Family adventures Archives

How To Decide Where To Visit In Europe

“How are we going to decide what countries we will visit in Europe?” This was an ongoing conversation for us for a long time before we started planning our trip. It was an active part of the conversation as we: Began searching for housesitting...

How We Snuck In 3 “Bonus” Countries During Our 6 Months In Europe

Visiting Europe

This blog post includes affiliate links. If you make a purchase, we’ll receive a commission for making the referral at no cost to you. Altogether in Europe, we visited 12 countries. (During the trip, we also visited friends in Israel, which is part of Asia. Yep,...

House sitting In England For (Almost) Free with Trusted Housesitters

Petsitting, Visiting Europe

Petsitting in England (and many other countries afterward) made our dream of visiting Europe a possibility. My dad was a first-generation immigrant from Scotland to Canada, and other than a trip there with my parents when I was 6-months old, I’d never been back...

Exploring the Fraser Valley in British Columbia

Parks

Summer is a great time of year to explore British Columbia. We traveled with our trailer from Ontario all of the way out to British Columbia this summer. We decided that, since we have to spend the winter in Canada, the best province to RV in is British Columbia...

How we decided to purchase and renovate a Travel Trailer! (why not a motorhome or fifth wheel?)

RV Life

We considered motorhomes, fifth wheels and eventually landed on our travel trailer. Here’s what we were looking for, what were our MUST HAVEs to travel full-time as a family, and the renovations we did to our tiny home (our 1992 Salem Cobra) before we hit the...