After a fantastic weekend with family in Lima, we took a Monday morning flight to Juliaca and then took an hour-long taxi ride to Puno. Puno sits in the mountains at nearly 13,000 feet, so we...

Our next adventure in Peru was a ten hour train ride north from Puno to Cusco. We had really been looking forward to this day because we had heard so many great things about this train ride from...

Once we arrived in Cusco, we checked into our hotel and quickly made arrangements for the next day to get to Ollantaytambo, the town where our train to Machu Picchu would depart from. The same...

Our first stop on our grand European adventure was a one-week stay in London with my family. The main motivation for this family trip was to see my brother Ben march in the London New Year’s...

After leaving London for the second stop on our big adventure, we took the train to Bristol which was our home base for the next three nights. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Bristol City...

For our day trip to Oxford, we traveled in by train from Bristol just as we did for our day trip to Bath the day before. The train journey to Oxford was much longer than to Bath (about an hour and...

After staying in Bristol and taking day trips to Bath and Oxford, we headed back to London to catch a train to Watford, a small town that many probably haven’t heard of before. Why did we...

For our next stop on our big adventure, we needed to choose a city to split up the journey between Watford (where we stayed to do the Harry Potter tour at Warner Bros. Studios) and England’s...

England’s Lake District is dreamy. It is like nothing I ever expected. Even in winter when it is supposed to be the least scenic, my jaw was dropping as our tour van wound through the...

Edinburgh was one of the cities I was most looking forward to visiting during our big European adventure. Before visiting, I dreamed of regal castles full of history, charming buildings...