This morning I awoke to an eager mother ready to get her baby back. At least an hour before we needed to leave to pick her up, mom was...

After an exciting start to the vacation and many fun activities we were ready to take it easy for a day. We took the morning to sleep in...

Rolling out of bed this morning with my typical Costa Rican breakfast already delivered and ready was nothing short of amazing, aside...

Hace dos días, Joelle visitó Catarata Río Fortuna con sus compañeros de clase. Hoy buscamos el mismo destino, salvo vamos a pasar por...

"Ah! You are the Cheetahs!" Santos exclaims in the insightful tone that comes from finding the definitive clue to solve a mystery....

After connecting through Houston and narrowly missing the floods, we arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica at 12:30 am without complications....

Happy Birthday Mom!! We slept in a little and then packed up our bags in preparation of bringing everything over to the Keppler’s...

AYA SOFYA, BLUE MOSQUE, THE CISTERN, TOPKAPI PALACE Getting up nice and early we headed to the Keppler’s place to pick up Sierra and...

Last night Jo and I stayed at the Keppler’s apartment. Sierra and I woke up this morning to Joelle shaking us. Everyone except Joelle had...

The world’s oldest shopping mall is on the “must see” list of every visitor to Istanbul. A maze of old streets and alleys first plotted...

The sky is as dark as a cup of black coffee and the air is warm like a computer that has been used for several hours. A thumping and...

Today we got up at our leisure and had a nice breakfast in the apartment. We soon realized that we had to be at the movie theater in...

This morning dad woke up to go and watch people swim across the Bosphorus from Asia to Europe, an event that happens one a year. It is...

We woke up this morning to get ready to head to breakfast with the Kepplers and then it began to pour rain. There were rivers flowing...

The car rumbles up to the stop light, its hardly functioning brakes straining to obey the red light. As I am nodding off to sleep in the...

A sturdy building named Çiya. It looks the same as it did yesterday, today and tomorrow. Nothing changes. People pass by it without...

We saw so much today in the city that I am not sure I can even remember everything we did. We started our day off to some eggs that we...

Everywhere you look here there are stray cats and kittens just roaming around. They were around our hotel in Selçuk, downtown, in the...

We got a little extra sleep this morning, had a wonderful breakfast, packed our bags, and headed off to the airport. Arriving there very...

On our way back from dinner the other night we stopped at the Market to pickup a few things for the apartment. Little did we know how...