I have received compensation for this post from TravelCenters of America. All opinions and work are my own. Planning Vacations as a Military Family “They took away my weekend pass.” He said. “What? How is that possible? We are leaving tomorrow!” I couldn’t believe what he was saying. We had been in Germany just…
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So You Got Stationed Overseas: Why you NEED to make TRAVEL a part of your short PCS abroad
Thanks so much to LeAnna Brown for this guest post! Living in Europe for the past five years as a contractor with the US Army, I have had what most people would call a “Dream Life.” I’ve learned to budget travel and travel hack, so we get to travel extensively and all over the world,…
Photography: Day at an Austrian Zoo
In 2009 we spent Spring break in Austria visiting a friend of mine. She tooks us all over. The first place we went to a zoo. It was a lot of fun and it was great to see a different type of zoo then we were used to.
Our Honeymoon 12 Years Later
I thought it would be fun to tell you about my honeymoon, 12 years after the fact. I might not remember everything about that week but I do remember enough. We got married on August 3rd, 2002 in Santa Rosa, CA. The reception ended about 4 or 5 in the afternoon and after that…
Back From Sunny California
I am back from my 10-day trip to Southern California. It was just the type of break I needed. My husband goes back to work on Monday and it is back to the SAHM role for me until June. My husband is amazing and did quite well with the boys. He is ready to take…
Another Beautiful Day at Knott’s Berry Farm
Growing up in Southern California I have such fond memories of going to Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland as a child. That is why I love taking my boys. Now growing up we usually went to Disneyland during the year and not at all during the summer. We would have yearly passes and most of…
Paradise Springs at Gaylord Texan
I love to travel! Sadly I haven’t been able to for a while and probably have to wait a while more to be able to do it again. So I decided to look for some guest posters to talk about great places to travel. Heather from Dallas Single Mom is going to be talking about the…
Garmisch in Germany
A Trip to Ancient Ephesus
Ben got home from his deployment in November. During the post-deployment block leave, we went on a Mediterranean Cruise. I have been slowly blogging about all the ports 🙂 The next stop on our cruise was Turkey! I loved it! I think visiting the ruins in Ephesus was one of my most favorite parts of…
On the way to Greece…
Here are some pictures from the cruise as we made our way to Greece from Italy. We stopped in Athens. I enjoyed some of what we saw there but it let me down overall. Next time I go to Greece I want to see something else, like the islands. It also was the only place…