Location is key when visiting Paris, even more so when you’ve never visited before. With three days in Paris planned for our big Europe trip, we knew that we needed to choose a good one. Paris hotels have a reputation for being on the small side, and my family does not travel light, so our Read more
Mornings that begin before 7:00 am are pretty awful. Mornings that begin before 7:00 am and you have to debark a cruise ship? They’re downright miserable. The cruise portion of our trip had slowly ticked by and then passed us in a rush all at once. Sometimes, it felt like we’d been away for the Read more
I didn’t get a lot of sleep on that last night. I never do on last nights on cruises. It’s not because I want to savor every last moment or delay the inevitable return to normalcy. It’s because…my spidey senses start tingling somewhere between 2:30 and 4:30 in the morning. Almost every time. And by Read more
Hot. Bright. Muggy. Sunny. Ending. We were already docked in Old San Juan when I woke up. My cellular-services-are-available sense failed me. So did that liter and a half of water I drank the night before. The sun streamed into our cabin, blinding our eyes and waking us to the harsh reminder that we had Read more
My cell phone service senses were tingling bright and early (well, dark and early), but man, they were far off. I kept waking up, convinced it was my spidey-like senses telling me my reception had returned, and we still weren’t quite within AT&T’s service zones. We finally docked around 5:30 am. Mom and Stephanie were Read more
