Costa Rica, Tamarindo

Costa Rica, Tamarindo

Family Jumpy Pic (minus one) As always, Miko creates the family a packing list for our adventures! She makes copies for everyone and places them on our beds to help us get our acts together! See below for her recommendations for this trip! We will unpack what we would...
Iceland – Day Three

Iceland – Day Three

Vatnajokull Glacier, Iceland After a cozy slumber in our Iceland hotel, we woke early to get on the road to the excursions planned for the day – hiking into a glacier cave and then a winter visit of Iceland’s Black Diamond Beach. We were able to keep our...
Iceland – Day Two

Iceland – Day Two

Iceland is about 18-25 millions year old. Sounds pretty impressive, right? So you may be surprised to hear it is actually one of the youngest countries in the world! Iceland lies where the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean meet. Iceland is sparsely inhabited,...
Iceland – Day One

Iceland – Day One

hygge (n) a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture – and I would argue Icelandic.) Hygge for the Holidays – our photos from Christmas in...
Rome Revisited & Reflections

Rome Revisited & Reflections

The Pantheon 2018 “When you see the Pantheon for the first time, your mind caves in.” – Anthony Doerr Late last night as the wind howled and rain deluged outside, I reluctantly finished a book I had been trying to slowly savor like a disappearing dazzling sunset. You...