Home - Ashley Ann Campbell

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…

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,…

Israeli/Palestinian Dual Narrative Tour {Abraham Tours}

I'm sitting in a cute boho style cafe. The wind is blowing off the Sea of Aqaba through the open windows tangling my hair in a million ways. I might have pretty cool dreads at the end of this trip.…

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…

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…

once upon a time I painted a mural

Our three boys share a bedroom; they have shared since the youngest was a year old. The thing is – the boys just keep getting bigger! The room is about 10’x11′, basically the size of 3 twin mattresses. We’ve been wanting to give them some…

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knock-knock jokes & feeling sad {creating a refuge}

The girls, later joined by two of their brothers, made a cat house out of a packing box. The youngest was a cat…the others worked hard on her home. What started as a box on the ground later became a home on a soft place…

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seasons change – thankfully!

Kids grow up, which means parents constantly enter new phases of life. It seems like just when you get one phase figured out, you enter a new one. You can’t get comfortable long (or ever) as a parent. I’m so thankful for the constant change.…

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both art and artists

I attempted to teach the kids a few basics of using my potter’s wheel. We went over a couple beginner essentials, but then I let them just get a feel for the clay spinning. It was beautifully strange to watch them using my college ceramic…

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making a list {joy robbers}

Stirring oatmeal and jotting down a list in my notebook, my daughter walked up and asked me what I was writing. A few moments earlier I was thinking about how the same things rob my joy over and over again. Why do I let that…

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