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La Fortuna 2023 – Day 4
Today in La Fortuna we decided to take a drive to Lake Arenal and stop at Mistico Hanging Bridges. You can go to the restaurant and get coffee without paying the entrance fee to the hanging bridges park. Frozen coffee was good and the traditional Tico breakfast was delicious as always; however, Hope tried a
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La Fortuna 2023 – Day 3
Kristen and I had such a great time at Bogarin Trail that we decided to go back a second day without the kids. On Friday morning we went as soon as they opened to see if we could see anymore wildlife. We had a great time exploring the trails again and did see a close-up
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La Fortuna 2023 – Day 2
I started the day with a 5 mile run from Relax Termalitas into La Fortuna, ran around the local school and downtown area and then headed back to our place. From just outside La Fortuna and all around the downtown area there were paths and sidewalks on the side of the road; however, for about
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La Fortuna 2023 – Day 1
I feel like our first international trip with the kids actually started well before our departure date. We had to get documents and pictures together to get passports for the kids and with COVID still lingering we had heard that wait times could take up to 6 months. Luckily we didn’t have any issue and
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Cancun, Mexico January 2024 – Adults only trip!!!
Our last trip away without the kids was about 6 years ago, before Autumn was born, for a weekend getaway to the Poconos. So Kristen and I had mixed emotions when we got a wedding invite to Cancun for January 2024 that was adults only. While it was exciting to think of a little time
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Camper and Tow Vehicle Issues
As promised, the trip home from Bar Harbor was definitely eventful. We started packing up from Bar Harbor Campground and a friendly couple stopped by our site to “reserve” it, we still had a few days left on our Acadia Park vehicle pass so we passed this off to them as well. Once we got
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Cape Hatteras, Outer Banks North Carolina
We have historically stayed further north in the Outer Banks (Corolla) although we have ventured to Waves and Buxton for some camping trips. August 2023 was our first year staying for a full week in a rental house and we were as far south as you could go. We stayed in a 5 bedroom house
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About Us!
At the time of this writing, my wife (Kristen) and I are in our early 40’s and our kids are Hope (11) and Autumn (5). I work in the Finance industry and have been at the same company for almost 20 years! Kristen is predominantly a stay at home mom but also continues to run