Starting 2018 with Sun, Sand and Family Our 2018 has started off strong. Tomorrow, we head to the Riviera Maya in Mexico to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary. We plan to do a vow renewal ceremony on the beach at sunset. Shortly after returning from Mexico, we trade the sun for snow and head […]
16 Things travel taught us in 2017
16 Things travel taught us in 2017 We had good intentions to write our ‘Year in Review’ post at the end of the year, but unfortunately we didn’t feel inspired to write over the holidays. The final few months of 2017 were not great for us, because of this, but we’re optimistic about the upcoming year. 2018 […]
The first sunrise of 2018 was a memorable one!
New Year’s Eve in Birch Bay, Washington This year we rang in the New Year with friends at a cottage in Birch Bay, located in Washington State about 30 minutes south of the Canada-USA border. We wanted to get away for a few days, but didn’t want to travel too far. When our friends invited […]
Photos of the Iberostar Cancun Resort in Mexico
Iberostar Cancun Resort, Yucatán, Mexico A few months ago I visited Mexico’s tourism capital to attend a conference that was hosted at the Iberostar Cancun Resort. This all inclusive beach resort is located in Cancun’s popular hotel zone. This was a solo trip for work, so most of my time was spent inside the resort […]
Our experience at the Lions Dive & Beach Resort, Curacao
Lions Dive and Beach Resort in Curacao It’s been a while since we wrote about a resort that we stayed at. We try to limit the frequency of hotel and resort reviews we share on this blog, but sometimes the travel experience is the actual resort. Our recent trip to Curacao would fall in this category. Curacao is […]
First impressions and observations from our trip to Aruba
Thoughts from our trip to Aruba It’s been a few weeks since we returned from our first trip to the island nation of Aruba. Now that we’ve had some time to reflect, we’d like to share a few things we learned from this family trip to the Southern Caribbean. Traveling south in the winter has become somewhat […]
15 Photos that will inspire you to travel to Belize
15 Photos that will inspire you to travel to Belize Today we have beach on the brain. It’s still cold, grey and rainy here in Vancouver, so we thought we’d share some photos from our last trip to Belize. Belize still ranks high on our list of ‘countries we will revisit again in the future’. […]
