• Hang Gliding Lessons

    After giving skydiving and paragliding a try, I thought we should give hang gliding a go, too.  Unlike those, where we were passengers with a guide, we would actually do the flying of the gliders ourselves. It didn’t take any convincing for the kids to say “I’m in!”. We were…

  • Riding Sand Rails (Dune Buggy) at Oregon Dunes

    I’ve wanted to see massive sand dunes and go dune buggy riding for a while, so I was really excited when I found out Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area was close to where we were staying on the Oregon coast.  We debated whether we should rent some and drive ourselves…

  • Sea World San Diego

    We never went to Sea World while we were living in San Diego despite being a few miles away and hearing their fireworks show every night during the summer.  I wanted to take the kids but with all the controversy about killer whales in captivity, I decided to stay away.…

  • The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

    Once we decided to go to Oregon and San Diego for our summer vacation, I started pushing to go to Universal Studios in LA.  Beckett and I had just started reading the Harry Potter books in the spring and I was completely sucked into the Harry Potter world (Chuck and…