When my family travels, we like to stay in houses instead of hotels, especially when we are going to be in a location for more than a day...

If you follow Straddling the Gap or my personal account on Facebook, you know we recently went on a 19 day vacation all over the West.  In a...

Me.  My husband.  My kids.  In a RV.  For 20 days.  Traveling the West.  It's the Great American Road Trip and we'd love if you join...

We were in the Verde Valley area of Arizona during Labor Day Weekend.  The Verde Valley is in Central Arizona, south of Sedona and about 90 ...

Anybody who reads this blog knows I live in Arizona.  I love living here.  I'm not a "native" in that I was born here, but any...

There's lots to say about this weekend, but let's just make at least some of it easy: Hope your holiday weekend was great...

Last week I attended a legal conference on water law.  The conference was fairly mundane, my third consecutive year of attending this confer...

You know I love flowers.  I take pictures of them wherever I go.  The flowers in Kauai are gorgeous.  Hibiscus are plentiful and in every co...

I love my husband.  Really.  He is one of the few persons who enjoys vacations more than I do.  On our honeymoon we came to Hawaii for the f...

There are some places that you know immediately by sound and smell even if you can't see them.  They instantaneously create feelings and...

Some of you may have read that we traveled to California last week for a choral festival in San Juan Capistrano.  While the kids were in reh...