The weather was absolutely perfect for the family beach week. There were some breezes but none of the ridiculous, umbrella destroying wind that we had last year and the year before. The ocean was calm every day except our last there, and there was a sandbar that created some nice waves. Some of us, though,…
During our family vacations at the Outer Banks, there are numerous matches of bocce, a game that involves trying to get your balls as close as possible to a small ball. If possible, you want your balls to touch the small ball. In fact, that would be ideal. In order to capture the excitement of…
We have a Saturday-to-Saturday rental at the Outer Banks, which means that leaving at 7am on Saturday is ideal for beating the traffic coming from Maryland and Pennsylvania. We came close, leaving the house at 7:30. There is really only one road to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for travelers coming from the north,…
By the time we toured Rome, most of the group was exhausted. Making the crankiness worse, we had to wake up even earlier than usual to beat the rush hour traffic in Rome. At this point, the fast pace of the trip had really worn most travelers down. Stop one was the Colosseum. Since we…
After the night train experience, the group arrived in Florence a bit cranky from the lack of sleep on the train and the last night in Paris. After breakfast we began a walking tour of the city, which is much smaller than the two we had seen already, with an urban population of about 200,000.…
Our stay in Paris was my favorite part of the trip, because Paris was so different than any American city I have seen and it is so easy to walk around and see cool sights. On wednesday morning, the third day we were in Europe, we boarded the bus and traveled to the Eurostar station.…
I initially thought I’d be able to blog this while we traveled in Europe, but, as it turns out, free wifi access in Europe is awful. On top of that, the pace of this trip was very, very fast. So I took some notes and used the pictures to jog my memory a bit. I…
