Latest Blog Posts

  • The Couple Who Never Grew Up

    We’re in the process of planning a trip to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, so we decided to take a moment to look back at our 20th anniversary trip.  We travel as often as we can, but since we both have full time jobs, not as much as we’d like.  Travel has pretty much become… Read more

  • Empty Nest and Loving It

    Within three weeks of our youngest daughter leaving home for college, we were sitting at the beach in Cabo San Lucas.  As our friends have gone through the same transition from having kids at home to being empty nesters, we’ve seen two typical transitions.  One, like ours, where the couple starts dating again and enjoying… Read more

  • Last Minute Getaway

    We’ve been doing some remodeling on our home and by Friday we were completely exhausted by the noise, dust, and clutter, so we decided to get away for a night.  We made reservations for Saturday night at the Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, which is a beautiful hotel in downtown Denver that we’ve stayed at… Read more

  • Touring Morocco

    Generally speaking, we prefer to visit places on our own as opposed to using a tour guide or being part of a tour group.  We don’t like having to be on someone else’s schedule, so we’ve never gone on a packaged group tour, but on occasion we will use a tour guide or go on… Read more

  • Top 10 Tips for Visiting Yellowstone

    We have been fortunate to have been able to visit Yellowstone National Park over a dozen times in the past fifteen years and through those visits we’ve definitely learned some lessons.  It seems that most visitors to the park drive the various roads that traverse the park, stopping at each of the various landmarks as… Read more

  • Unexpected Nostalgia

    We just returned from Pennsylvania where we were attending the wedding of our son to his wonderful fiancée.  Obviously the point of the trip was to spend time with family and attend the ceremony and reception, but we planned a few extra days so that we could relax as well.  Since the wedding was taking… Read more