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italy with dad: hercolano, paestum, casertavecchia, and caserta palace

family , touristing • Sep 30, 2019

My Dad came!!!! We had a whirlwind trip of touring some of the area’s highlights. Dad was so excited to see everything, so it was SO MUCH FUN to be a tourist with him! Here are some photos,…

calabria sea

family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Sep 4, 2019

After Matera, we visited the Calabrian coast, including the beach at Rocca Imperiale Marina and the town of Trebisacce, where we spent the next two nights. I’d been craving the turquoise, clear sea all summer, and I was…

matera

family , touristing • Sep 4, 2019

For Labor Day weekend Matt got a 4-day weekend so we headed toward the south of Italy. Our first stop was Matera. From Wikipedia: Known as la città sotterranea (“the underground city”), its historical centre “Sassi” contains ancient cave dwellings.…

together at carney

family • Aug 27, 2019

Typically I wouldn’t devote a whole blog post just to a family picnic, but I picked up my “real” camera for the first time in maybe a year, and I liked the photos. Similar to the lake, family…

the lake

family , outdoor adventures • Aug 26, 2019

We have found that there are certain things that really work for our family, that bring us a sense of peace and unity, and that just work for each one of us. The lake is one of them. …

around here: games, friends, picnics, and festivals

family • Aug 23, 2019

A Carney Park picnic with friends, lots of kid-friend visits and sleepovers (including Ashton’s first ever 4-girl sleepover!), pool time, a date with Matt to a dinner-and-concert-fiasco-adventure, a beach trip, a hike that I lost the photos from…

montenegro: coast

family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Jul 31, 2019

We arrived at the coast in the bay of Kotor and found our super cute Airbnb, which had awesome views of sea, beach, and mountains. Over the next several days, we drove much of the Montenegro coast and…

montenegro: mountains

family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Jul 31, 2019

We finally got to fly somewhere with Matt! For Matt’s summer leave we went on a family trip to Montenegro. We flew into Split, Croatia, rented a car, and drove through Croatia, Bosnia, and into the mountains of…

girls trip to berlin

beautiful things , family , touristing • Jul 5, 2019

Cedar went to Scouts Camp for over a week and Matt left on a work trip, so Ashton and I went on our own trip… to Berlin. I had heard it was an interesting city, and it was…

umbria: parco dei mostri, orvieto, and terme saturnia

beautiful things , family , outdoor adventures , touristing • Jul 5, 2019

Matt had a Band gig in Orvieto, a town in the Umbria region a few hours north of us. I’ve decided that if I can go to his gigs, I will… so I did! The kids and I…

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