by Marybeth Bond | Aug 1, 2016 | Volunteer, India, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Kenya, Cancun, South Africa, Giving Back, Travel, Mexico, Featured, AFRICA, Travel
Volunteer Vacations Many tourists hunt for a meaningful service project overseas, however, most volunteer vacations are for a week or longer. Family Vacations What do you do with three teenage kids in Cambodia? Anthony Damaschino found a unique opportunity for his...
by Marybeth Bond | Jul 5, 2016 | Adventure, Featured
Bike tours? Wasn’t it enough to take bike tours? Well no. For reasons that made perfect sense to us, but not to my husband or most of my friends, we chose to bike from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, camping, preparing our own meals and charting our own...
by Marybeth Bond | Jun 26, 2016 | TIPS, Featured, Travel
Before you hit the road, here are some basics everyone driver needs to know for car safety and to save money. Avoid expensive repairs that you don’t want or have to make—you’ve got a tan to catch! In light of the recent Tesla Model S crash and automatic...
by Marybeth Bond | Dec 16, 2015 | NORTH AMERICA, Adventure, Canada, Featured
“Polar bears move as if the country has belonged to them always.” John Muir, on a visit to the Arctic in 1899 Less than an hour after we landed in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada at the remote lodge on Hudson Bay, we saw our first polar bear. In fact, it was...
by Marybeth Bond | Jan 6, 2015 | Carmel & Monterey, California, Featured, Travel
A shared obsession with with the ocean was the unlikely impetus for a family trip to Monterey Bay Aquarium. Our children are now adults, are 23 and 26 years old – and they are still obsessed with the aquarium. In fact, we all are...
by Marybeth Bond | Aug 17, 2014 | Featured
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, Check Point Charlie was the gateway for intrepid tourists to cross into East Berlin to witness life under the iron fist of communism. The greatest adventure I could imagine, when I was a student in Europe, was to...