Fran on August 15th, 2009

This is part of a survival guide I have figured out while traveling. It’s easier when there are two parents traveling because when situations get too much for one adult the other can take over. Things have been pretty intense at times over the past 14 months; Katie and I have been together pretty much [...]

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Fran on August 4th, 2009

I found this fantastic educational game online the other day while browsing through the internet. It is a great introduction for children to culinary etiquette from several countries around the world. It’s called Don’t Gross Out The World and Katie loved it. It’s a cute way to introduce children to other countries, purely for education, [...]

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Fran on August 2nd, 2009

When I travelled to Mexico I decided to forego carrying around a heavy guidebook which had been one of the biggest trials of the trip. When someone told me that I could just purchase and download only the chapters I required from Lonely Planet’s website I thought I would give that a shot for this [...]

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Fran on June 4th, 2009

Here is a list of gadgets we took on our trip that proved indispensible. And just to be balanced I’ve included a couple that we could have survived without.

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