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. Nobody slept very well. Landed in Brussels, grabbed a couple of croissants and a coffee, and then a train to Bruges. Weather

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 the local park to the Radisson Blu hotel. Massive line to check in, took over an hour. Small but clean and

Made it to Scotland for the Fringe Festival and so much more! Aunt Lisa joined us on this one!

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. Of course, back when we made this promise, the very idea of even having kids was absurd. Now, our party

Winter break in Iceland with Aunt Lisa!

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 gives us a map (no phone no GPS) and good directions and we head down toward Killarney. Enzo is baffled by

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). Sabre the cat. Enzo & I picked up essentials. Found playground w/ zip line great fun. Visit to Embankment,

Back on the road with a new 2 year old in tow. El Salvador and Nicaragua were top of the list. El Salvador Nicaragua

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 defiant way to get back out on the road, this time as a party of 3.

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, Karen found out she was pregnant with our first child and, thus, we spent our trip absorbing the amazing sights and coming to

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 (and at the time) only way to get to Easter Island was on a flight between Santiago

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.

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 them during our Middle East trip in 2000). By the time 2003 rolled around, they had relocated to New

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 first and last parts of the trip alone, but Michael, Sara, and Kelley joined for Machu Picchu and Daniel swooped in

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 eye-opening. Angkor War Vietnam Thailand

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 to have traveled this part of the world but at the time it was safe and, all

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 was working at Laguna Playhouse playing the title role in Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Karen was going a

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 together in 1998. Michael, Sara, Rich, Michelle and - of course - Karen and JD. Bangkok, Chang Mai, Ko

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 came to a close, Karen flew over and joined him for a backpacking trip through Europe that culminated