This was photo was shot on a road trip that the three of us took through eastern Washington, Oregon and Northern California in the spring of 2004. It was Easter and both Denise and I were a little stir crazy from the long winter shut indoors figuring out how to be parents with and infant child. We blasted south and [...]

Last summer while travelling through Spain our family had to maximize our budget for accommodation in order to stretch out the trip to last the whole summer. I have been using sites like VRBO and Homeaway to get great deals on condos and apartments in North America for years and new the value of that kind of accommodation for extended stays. [...]

Continuing the on the travel theme I thought I would publish my TripAdvisor travel map. If you have not already started using TripAdvisor.com for investigating hotels by reading the reviews of the traveller reviewed properties then I strongly recommend that you do before next trip. The site has been around now for a number of years and there [...]

I did list this site as part travel and this is my first tip in that category. I have been going through some of my travel pictures to post here on the blog and I am continuing to be gravitated to the pictures of warm sunny climates…not sure why that is in these dark days of winter. Anyhow [...]

Well as we head into the new year and begin 2009 with a clean sweep of all things 2008 one can’t help but run into ghosts from the past. It seems that it was just yesterday that Noah was fascinated and could not get enough of all things Toy Story. It was only a year ago that [...]

I was thinking to myself today, as the snow finally started to ease it’s icy stranglehold from around the neck of this ill prepared city, I could use a vacation in the sun. It was exactly one year ago that we were prepping for the sunny sub-tropical climate of Orlando and Key West. That margarita actually cost [...]

I started the morning by putting the rest of the bacon from ’09 out of it’s misery in a bacon and egg sandwich and then decided to work out on the Wii Fit. I had to do it as it was sitting in the fridge yelling “Eat me” every time I went in for something healthy. With that out of the [...]

This blog is built on WordPress 2.7 and so I thought that I would pay a little tribute by publishing some top plug-ins that were voted on over at MakeFive.com. Do you agree with the list? Why not suggest your own over at MakeFive. See more: Best WordPress Plugins

So it’s that time of year again. That time of year that so many of us make resolutions! Have you made any mad cap unattainable ones yet? Say like quitting [anything] cold turkey, loosing [x] amount of unsightly poundage, be more [blank] to people, not hate everybody you meet right away, etc, etc? Well I have made a [...]