• A few days in Chichicastenango, Guatemala

    Once we bought plane tickets to Guatemala, we began looking for places to visit. (We booked cheap tickets without any other plan or details – ‘figure it out later’ is my go-to). Breese found information on a market in the mountain town of Chichicastenago, home to the K’iche’ Maya (the largest of the 22 Mayan groups). There is a market daily, but on Thursdays and Sundays, it explodes with vendors…

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  • Tips for staying in a hostel as a family

    While traveling we stay in all kinds of different places. Sometimes it is an apartment. Sometimes it’s a hostel. We slept in a cave in Jordan and a hut on the Sinai. Most places I find are on Booking.com, Airbnb, or Hostelworld. My kids favorite…

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  • Budget traveling – planning ahead saves $$$

    Well, I still need to share some basics about our trip…like WHY we are doing it! Instead of waiting to get all those thoughts together, I figured I’d just start sharing answers to some of the questions I most commonly get. If you’ve been following…

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  • We bought them (1 one-way tickets to North Africa)

    After years of traveling in our Avion, we began looking for an Airstream that we could completely remodel to fit our specific family needs. We especially wanted a double axel for safety reasons and scoured online for years to find that model in a certain…

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