There is so much to see in the Azores. Depending on how much time you have, you’ll have some choices to make about what to see and what to skip. To make the most of your trip, don’t miss these 10 things when visiting Sao Miguel: 1. Beautiful viewpoints and vistas Sao Miguel is dotted by incredible viewpoints and vistas. As we road tripped around the island, we pulled over often to take in the scenery. As you’re traveling around,…
If they’re not already, the Azores Islands deserve a spot on your vacation short list. These Portugese islands are in the Atlantic Ocean, about a three hour flight from the mainland (or a 5 hour flight from the East Coast USA). The islands are accessible, affordable, easy to get around, beautiful, and so much fun! I can’t recommend a trip here enough. For this trip, I was traveling with my pal Katharine. Unfortunately, John didn’t have enough time off work to…
The five days we spent in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks were some of the best of our summer road trip! The parks are just gorgeous and have so many interesting and unique features, like tons of geothermal activity, big, beautiful mountains, and ANIMALS! Fun fact: Yellowstone is often described as the best place for a safari game drive in North America. Planning your own visit or just curious about our experience? Here are some of our tips for…
After our time in Canada we spent one weekend in Boston to celebrate my mom’s 60th and my sister’s graduation: After this fun weekend, we hit the road for our big ol’ USA adventure! The first few days were filled with driving, driving, and more driving as we put in the miles to get us out west where we planned to do most of our exploring. Thankfully, we had lots of friends and family to see along the way. Here’s…
Welcome Home! After returning to the good old USA at the end of April, we had a few weeks at home to see family and friends. Some of the highlights: We were warmly welcomed at the airport in DC by my mom and at home by my dad. John’s mom and family friend Pat drove down from NJ to see us later that afternoon! Our friends organized an awesome welcome home party on our first weekend back, with surprise visits…
After our two week road trip around New Zealand we returned to Australia for another week of fun down under. This time we arrived in Melbourne and decided to take a road trip on the Great Ocean Road which stretches for nearly 250 km along the southeast coast of the country. We rented a campervan through Jucy and had a blast. The van was a converted Toyota minivan which had the middle seats removed and replaced by a bench that…
New Zealand is one of the places we’ve been most excited to visit; we heard great things about the people and expected the scenery to be awesome. It lived up to the hype and we had the most fun road trip here with my dad who flew to meet up with us for two weeks! What a treat! We rented a car from Rent-A-Dent in Christchurch (which is much nicer than it sounds) and spent two weeks exploring the South…