Family Adventures, One Journey at a Time
An American military family of five, currently based in Naples, Italy. From RV adventures in the American Southwest to train rides through Europe, we've learned that home isn't a place - it's wherever we're together.
We took the train to Rome to meet Jen's parents, shared the news about baby number four in front of the Colosseum, then headed north through Bologna and Innsbruck all the way to Garmisch — hot tubs, Zugspitze lunches, Neuschwanstein Castle, and an alpine coaster to close it all out.
Read More →Free access weekend at the ancient Roman amphitheater meant one thing: unleashing 17 kids on two thousand years of history. Capua delivered — the colosseum, the hypogeum, and zero successful meals.
Read More →You know what makes a good trip great? People. We returned to Rome with one mission: meet up with family friends who have six kids - yes, six - and see what happens when you combine their crew with our three. Spoiler alert: chaos, laughter, and memories we'll be talking...
Read More →After the holiday chaos settled, we were itching to get back on a train. Florence had been on the list since we moved to Naples, and with the kids still on winter break, the timing felt right. Back to Napoli Afragola we went, boarding another high-speed train north.
Read More →Three months in, and Naples is starting to feel less like a foreign country and more like our corner of the world. Not home yet - maybe never home - but something close enough. The boxes are unpacked, the kids know which park has the best swings, and we've found...
Read More →Sometimes the best trips are the ones you squeeze in right before life gets busy. With the holidays approaching, we decided to make a quick weekend escape to the Eternal City. Living in Naples puts Rome just a short train ride away, yet somehow we'd been putting it off. Not...
Read More →November marked the beginning of the biggest adventure our family has ever taken. After years in Hawaii, we packed up our lives - all five of us, including an 8-year-old, a 5-year-old, and an infant - and set our sights on Europe. Naples, Italy, to be exact. But first, we...
Read More →Our first trip with the baby, a Hilton resort with its own train, and a pool the kids refused to leave. Big Island on Amex points was exactly the reset we needed.
Read More →There are better ways to start a new year than watching a volcano spit orange lava into an ominous sky. But I can't think of many. We kicked off 2025 on the Big Island of Hawaii, staying in a tiny home Airbnb tucked into a lychee farm, and honestly, it...
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