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Travelling with your family can be a great and enjoyable bonding experience, but it can also easily be a time where fights and arguments break out. Here are some tips that should keep everybody co-existing happily while abroad. Wish You Weren’t Here? A family holiday can be a great experience that brings everybody a little [...]
While we are outside a lot as a family, we still have only about a quarter-acre lot in our just-within-city-limits home. So as our kids are growing and all officially-mobile, we’ve been trying to get out where they can have even more room. There’s a reason why they call it the Great Outdoors afterall. They [...]
Why Tour the Outback? Whilst adventure travel is not for everyone, it can offer a unique opportunity to really immerse yourself in a different environment, meet some wonderful people and learn new skills. There is a wide range of different tours on the market, catering for varied interests and budgets. Australia is a great destination for [...]
Traveling with children can be a nightmare even for just a 15-minute trip to the grocery store, so it’s easy to see why most parents cringe when planning for an international travel experience with the kids in tow. The prospect of packing everyone up and ensuring everything is prepared for the trip is only half [...]
National Parks are fast gaining popularity when it comes to hosting stag dos. If you want to have fun, there cannot be a better place than a national park for that. It’s adventurous there and you have access to all kind of fun activities. 10 national parks that you should visit this summer The Great Smokey [...]
So on our recent road-trip my husband had the chance to observe something I’ve been telling him about for months now, and he did not really notice. The mini-van effect. It’s a proven (by me) phenomena that causes men to become desperate in order to preserve their pride. You know that myth about minivans not [...]
So y’all know I’m a big fan of gardens to begin with. But these were beautiful. Truly spectacular and well-maintained. I don’t even want to think about how much work goes into the Creation Museum gardens both in planning and execution. The winding paths bring you to a variety of garden landscapes that even in [...]
Since I finally finished THE BOOK (aka Backyard Farming on an Acre (More or Less)) and turned in the first drafts for the production team to work over, I decided to reintroduce myself to my family. You know – the people who put up with me hiding in the office for the last month, a [...]
If you are anything like me, you have a dinosaur lover in your family. A little boy whose eyes light up when he gets to talk about dinosaurs and what they probably ate, how they behaved, and how to pronounce those huge but very cool names. I’ve got a couple dino enthusiasts in my family, so when [...]
There are few herbs that have as many uses as lavender. Lavender is used in herbal medicine, in aromatherapy, in perfumes, in cosmetics and even in cooking. Although lavender grows around the world, French lavender is often believed to be of especially high quality. Not so long ago I had an opportunity to visit a [...]
