Like nomads, but with more stuff

Not only did we start camping when we arrived here three years ago, but we have been covetously looking at campers. With nighttime temperatu...

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 ...

 Since the last post, way back in January ...  We've skied. Literally every weekend since January 8 at least one member of the family sk...

 I'm back from three weeks in Doha helping move Afghan evacuees from Arrival Point #1 (Doha) to either Final Destination (for American c...

Our last day in Vancouver, the kids had their afternoon hour-playing-in-the-pool-because-they-can't-hide-in-the-room-all-day-like-mushro...

On Wednesday the day started the same. Because I knew in advance the kids weren't doing much in the afternoon, I didn't mind when a ...

[Disclaimer: Anything you think of to do in Vancouver, we probably didn't do it.  Terry was working, I was working, we didn't have a...

Saturday we were up and out the door to a well-recommended hiking trail - Boom Lake. It was our longest hike as a family - over 10km. Terry ...

November and December being on different calendar pages, it didn't occur to me I was booking two weekends in a row when I looked at the ...

We dedicated Saturday of our Jasper long weekend to Moraine. Moraine Canyon is about 15 minutes outside Jasper, with Moraine Lake another 30...

The day was absolutely not over yet! Due to our several stops, we managed to get to the hotel just a bit over check-in time, which meant we ...

  We had lots of plans for the road between Revelstoke and Lake Louise. First stop, the Giant Cedars Boardwalk. It is technically an easy Re...

We discovered when we arrived in Revelstoke two hours before check-in time - a set-in-stone time that would not be amended - that most of w...

That's British Columbia. See, the week before our vacation Terry was supposed to TDY to Vancouver. This of course means we were all supp...

In all our years living overseas, we have always had exactly one car. In the U.S. there are always many, many justifications that ensure we...

A short while before we pulled into our campsite at the Lower Lake it started to rain. We thought to unload the car and realized that woul...

We decided not to cancel our hotel reservation in Fernie, British Columbia, when we modified our trip. That was pretty dumb, in hindsight, ...

We got to the campsite around 6pm and top priority was simultaneously setting up the tents and getting the cooking started. Oh, and we had ...

The next morning we headed out to what was supposed to be the highlight of a trip to Waterton - Red Rock Canyon. Well, our kids have an ...

Our original plan for a July vacation involved spending a few days in Waterton, then crossing the border into Glacier National Park and maki...