We certainly take advantage of all the amazing things around us. I love our current location because we’re a quick 28 minute train ride right into Grand Central, a 30 minute drive to the UWS (aka the Lincoln Center, and even Times Square) or UES depending on traffic, a 20 minute drive to all the…
Category: national parks
Yosemite National Park (2024)
The last leg of our California roadtrip (which, by now feels like a lifetime ago) was a few days in Yosemite over July 4th weekend. We rented a Marriott property which was a cabin in the park, which was definitely the right move since the park is huge and would’ve taken an hour to drive…
Kings Canyon & Sequoia National Parks
The summer feels like it’s flying by. I’ve just come back from a girls’ week in Cleveland, Ohio (a blog post will be coming on that soon – don’t sleep on Ohio!), and have been catching up on various interviews and life admin. It feels like we’ve just returned from our CA roadtrip, but in…
Pinnacles National Park
We had a wedding ~40 minutes away from Pinnacles, so visited for a day trip to knock out another NP off our list. We got the National Parks Stamps Passport when S was born and have basically done everything on the east coast, so revel in the opportunity to get a stamp at a new…
California Roadtrip (with two toddlers!)
We’ve just returned from our big family trip of the year. Are we that kind of people now, where we only do one big family trip a year (I am not counting Florida / beach weeks, although I guess eventually that would count as a family trip)? Honestly, maybe, because as much fun as this…
Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina
The other day I was catching up with a friend and they asked me how our trip to Patagonia was. And I realized that I had mostly blacked it out of memory because we had SO much going on during / afterwards. Oops. But I’m catching up now! Our 24 hour travel day My last…
Whidbey Island & North Cascades
[Continued from Olympic National Park] After our drive from Portland to the Olympics which was a stretch of ~3 hours with literally no interesting sites to stop at, the rest of the trip’s drives didn’t seem so terrible since there was more to do along the way. After we checked out of our cute little…
Olympic National Park
The next portion of our PNW roadtrip was 4 days in the Olympics. We are glad we spent this much time here, as it was enough time to see everything we wanted to in the park, but minimized the amount of driving we did each day! This was a perfectly feasible itinerary to do with…
Grand Teton National Park
Ok so it’s almost the end of the year, so I will crank out the last of my blog posts from our National Parks roadtrip a few months back…FINALLY. The last few weeks have been a little crazy, as we welcomed a new puppy PANDA into our home!! He’s been pretty angelic and easy to…
Yellowstone National Park
As usual, I am delinquent on updating my blog posts – but this time there’s not a rush to crank them out before our next trip, given the pandemic! So I will slowly take my time in writing these. I’ve also been pretty lethargic recently, because I’m…[PREGNANT!] What! M and I (ok, mostly I) are…
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