walking on travels

The kids and I are back from Europe! These past weeks I’ve taken a look back on my past European adventures to celebrate. Many were when I was traveling before Mike and I got married, while others were from our earliest escapades as a couple. Either way it was exciting to hop down memory lane. [...]

I have a lot of photos. That is putting it mildly. I’ve taken tens of thousands of photos since my dad first handed me a camera when I was 8 years old. For the rest of the summer, and maybe beyond, I’m going to dive into my archives and rediscover a few fun adventures I’ve taken [...]

Seattle is bursting with green spaces. There are many that people know about but also a few hidden gems. We stumbled across one such spot while looking for the Chinese Garden in West Seattle. On the South Seattle Community College campus, across the parking lot from the auto shop, lays a compact, yet impressive arboretum. [...]

Over the past year I’ve done a lot of research on things to do in Seattle that are free, beautiful, obscure, fun, off the beaten path and/or just plan silly to even think about doing with a toddler (traipsing through a cemetery looking for Bruce Lee comes to mind.) Last summer I came across the [...]

My friend Nicole over at Camera Crypt sent me some beautiful pictures from her recent tour through the Bloedel Reserve. This is an old estate that was developed into a public garden and covers over 150 acres on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, just a short ferry ride from Seattle. I have been dying to [...]

I began stalking the local farmers’ markets on the Big Island of Hawaii. I’m not ashamed to admit it. I’m a glutton for fresh fruit and veggies. They make me happy, feed my family and keep our junk food intake to a minimum. Well in theory at least. The Hilo Farmers’ Market was a lot [...]

A couple of weeks ago I looked at Dek and said enough. We were going to go outside. It wasn’t raining…at the moment. We would do a quick morning trip down to the Japanese Garden to see what was in bloom. Dek gave me no argument, so we headed out the door. I drove along [...]

There is one thing you need to know about Hilo before you head down. It rains. A lot. There is no specific rainy season. You can’t avoid it by planning your visit around a certain month or time frame. Rain is just part of life when you live on the east side of the Big [...]

The Big Island of Hawaii consists of a whole lot of lava. And what color is lava? It’s black. With so much lava lying around it is bound to make some sand. So what was all the fuss about? Why did people say there were only a few black sand beaches on the island? We [...]