Visit Date: Spring/Summer 2025 What an incredible 10-week cross-country road trip adventure we’ve had, exploring our wildly diverse country. We drove 13,700 miles, hitting 43 destinations in 25 states. 18 of these destinations were visiting our amazing National Parks. We drove our own SUV and stayed in hotels each night. We left on May 8th and returned July 19th, and...
Visit Date: May 2021 Itinerary PDF to print This is our family post-vaccine celebration trip! We looked at a lot of possible US destinations that would be good in May, and we went back and forth about driving vs. flying, but flying opened up many more options. Savannah has been on my wish list for a while, so I started there in piecing together the itinerary. I...
Visit date: September 2021 Itinerary PDF to print Our 2-week time frame drove our itinerary – there were a couple of places we cut out and many places we would have loved to spend more time – but overall it was a dream trip that made us feel we had truly experienced the area. We visited 4 national parks (Rocky Mountain, Arches, White Sands, and Carlsbad Caverns) and...
Visited April 2011 Itinerary PDF to print Our week-long road trip to the Southwest in 2011 was the first time that we had friends ask to borrow our itinerary afterwards. We know of 3 friends who have taken a version of this trip, and others have shared it with their friends. We flew from Boston into Phoenix, explored Sedona, had some fun stops on the way to the Grand...
Visited September 2021 Also, be sure to check out the post about our whole 15-day Colorado-New Mexico-Utah trip. Update: January 2022 – Arches is now piloting a timed-entry ticket program. I have been looking forward to seeing Arches for some time. We’ve been to the Grand Canyon 3 times with a variety of other National Parks, and each time I’ve tried to squeeze...
Over the years I’ve taken my share of typical team shots with the back row standing, front row kneeling. Of course, when the kids are really young, keeping everyone looking at you for long enough to get one good photo is a win. When my daughter started high school volleyball, I decided to up my game and get more creative with the team shot. Here are a few of my...
One of the best perks of freelance marketing is the opportunity to work with clients in different industries doing interesting things. For instance, it was a lot of fun learning about the prototype Zero Energy Home designed by Mark J. Leonardi Architect. Cool stuff!
When I started the #100happydays challenge, it really had nothing to do with trying to be more happy. I’m naturally a glass-half-full type. I had been contemplating a #Project365 photography challenge, but that seemed so overwhelming. So a 100-day challenge with some direction seemed like a good place to start – and ending with a gratitude journal of photos was a...
Sometimes a commercial stays with you, often because it makes you feel good. Perhaps you’re now thinking of a long-ago Coca-Cola commercial or a Budweiser one? For me, the hundreds of thousands of bouncy balls in the Sony Bravia ad from 2005 comes to mind. I still remember that “fun” came to mind I first saw the ad –who doesn’t have fond memories of playing with...
There’s something about water’s ability to stir creative juices. My old boss and I would often start a sentence with, “Had a shower idea this morning…” and you knew whatever came next would be out of the box. I started swimming the past few years and have found that the pool has a similar effect for me. In the middle of laps I’ll often flush out a concept or...