-
The choices I make, and the choices I don’t
I was out with some frequent traveler friends after the travel show and the topic of how others perceive us came up. Because most assume travel has to be expensive
-
Do you take Oblications? Here are some tips to save!
I just ran across a piece on ABC News that says a whopping $197 Billion a year is spent on “Oblications”: trips we HAVE to take to cross off an
-
Washington, DC weekends archive
Baltimore Aquarium: The perfect two hour tour As a ten year member of the Baltimore Aquarium, I’m shocked at how most visitors get the place exactly wrong. With that in
-
Florida archive
Cheap FL Airfares + $5/Day Car Rentals = Last Minute Spring Break, 2017 I wrote a few days ago about how travel hackers do Spring Break. I should have mentioned another
-
Are you a Third Culture kid?
Are you, or do you have, a 3rd culture kid? While the term generally applies to Military and Foreign service families, I’ve noticed this can also apply to children who
-
Drone Parenting, or why I threw my kids off a mountain in Guatemala
DC Suburbanites are known as being tightly wound, ambitious over-achievers. We’re also often accused of being “Helicopter Parents”. You know the stereotype: our kids are surrounded in bubble wrap, given

