Coming home from vacation is hard.
Over the years, even after the best trips, I've wondered why I felt so down. It seemed like a mean joke. I realized a bad re-entry into regular life makes my happy vacation memories...
"This Christmas, I'm going to write to Santa and ask for Ripley's books!"
These are words that I was not expecting to hear from my 6-year-old at all. My mouth gaped open at a loss of words before sputtering incredulously,...
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We only have two children, so technically speaking, we don’t need a 3-row vehicle. An average-sized car or small SUV accommodates two adults and two car seats. Sort of. It’s when you start...
My family of 4 (including a 14 and 16 year old) recently stayed at Cardiff Vacations in Cardiff, California. We were in desperate need of a getaway after the "year of the pandemic" and this was perfect. We drove...
With summer fun coming in hot, who doesn’t want a quick weekend getaway?
Before baby, my husband and I were always going away for the weekend. We would even book trips only a couple days beforehand, and we could...
My family and I recently returned from our first international holiday together. We traveled to Germany for two weeks to spend Christmas and New Year’s with my parents. We took tons of photos, spent hours at the local Christmas...
Over the next five years, one or more of my girlfriends will turn 40, which gives us the perfect reason to take an annual girls' trip in honor of the birthday girl(s) and for the chance to reconnect in...
One of my favorite destinations for a family day-trip from San Francisco is beautiful Half Moon Bay, where my husband and I have been taking our now ten and twelve-year-old daughters since they were babies. With its bucolic fields...
We just took our first family trip since the start of COVID and it felt so good. We spent a few relaxing days in Carmel at the Hofsas House, a Bavarian-style boutique inn.
Over a year ago, when that virus...
I first heard about Great Wolf Lodge during an episode of Undercover Boss about 20 years ago. At the time, I was a teenager and not exactly the Lodge's targeted customer, but I did find it appealing as a...
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For Bay Area families, it’s easy to feel like you’ve already “done” Pier 39 — but taking my crew back recently proved me wrong...
