Part One Part Two Knowing that travelling across the world and spending 10 days in a foreign country where you don't speak the language can be overwhelming and exhausting, we planned our trip with the framework that it would get easier as we went along. Thus, we started in Kowloon, moved to Hong Kong Island,… Continue reading Spring Break 2026: Hong Kong (Part Three) – Disneyland
(Part One here) On March 20th we checked out of the Dorsett Mong Kok and took the MTR to...the Dorsett Wan Chai. We had booked our hotels well before our trip and I was a little nervous about booking two hotels in the same chain. Because if it turned out horribly, over half our vacation… Continue reading Spring Break 2026: Hong Kong (Part Two) – Wan Chai
Last August, Peter and I took the plunge and bought tickets to fly to Hong Kong. This has been a trip we've talked about making together for years. Maybe since we first started dating seriously. We talked about going before we had kids but ended up spending a month travelling through Europe instead. We talked… Continue reading Spring Break 2026: Hong Kong (Part One) – Mong Kok
Hello, I'm continuing the saga of Hiking with Dad. Once Rose and I had completed our hike of Tin Hat Mountain, I was home for two nights with the whole family (in which I frantically continued to build a fence) and then Pearl and I headed off on our annual adventure. Our goal this year… Continue reading Guest Post: Sunshine Coast Trail 2025 Pt. 2
This is a long, non-bookish post featuring a lot of pictures of my family and dinosaurs and beautiful scenery. Don't say I didn't warn you. Let's begin. It started with a t-shirt from the thrift store. As many kids do, our oldest, Pearl, went through a dinosaur phase when she was younger. She loved watching… Continue reading Summer 2025 Highlights: Part 3 (Road Trip Edition)
Hello, it’s another installment of Hiking with Dad. This year Rose and I covered part of the Sunshine Coast Trail that goes up Tin Hat Mountain, down to a place called Fiddlehead Landing, up another big hill to Confederation Lake, and then a final long descent to Inland Lake where we parked our car. I… Continue reading Guest Post: Sunshine Coast Trail 2025
Summer is, hands down, the best time to be here on the Sunshine Coast. Every year we struggle with the fact that summer is our time with a looser schedule and so our opportunity to travel, versus the fact that it's so darn nice where we already live. School finished in the last week of… Continue reading Summer 2025 Highlights: Part 1
In a different world, we might have spent Spring Break in California. We'd gone so far as getting our girls passports in order and looking at flights to Los Angeles. But between wildfires and politics, we decided to stay closer to home this year and so we took 2 mini vacations in familiar spots. Spring… Continue reading 2025 Highlights: Spring Break
At the end of August, after I finished off my busy work period with the Writers Festival, we took one last family trip for the summer and headed across the border to the Olympic Peninsula. We've done several trips through Washington over the years but had yet to explore this area of the state. We… Continue reading 2024 Highlights: Olympic Peninsula
We've reached that part of the summer when the end is beginning to appear in sight. I always have mixed feelings at this time of the year. I like the return to routine and the chance for new habits that September offers. But I love and will miss the freedom, fun, and warmth of summer… Continue reading 2024 Highlights: Hotel Lake and More
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