Category: Travel

  • Harry Pottering in Orlando

    Harry Pottering in Orlando

    Here’s the second video (first one here) over-documenting our Orlando trip last week. This one covers Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure, which include the two parts of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

  • Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Buck With a Family of Six in Orlando

    Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Buck With a Family of Six in Orlando

    We just returned from a fun-filled vacation in Orlando, Florida, where we visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in both Universal Orlando parks, spent a day at Discovery Cove and a day in SeaWorld. My friend asked me for Orlando tips, so I’m sharing them here in case other people are thinking about an Orlando…

  • Discovery Cove

    Discovery Cove

    Here’s the first of a few videos documenting our family trip last week – Note: They have dispensers of “animal safe” sunscreen all over and we really lathered it on before realizing your skin doesn’t absorb it like the animal unsafe kind. We’re not actually that pale.

  • A day and a half in Geneva

    A day and a half in Geneva

    Last week I had about a day and a half of free time around a business meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The city offers free bikes (for 4 hours — 2 francs an hour after that) so I borrowed one and rode over the French border to a cable car that took me up Mont Salève,…

  • Looking for Bacon Guy at Bear Lake

    Looking for Bacon Guy at Bear Lake

    Last week we spent a couple of nights in the Old Ephraim cabin at Rendezvous Beach State Park in Laketown, Utah. The stall in the shared camp bathroom had a broken lock so you had to cough as each person entered to announce your presence. An 8-year-old kid ignored my cough and was singing to…