Despite our travels in 2013 and 2014, we hadn’t had an adults-only vacation for about 2 years. Luckily Chuck’s mom Carla came to the rescue, and flew down to babysit the kids while we went to Sonoma and Napa for 4 nights. Our first night was spent with Chuck’s friend…
Our rental house in San Diego was only 30 minutes from the Mexican border so it seemed like the perfect day trip to another country. The kids had also never been to Mexico and so a road trip was born. It was an easy drive to the border and crossing…
When we moved to San Diego, we rented a house for a couple of weeks in Mira Mesa. The backyard opened onto a canyon that turned out to be one of the main flight paths of the Marine’s F/A-18 Hornets so we’d hear them and see them flying every day,…
Kirsten saw a blog post this summer where someone had done a jetpack experience in the ocean, so she said “get me some of that!” Unfortunately she didn’t get quite that, as I booked her onto something called the Jetovator, which is ridden kind of like a jet ski, but…