Blog posts from Daily life
August 2019 (in a few seconds per day)

August 2019 (in a few seconds per day)

I had decided recently that I wanted to take more photos of my daily life. We always take a ton to document our travels but days go by without a single picture when we are relaxing / working at...

20 years later…

20 years later…

Eric and I are celebrating twenty years as a couple today. In 7,305 days we have visited 40+ countries, bought a house, started a business, raised two dogs, and most importantly, fallen in love...

Riesling, lost & found

Riesling, lost & found

Back in early September (during our trip to Canada) our house-sitter let Riesling out into the backyard unattended and she wandered off. She was missing for three nights and even writing this now I...

Homemade Energy Bites

Homemade Energy Bites

Ever since discovering Tom & Luke's cranberry and cashew snackaballs in New Zealand last year, I have been wanting to try a homemade version. After picking up a tub of pitted dates at the Indian...

Memory Monday: a year in the garden

Memory Monday: a year in the garden

In May, just before we left for Bali, I built a wire trellis to support several climbing plants including moonflower, cardinal climber and passionflower. Starting in early June I took a series of...

Carpet Cleaning 101

Carpet Cleaning 101

With two dogs and frequent guests, our living room carpet gets a lot of abuse. In the last few months in particular, a bunch of random dirt spots have showed up with no logical explanation and it...

A family of four…

A family of four…

If you follow either of us on social media, you may have noticed an extra dog has been showing up in our photos lately... So, say hello to Pasha - the newest member of our family! She is also a mini...

Three Weddings in August

Three Weddings in August

After not having been to a wedding in over two years we found ourselves with three in one month this August! Thankfully one was local and the other two involved family, so we got to visit with lots...

Memory Monday: Wayfarer’s Chapel

Memory Monday: Wayfarer’s Chapel

In August 2004, Eric and I had just moved to North Carolina. We had some time off before school started so we took a trip out to Los Angeles to visit my brother who had graduated from college and...

Happy 13th Birthday!

Happy 13th Birthday!

Our furry child turns 13 today. That's about 65 in dog years but you would never know by the way she approaches her daily two-mile walks. We've been through a lot of long car trips, hikes, stuffed...

Memory Monday: bulldogs in Athens

Memory Monday: bulldogs in Athens

Ten years ago this July, we did a little exploring in our then hometown of Athens, GA to see how many of the decorated bulldogs we could spot. We photographed 21 different bulldogs and on a sunny...

Memory Monday: making a shell pendant

Memory Monday: making a shell pendant

We did a bit of beach walking in Sengiggi on Lombok and Candidasa on Bali and one of my favorite finds were these jewel-like purple shells. My goal was to find at least one intact that I could turn...

Brewgaloo 2014

Brewgaloo 2014

The last weekend of April was busy for us, first on Friday with the Art of Cool jazz festival that we helped fund through Kickstarter, then on Saturday with this year's Brewgaloo NC beer and local...

2013 retrospective

2013 retrospective

Leandra recently completed our annual  year-in-photos recap with a 4 minute video overview highlighting our adventures from 2013. videos from previous years- 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 Some of our...

Summer concerts

Summer concerts

One week, two shows in two cities - that's how we celebrate Leandra's birthday! Aug 12 - The Killers, Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh Outdoor concerts can be an iffy proposition in the south with...

Riesling’s 12th.

Riesling’s 12th.

She started out with a 5 mile walk this morning and ended the day with a monster beef bone from the butcher. Not a bad way to spend a birthday... happy 12th little one!  

Budapest 2013: food

Budapest 2013: food

Belgian Brasserie Henri -- We walked quite a lot on our first day in Hungary and found ourselves on the Buda side near dinner-time, so we choose this Belgian pub as a place to grab a beer and and...

Our Itinerary

2024 Trips

San Diego, CA (Jan)
Sarasota, FL (Feb)
Valencia, Spain (Mar)
Mallorca (Apr)
Croatia (May)
Faroe Islands (Aug)
London, UK (Sept)
Bari, Italy (Sept)
Rome, Italy (Oct)
Frankfurt, Germany (Oct)

2022 Trips

Florida (Feb)
NC Mountains (Apr)
Washington DC (Apr)
Valencia, Spain (May)
Hilton Head, SC (May)
Pacific NW (Jun)
Long Island (Jul)
Florida (Sept)
Chicago (Sept)
Poland (Sept)
NC Mountains (Nov)
Euro Xmas Markets (Dec)