Morocco is a beautiful country with diverse landscapes ranging from the jaw-dropping peaks of the Atlas mountains to the golden sand dunes of the Sahara to the rocky coastline. During a couple of our long weekends, we escaped the hustle and bustle of Marrakech to explore the quieter side...
Arriving in Marrakech was a sensory overload after spending the majority of our time the last couple months in small medieval towns around Germany and Italy. This is the first time I truly felt intimidated by a city and, at first, was wondering what we were thinking staying here for a...
After a wild and crazy month with Jen and Kari visiting us in Amalfi and Adam and Julie visiting us in Germany/Belgium, we had no time to actually plan our last two weekends in Germany. We had barely seen much outside of Munich, so tackling the whole country was a bit overwhelming...
Belgium – home of the best beer, chocolate, waffles, and fries in the world. As Adam pointed out in the previous blog post, the four of us (him, his wife Julie, me, and Jimmy) had been wanting to go to Oktoberfest together for about a decade. For the majority of my life though, I...
♦Guest post by Adam Ledford♦ Alysia, Jimmy, my wife Julie, and I had talked about going to Oktoberfest for at least a decade before we finally made it happen. Julie and Alysia finishing grad school pushed it off. The “dream trip” got pushed off again by the collective expenses, training...
With Munich as a home base, and access to a great train system, day trips to villages within Bavaria and the Austrian town of Salzburg are easy. Salzburg is famous for being the birthplace of Mozart and the setting of the musical The Sound of Music. Alysia was excited about the various...