Southern Spain - August 2025
Spain August 2025 Aug 4th Arrived at 11:30 AM on the redeye (delta) , nobody slept very well and we are all a bit blurry. We grab a taxi from the airport to o...
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Europe - April 2024
April 19, 2024 Departed JFK on Brussels Airways on the redeye Thursday night. Flight was a little bit late and a little bit crowded but overall pretty pleasant....
Scandinavian - August 2022
Aug 19 Arrived on Norse Atlantic flight, everybody had their own row on a 787. Got the train from the airport and then walked from the train station through th...
Scotland - 2019
Made it to Scotland for the Fringe Festival and so much more! Aunt Lisa joined us on this one!
Southern Africa - Summer 2018
June 28, 2018 – Day 1 NYC – Cape Town (Southern Africa) 14 years after our trip together, we are making good on our promise to bring our kids to South Africa....
Iceland - 2017
Winter break in Iceland with Aunt Lisa!
Ireland - September 2016
September 1st - Day 1 Landed in Shannon at 7:00am after an overnight flight from EWR. Easy flight and everyone is excited. Bags collected! Car rented. AVIS guy...
Western Europe - August 2015
Day 1 - Aug 3rd Landed Heathrow @ 10am. Easy, customs & immig. Taxi (£80.00) to Muswell Hill (Fortis Green Rd. apt of Sara Brier – friend of a friend R 339). S...
Central America - 2008
Back on the road with a new 2 year old in tow. El Salvador and Nicaragua were top of the list. El Salvador Nicaragua
Europe - 2006
The big fear, for a couple of travel geeks like Karen and JD, was that having a child would mean an 18 year travel hiatus. Our 2006 trip to Europe was a sort of...
Oz + NZ + Bali - 2005
With big plans to SCUBA and wine taste our way across the Southern Hemisphere, we bought tickets to New Zealand and Australia. A few days before departure, Kare...
French Polynesia + Easter Island 2004
For our fifth wedding anniversary, Karen threw open the big travel coffee table book in our living room and said "I want to go there!" And so we went. The best...
Southern Africa 2004
For a job in 2003, JD went to0 South Africa to dive with sharks. In 2004, JD and Karen headed back for one of the most ambitious and amazing trips to date.
India 2003
In the late 1990s, we were introduced to friends of friends - Jonlea and Bob who (at the time) taught at the American School in Cairo (we spent some time with t...
South America - 2002
Once again, we made world travel a group endeavor, tempting our friends to join us for pieces of an epic journey through South America. Karen and JD did the fir...
Southeast Asia - 2001
Another group trip with a couple new faces and a serious bout of Mefloquine paranoia. None the less, a one in a lifetime mix of temples, beaches, and cultural e...
Middle East - 2000
In 2000, we made one of our most ambitious trips to date, a 6 week backpacking trek from Istanbul to Cairo over land. As I type this up in 2025, it seems absurd...
Mexico and Latin America - 1999
As the final days of the millennium wound down and everyone panicked about Y2K (look it up, youngsters), Karen and I pondered where to ring in the new year. I w...
Thailand - 1999
I'm still hunting down journal entries from this trip but here's what I remember. A group of dear friends from Los Angeles took an adventure to Thailand togethe...
Europe - 1998
In 1998, JD was hired as an actor on the short-lived (but very fun) New Adventures of Robin Hood. The show was filmed in Lithuania and, as his time on the show...