“Aren’t you afraid to go by yourself?” Before I went on my volunteer trip to Rabat, that was the question I heard most frequently. I left for Morocco in April 2016, a month after airport bombings in Brussels had left …
Author: Angela Ballard
Why We Travel: “Join the Navy, See the World”
In looking for our next home, it must be a place that inspires stories. These are some of the stories from our life’s adventures that have inspired us. They are why we travel. As you learned of my father in …
Australia Adventure: Mornington Peninsula Wine Country
Our Australian adventure took us all up and down the eastern coast of the country, beginning with beautiful Brisbane, heading to Cairns for our liveaboard dive excursion along the Great Barrier Reef, then to Sydney and Melbourne for some cosmopolitan dining, …
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Australia Adventure: Melbourne Walkabout
In Aboriginal culture, a walkabout historically referred to a boy's rite of passage into manhood. Today it refers to a nomadic lifestyle, and after walking all over Brisbane, Cairns, and Sydney, it felt pretty spot-on for the way we'd been seeing the sights of …
Australia Adventure: Sophisticated Sydney
After wrapping up our Great Barrier Reef dive adventure, we met my parents, brother, and sister-in-law for a few days in Sydney. Mike and I tend to prefer staying in Airbnbs where we can meet locals and get a feel …
Australia Adventure: Keep Cairns Weird
After a few wonderful days in Brisbane, we took a short flight north to Cairns, where we would spend a night before setting sail for a week on a liveaboard to dive the Great Barrier Reef.
Bushwackers, Blue Angels, and a Baptist Church Bar in Orange Beach
We were in Orange Beach, Alabama, recently for a destination wedding. It's a small, laid-back community that sits on the border of Alabama and Florida with Gulf Shores on one side and Perdido Beach on the other.
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United Kingdom Adventure: Missing the Boat
We had such a wonderful day seeing the sights on the Isle of Man as we drove from one end of country to the other that we almost didn't want to leave the next morning. And thanks to Manx Ferries, …
United Kingdom Adventure: Five Countries in Eight Days
More and more frequently these days, our travel adventures begin with an amazing deal on airfare. I came across an Air France promotion from Washington, D.C., to Dublin for just $314 USD per person round trip, and I couldn't pass …
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Website Wednesday: Travellerspoint
The more we travel (and the older we get), the more we want to chronicle all of the terrific little details that make each trip so special.