Day Two: Relax! And drive. It turns out our Maya Beach house is about 25 minutes up the road from the nearest town of any size, Placencia. Somehow, Logan made three round trips into Placencia on Sunday, to shop for food, pick up lunch, and then pick up dinner. You have to drive through the…
Tag: travel
Belize! Oh what a travel day it was.
Day One: We present ourselves at the airport at 5:40 for our 6:25 flight, only to learn that Southwest will not accept our luggage for travel because we’re checking in less than an hour before departure. Cue rush to the car rental facility, where we rented a car and drove to Houston. We arrived in…
Las Vegas!
Sin City feels a lot less sinful with a toddler. I’m not sure what to say about Vegas. It was completely overstimulating for all of us, especially coming from Zion. The national rodeo finals were in town, so there were lots of gentlemen in very large cowboy hats accompanying ladies who wore jeans with festively…
Zion to Las Vegas
Talk about a shock to the system! After several days in national parks in a very sparsely populated part of the country, I almost had a full-blown panic attack on arrival in Vegas. Lights! Colors! People people people! They can still smoke inside here (really!)! Phew. First things first. We woke up at the Zion…
Arches to Zion
Yup, we ran the entire alphabet today! Morning came, chilly and cold, and brought with it a seriously unhappy toddler. Getting packed and ready to go this morning was tough with a kid who wouldn’t be put down, wouldn’t be distracted, and wouldn’t be appeased. Thankfully, some bacon and toast with purple jam (some blackberry,…
Arches National Park (With a Toddler)
Today was… overstimulating for all of us, but in a really good way. I’ve never seen anything like Arches; my own eyes were telling me that the vistas I was clearly seeing must be photoshopped, since there is no such thing as rock that colorful and sky that particular shade of cerulean blue. We woke…
Utah with the Family: SLC Farmers’ Market and Wheeler Farm
Well, since our time in Utah is rapidly coming to a close, maybe it’s time to talk a little bit about what we’ve done since we’ve been here. OK, besides that. Logan’s parents came to visit us back in mid-October, and we drove down into Salt Lake City with them for a bit of autumnal…
Chicago, with a quickness
This fall has been an absolute doozy. Actually, every month since July has qualified for doozy status. Logan got a job working on a TV show filming in Utah, in one of those classic film business we-need-you-here-like-yesterday-but-twelve-hours-from-now-will-have-to-do-and-are-you-available-for-the-next-six-months-kthxbye hirings. Ami and I stayed in Austin to finish out her summer school semester and then followed him…
HOME!
I plan to put these words in order on this page, but man am I exhausted! We woke up on Saturday morning in Tokyo (late afternoon Friday Central time, that is), gathered our things, and hopped on the metro to Ueno Station. There, we picked up the Keisei Skyliner bound for Narita airport. We enjoyed…
Tokyo: The Last Day
Aw, man. I can’t believe I’m already writing about the last day of our trip to Japan! We need to leave our apartment here near Ginza at about 7:15 tomorrow morning to head to Narita to catch out flight, so tomorrow doesn’t really count as a trip day at all. 7:15 isn’t too far away,…
Classy Otter 