today, I wanted to tell you a bit more about our table. Once my dad finished building the benches for the nook he asked me what I was doing for the table. Surely he knows…

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The breakfast nook {reveal}

On April 24, 2018, I sat my eldest daughter down across from me on plywood and handed her a drink in a mug. I began telling her about how one day there would be benches and a table where we sat. We dreamed about what…

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a home that asks why

There are those that are inclined to their feelings and those inclined to thinking. Obviously, we all do both, but some of us naturally lean more one way. I’m a thinker – and I don’t lean just a little bit that way, but I’m flips…

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laying our floors {& our sources}

Blood – yep. Sweat – yep. Tears – big yep. It took us a month, but we finally finished our floors. Everyone asks why we decided to do our floors ourselves. Wouldn’t it be easier to hire them out? Yes, of course, it would be…

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