• An Incredible (Solo) Panama Canal Cruise

    This will start just like every other blog post I’ve written lately: “I’d been wanting to go to X for a long time…”. The X in this case is Costa Rica or doing a Panama Canal cruise that hit Costa Rica. Antigua, Guatemala had also been on my short list…

  • Driving Tanks and Crushing Cars!

    On Sunday of my Amazing Race Birthday weekend, I received my last clue: WHAT?!?  I had to read it twice before I busted out laughing.  I had no idea that one could do such a thing and was equally shocked, excited and amused.  Chuck really surprised me with this one.…

  • My Amazing Race Birthday Weekend

    For my birthday this year, Chuck surprised me with an Amazing Race inspired birthday adventure.  I received a vague email a few weeks before my birthday telling me that we were going away from Friday to Monday and a later email said we were doing an Amazing Race.  The afternoon…

  • Family Visit in Oregon

    We went out to Oregon for over a week to visit with Chuck’s brother and his parents.  We stayed busy but had a great time. The first day we went to a nearby farm and had fun visiting the animals and letting the kids play. The next day, we headed…