It Began With A Whale

Things You Don’t Plan For When Considering A Long-Distance Marriage: Pandemic

Mark and I celebrated the five-year anniversary of meeting each other for the first time remotely. Why? Oh, you know. COVID-19.

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Fireflies

I could write a huuuuuuge article, or seven, or twenty seven, about all of the things experienced, both by the new tourists and my kids (and their friends, who came with us as well, because why not six kids when there’s already four). There’s really no need for it when there’s a story that will stand out in my head forever. And I think it’s the best one.

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The Long Autumn of 2018

I’m writing this on August 22nd, and so I know we’re still dragging along in summer, BUT the kids are back to school, the weather is ALMOST cooling down here in Virginia, and all of the travel (for the foreseeable future) is done.

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Scotland With Teens: Planning With My 13-Year-Old Son

Listen, I know paintball isn’t so totally touristy and all things Alba, but Delta Force East Glasgow Paintball, 15 miles outside of downtown Glasgow, is amazing.

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"The Story of One Long-Distance Marriage Currently In Progress"

The Story

Simply? Mark and I met because we had mutual friends. That’s the easy answer. That’s the answer half the world uses: We had mutual friends. But this situation isn’t really that, because it involved way too many moving pieces, timelines, common interests, and people. It is, in its own way, a perfectly ridiculous adventure.

Long-Distance Marriage

He’s there. I’m here. And between us is an ocean and five hours. It’s by choice because right now — it’s what our individual families need.

So how do you build a marriage when you spend about two months of your year together? We’re not sure, but we’re figuring it out as we go along.

Travel Tips

We travel a lot. We have to. But no, we don’t have a “ton” of frequent flier miles.

Should we? Probably. But to do that, we have to use different credit cards (nope) and stick to one or two airlines, and they’re hardly every the cheapest options. And we are bargain hunters. We have to be.

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Mark and I celebrated the five-year anniversary of meeting each other for the first time remotely. Why? Oh, you know. COVID-19.

I could write a huuuuuuge article, or seven, or twenty seven, about all of the things experienced, both by the new tourists and my kids (and their friends, who came with us as well, because why not six kids when there’s already four). There’s really no need for it when there’s a story that will stand out in my head forever. And I think it’s the best one.

I’m writing this on August 22nd, and so I know we’re still dragging along in summer, BUT the kids are back to school, the weather is ALMOST cooling down here in Virginia, and all of the travel (for the foreseeable future) is done.

Listen, I know paintball isn’t so totally touristy and all things Alba, but Delta Force East Glasgow Paintball, 15 miles outside of downtown Glasgow, is amazing.