While wandering the streets of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Ryan and I had an unintentional cross-cultural edventure. We passed an alleyway with a direct view of a neighborhood Buddhist Temple. Thai temples are topped with elaborate rooflines including beautiful roof peak...
Tuscany Cooking Class in the Spannocchia Kitchen
Our family participated in a “field to table” cooking class at Spannocchia. 9 AM found us gathering with four other guests and Sarah, the Guest Services Intern, and Sara, who took us on a detailed tour of the gardens....
Footsteps of Jesus: Let’s start in Jerusalem
For the next couple weeks we will be pilgrims through Israel and Palestine on a Footsteps of Jesus tour with our dear friends and mentors, Bob and Pam Rognlien. After years of saying, “Next year in Jerusalem,” we are...
“Sleep Tight” and other English Sayings We Still Use Today
On our day trip of the Cotswolds and Stratford Upon Avon, we took a tour of the birth place of William Shakespeare, the childhood home of his wife, Anne Hathaway, and a working Tudor-era farm. While we were aware...
Fashion Museum Bath
Our first “hop off” of our Hop On Hop Off Bus ride in Bath, England was to the Fashion Museum. Joy, in particular, has her own sense of style and is curious about fashion and costume design. We figured...
St. Petersburg Arts and Theater
Mariinsky Theater and Backstage Tour We had a wonderful private backstage tour of the Mariinsky Theater! The Mariinsky Theater was developed on site of an old circus. In fact, the current building maintains the location of the original “Big...
Iceland wins over England 2-1!
Of all the nights to be in Reykjavic, we happened to be here when Iceland was playing their second game of the Euro Cup 2016. Amazing for such a tiny country!! And it seemed like every Icelander who wasn’t...
We’ve got a ticket to ride! First One-Way Plane Tickets
Our World Edventure just got real! Our world trip moved from being a conceptual, on paper, planning process to reality on Oct 19, 2015. It was the day we purchased our first “one-way” plane tickets. One-way tickets are amazing...