Growing up, my Dad was an Engineer and my Mom stayed home with my sister and I. We didn’t have a lot of discretionary money. What we did have, we used for vacations, which we tried to do one to two times a year. Thanks to my Dad’s job in Technical Sales (which required a lot of travel) we could afford to take nice vacations on his loyalty points for hotels and airlines. Mom and Dad also insisted on hotels with a free breakfast which my sister and I were required to stuff ourselves full on, and then we took food from the free breakfast for lunch. (We ate a lot of bagels and peanut butter for lunches on vacation.) We laugh about it now, but it’s the only way we could afford to travel when I was growing up.

During this time, I learned two things about travel:

1) I wanted to travel for my job, like my Dad did

2) I wanted to vacation as much as I could in my free time

But why? Why did I want to travel for both work and pleasure? And why should you?

I was in the same country, but there was almost nothing similar about these two locations.

I know we are making memories that will last forever.

And that’s why we should travel. However big or small. Expanding our world and our understanding of it brings so much joy to our lives. It causes us to pause and appreciate what we have back in our “normal” lives. It forces us to leave behind the day-to-day. To get creative. To see the world through a different lens.

I know these memories that stem from family vacations will last forever because I can still easily recall many of them from my childhood. Travel is not easy, especially with children. That’s why I’ve created this blog. So that I can share my knowledge of travel with all of you.

Because it’s so worth it.