A Thermostat Housing Assembly Endeavor

As many of you know, we are in Ebony (our trusted SUV) a lot. Even when we are at our temporary home base, we venture out and drive all over the place. Saturday I drove, with the boys, an hour and a half south to a small town. Along the way,… Continue reading

New Experience and Character

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. – Henry David Thoreau Continue reading

The Whole Object of Travel

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – G.K. Chesterton Continue reading

Hollywood Studios

The Nomad Family has visited two different Disney parks this month. The first one being Hollywood Studios. There are thousands of articles, posts and advertisements for Disney and Hollywood Studios. So, my objective is to relay our experience there, mainly through imagery and hopefully impart at least one thing that other… Continue reading

He Who Is Outside His Door

He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him. – Dutch Proverb Continue reading

Find The Beautiful

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading

Treasure Island

Have you ever been to Treasure Island? No I am not talking about the Long John Silver tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. And I am not referring to the casino and hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. This Treasure Island is located in Pinellas County, Florida. I had never heard of it.… Continue reading

Universal Halloween Horror Nights 2014

Warning: Some images and the enclosed video may frighten children…and some adults. Universal Studios began Halloween Horror Nights in 1991 in Florida. From then, they expanded to California with it in 1997, Singapore in 2011 and Japan in 2012. The two older boys (Noah and Ethan) and I went to the… Continue reading

The Voyage Never Ends

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. – Pat Conroy Continue reading

Go Beyond Textbooks

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. – John Hope Franklin Continue reading