Southern Maine
As the rain pours down outside, the girls have made a fort of our outside shed and built cars out of cardboard boxes. While they play (mostly) happily, I decided I’d better start catching up on our...
View ArticleBoston
Final stop on our big ‘Girls Getaway 2015’ was Boston. At the start of the trip I had visions of doing the Freedom Trail or other major famous Boston things…but by the time we rolled in to Chez...
View ArticleLilly’s Advenures That She did in Ireland
This is Lilly’s story of her trip to Ireland in her own words: We stayed in a cottage. It was small…no actually, it was cold. We saw a stone wall fort but we saw cows in the fort. And when we were...
View ArticleTrinity’s Adventures and Excitement in Ireland
Trinity recounts her trip. Written exactly as she told it: On Monday we went to The Burren and saw a really old church and a Celtic Cross. Next we went to a fort that we thought we were going to see...
View ArticleRound Ireland with a Guitar
While I certainly can’t top our girls’ stories about our recent family trip to Ireland, I thought I would finish up with a few last thoughts. Ireland was a trip that came about almost by accident in a...
View ArticleHangin’ With the Gentoo – Patagonian Penguins
Our first full day in Tierra del Fuego was PENGUIN DAY! I’ll save information about the tour for the very end of the post so that we can pretty much head straight into pictures. The day started with...
View ArticleTierra del Fuego – Laguna Esmerelda
This hike is why people go to Tierra del Fuego. Okay. Not this hike, specifically, but hikes like this. Hikes that involve varied landscapes, wild terrain, breathtaking vistas, and glacial lakes – all...
View ArticleUshuaia, Martial Glacier Hike
Martial Glacier is easily the most popular hike in Ushuaia, probably because there is easy access, it offers great views of Beagle Channel, and it’s not particularly long. If I’m being honest, I wasn’t...
View ArticleWalking on Water – Perito Moreno Glacier Hike
I’m pretty much just going to let the photos speak for themselves on this experience. What’s not to love about getting to strap on a pair of crampons and explore glacial terrain? The tour ended with a...
View ArticleEl Chaltén – Hiking to Mt. Fitz Roy
This was, hands down, one of our favorite days of the trip. And it was a day that almost didn’t happen. The question mark about this day began upon our arrival in El Calafate. We rented our car through...
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