Pictures of Downtown Leavenworth at Christmastime were the jumping off point for planning our entire Christmas trip to Washington. The final itinerary looked nothing like what the original plans had been. An Amtrak ride from Seattle turned into a drive in a rental car. A full week downtown was shortened to allow time in both […]
One year before our trip to Seattle and Leavenworth, I stared at the flurries drifting outside the window of our hotel in Tokyo and silently begged them to stick. It would probably mess up our plans for the day but I didn’t care. I wanted it to snow on Christmas. Despite being born and raised […]
My toddler and I spent almost 12 hours in Seattle’s Centurion Lounge and lived to tell the tale. And then a week later we did it again. I’m the world’s best procrastinator. Case in point, we had made the decision to visit New York City several months before I got around to looking for flight […]
Last year, my family and I headed back to New York to visit places and friends we had left behind two years earlier when we relocated to Honolulu. We also were excited to enjoy the colder weather that the east coast could provide. Instead, a heatwave left us sweltering in nearly 100-degree weather. We ended up […]
