Just a few pictures for you from our weekend. There is so much to do in Chattanooga, but this weekend, when we were at Lookout Mountain for my dad and Gerrit to do some hang gliding, we just spent a morning there. We poked into the little shops in the North Shore district, walked along…
Category: travel
January was so very tough, and one day, when I realized by late June/early July I wouldn’t particularly want to travel, planning a brief beach vacation for the spring helped to get me through a couple of days. And boy did it sneak up on us. Suddenly last week it was time to think about…
Traveling teaches you a lot about yourself. And traveling with my family teaches you an extra amount about yourself because it requires an incredible amount of patience as misfortune after misfortune happens. And it’s not just on big trips either. Even on a weekend trip to Auburn, a trip we make multiple times every year,…
Almost two years ago, for my dad’s birthday, my mom bought him a hang-gliding session. And finally, because the gift certificate expires after two years, my dad went up to Lookout Mountain to hang glide this weekend, and we decided to make a family weekend of it and stay in Cloudland Canyon. It seems like…
I don’t remember how we stumbled across Cinque Terre…I think in doing our research on Italy we saw a picture online and simultaneously said “We have to go there.” And it did not disappoint. It was beautiful, almost surreal. The sea (I just kept reminding myself: this is the Mediterranean!) was a true azul, clear…