If you’ve traveled for any extended length of time you’ve most certainly come across many Westerner’s ultimate bathroom nightmare: The Squatty Potty When traveling you make all sorts of fun bathroom discoveries—toilets without TP, toilet stalls without doors, toilets that don’t have seats, toilets that don’t flush, manual flushing toilets, etc. You won’t need to worry about sink gurgles when toilet is flushed there. Most...

We’re settling well into a new groove in Southern Oregon. We’ve spent so many years moving around, this is a very new experience for us. We’re planting roots, doing a lot of yard work, and the kids are involved in countless activities around the community such as lessons in piano, sewing, art, and gymnastics! As much we love the new groove, however, we do not want our kids’ love of traveling and new experiences to dwindle. We have a...

Well, we’ve had one heck of a busy Fall!  Life keeps on changing at a very rapid pace, despite slowing down in our recent travels (don’t worry—we haven’t blogged about even half of our journeys, so there’s much to come!). The last few months have been filled with the craziness of the arrival of #4 in our clan: If that wasn’t enough of a change, we also made a wild decision to buy a home in Southern Oregon (don’t worry, this...

We’re not light packers. We’re not heavy packers, either. Basically, all of our travel goods can fit in our 5 backpacks (and 3 daypacks). However, on our quick 2-week stint to Vietnam, we decided we didn’t want to take all of our luggage (and pay for it all, either). After all…we were staying in a hotel and wouldn’t be needing everything! We cut our junk down to only 2 backpacks (and 2 daypacks), and after mentioning this on...

I have good news, friends! We were recently featured in a brand new magazine, Real Family Travel Magazine, available exclusively on iPad Newsstand. Okay…so what’s the good news for you??!! The Editor of the magazine has given us a gift voucher to pass along to our readers for a 3 month subscription…no strings attached! For more information on how to claim your gift, please visit: http://realfamilytravel.com/freegift4u The...

Merida is a lovely town. Really, it is. Problem is, we didn’t really get to enjoy it. You see, just a few days into our trip, we found ourselves with a MAJOR crisis. Both my computer, and Jared’s computer, were DEAD. “Great! More time to vacation! Good riddance!”, you say?  I wish!!  The thing is, we fund our travels by running our business remotely, and it means that we absolutely, positively, have to be...