After a quick stop in Salzburg, the rest of our family left to go back home, leaving just Blair, Lauren, and I for another week before Blair too was set to head back home. As they flew west across the Atlantic, the three of us hopped on a train going the opposite direction toward Romania….

The next morning we packed up and took a train east from Vienna toward Salzburg. From there we voyaged south from Salzburg past the southeastern tip of Germany toward St. Viet im Pongau, flanked on both sides by the snow-capped Austrian alps. Our destination, the family home of the next addition to the family, Justin’s…

A two and a half hour train ride from Budapest brought us across the Austro-Hungarian border to the capital and the largest city of Austria, Vienna. For several hundreds of years, Vienna has been home to Austrian Royalty as the home of the royal house of Habsburg which served as the Imperial seat of the Holy…

Lauren and I both agreed after our grand adventure last year that Budapest, Hungary was one of our favorite cities we visited and we could not wait to visit again and show our families the amazing city. What made our trip to Budapest so special is the authentic and gritty feel to the city which…

Our family arrived in London the next morning, just as tired and worn out as we were the day we had arrived overseas. Despite this, they were all very much excited to do some sightseeing and even managed to make it to a historical pub crawl later! It’s crazy what a little bit of excitement…

Those who followed our journey to Europe the first time around may find the first destination of our trip familiar. If not, I can almost guarantee you have never heard of South Shields. The small blue-collar town, which grew exponentially due to coal-mining and shipbuilding during Victorian times, lies in the north east of England…

Cave Creek and Frontier Town
Apache Trail
Little Miss Barbecue
In-N-Out Burger
Novembeer
Dobbins Lookout

One weekend each year we head up north to Alliance, Ohio to my former college roommate’s parents’ farm to hang out and relax for a few days. It is a really good way for all of our University of Dayton friends to stay in touch and hang out with Hobbs’s local friends who have become…

My weekend experience in Chicago for Warped Tour, the largest traveling and longest-running music festival in the United States.

It has now been a whole week since we got back from our adventure and we are starting to settle back into the lives we left. I felt the need to make a final post looking back at our European travels before we start whatever new adventure our lives have in store for us. Throughout…