Like nomads, but with more stuff

The kids and I spent three weeks in the US this year. Starting in MA, we spent time with mom (board games, card games, Cider Hills, and for ...

 #8: Today I am grateful for daylight savings time. I know that isn't popular, but I much prefer Alex biking to school in daylight than ...

What's not awesome? Returning home from vacation to find the freezer door wasn't properly shut and everything is (thankfully) cold ....

 Super heat wave in Alberta, so what outdoor adventure makes the most sense? Taking the canoe out, of course!  We had been by Vermillion Lak...

It is (1) our second successful trip to Jasper and (2) our second attempt to visit Jasper in the winter. So for both of these reasons we sho...

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, a much preferable holiday to celebrate than Columbus Day, although the coincidence of the dates is food for tho...

More accurately, "failure" as it has only been one attempt. We decided to play around with dehydrating the starter just in case we...

Across the street from the Consulate in Olympic Plaza there is a fountain that is made into an ice rink in the winter.  It is free to u...

In the nearly 20 years Terry and I have been together prior to Calgary I can think of five ER visits: each of Alex's broken arms, when ...

Each child has spent a large part of this evening entirely encased in a sleeping bag. First they wandered around testing out life as an inc...

On Sundays in Germany nearly all establishments are closed. Restaurants are largely open, museums of course, but little else. Many folks go...

... too many wheels, to be honest. Right before we returned to post from R and R last year, we bought a cheap car for a cheap price. Then...

  To be very frank, the pollution in Astana has driven us, on all previous holidays, to find refuge in the clean air of western Europe o...

[it's been a grievously long time since my last post. Life hit hard. By life I mean work + bidding + work and more work. I see an end i...

We didn't have any more pockets of free time until Saturday morning so that is when we went to make our second attempt at getting tires...

This car is more needy than a newborn. When we realized what was missing from the car we immediately sent a confident message to the tran...

When our home in Astana is at full complement, we will have received four shipments: UAB (air freight), HHE by Air (extra air freight), POV...

It all started so auspiciously. The pre packout inspection was the most thorough I've seen, he was detailed, wanted to see absolutely e...

We took advantage of the extra day off for the 4th to make a cabin trip. My mom was here that week, she stayed with the kids for the 4 work...

I'm a planner. I like knowing what's going on and what the options are. It's December in the USA and I knew there would be Sant...