We arrived in Pennsylvania with our overwhelming mountain of luggage, surprising not only you, my dear readers, with how much we brought along, but my sister as well. But we did manage to get both our luggage and ourselves packed into the Suburban. After a short overnight stay, we were on to the next leg of our journey. Her family of 6 and ourselves made 12 of us traveling 14 hours in a 15-passenger van. What do you think happens when you’re traveling with people (should I say they’re all in my family?) that have pretty ferocious coughs? You cause those around to cringe and cross themselves in the hope that…

The start of our European/Congolese adventure has begun even though we don’t cross the ocean for another week. I wonder where to start. When does Day 1 become Day 2? I am sitting in the Detroit airport as I write this wondering for the 50th time why anyone would book a red eye flight that allows a person no time to sleep? We spent the day packing, except for my dear husband who never even started until an hour before we were to leave. All would have been well except he was lacking some primary items. And they were in the dirty clothes.   Oops Much to his credit he…

The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas was not always called that. It actually began as a Spanish mission and was completed in 1744 with the name San Antonio de Valero Mission. But over the years, it was abandoned and later served as a fort for the army. It became an unforgettable piece of American history in 1836 when the battle of the Alamo took place. But first let me give you a little background as to how the Alamo became involved. Spain held the area of Texas until 1821 when Mexico declared its independence. Mexico then decided to try and colonize the area since it was so sparsely populated. Their…

A road-trip that covered 3,000 miles. You can pack a lot into one week and we proved it by doing just that. Now I need a vacation from my vacation! Seth is getting ready to head to Canada for the next several months as he starts his summer/fall/winter jobs there, just left this morning for Canada so we my hubby decided we really needed to do this family trip before he left. Since I’m just a passenger (no driving for me!) I went along for the ride. 🙂 First off, it was Carlsbad Caverns, a favorite of ours once we went to see it several years ago. This was our…