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Relaxing Road Trip To Sedona Arizona

Road Trip to Sedona The weather today is perfect as we set out on our road trip to Sedona from Flagstaff Arizona. The snow has started melting on the ground and so we have a chance to hit the road for Sedona. We pass through a lovely windy road on our way, and a spine forest can […]

Lowell Observatory At Flagstaff Arizona

Lowell Observatory Flagstaff Arizona We discover that places like Lowell Observatory are perfect for an alternative form of schooling – here’s why, because, today was a pretty bad day for me. I kind of hit rock bottom. It is past the three-month mark and just went flat. I had all my washing done by hand and […]

Grand Canyon And Arizona Snow

Grand Canyon And Arizona Snow ©Exploramum and Explorason – gorgeous glass church sits in a bed of Arizona snow We have just had two days of Arizona snow and cold weather. We had made a quick trip to stores and did the rounds on a couple of other stores to find warm clothes for this […]

Route 66 Road Trip Laughlin to Flagstaff

Route 66 Road Trip Laughlin to Flagstaff Route 66 is one of the most famous roads in the USA and our Route 66 road trip takes us from Laughlin to Flagstaff near the Grand Canyon.  “Have you won Lotto?”. This is a comment I have just received on Facebook. My answer is “no”, I have not […]

Joshua Tree to Laughlin via Route 66

Joshua Tree to Laughlin via Route 66 We picked this trip to Joshua Tree area after some good advice from luxury travel experts as we depart, so we sadly say goodbye to Palm Springs and are on the road for our single parent travel adventure. Our faithful GPS takes us the longest and most boring way […]

Gorgeous Palm Springs Plus An Overtired Single Mum

Gorgeous Palm Springs and an overtired single Mum We leave San Diego mid-afternoon for our next family travel journey and decide to drive to Palm Springs. We arrive and it is just starting to get dark. We have no idea Gay Pride Festival is on this weekend, so most reasonable hotels are booked out. Luxury […]

SeaWorld San Diego For Kids

SeaWorld San Diego For Kids We are having a great time on our new adventure – a road trip through California and into neighboring states.  I am glad we have a pass to access SeaWorld San Diego. This is part of a City Pass we purchased for Disneyland. This is nice since park entry is about […]

Legoland And Our Road Trip Through San Diego Begins

Legoland, San Diego We have just had the most delightful few days in Los Angeles and the family we stayed with has 2 Mums and 2 kids as it was a chance for us to share our lives as they shared their home before our road trip through San Diego began. For my son, it […]

California Adventure Park Is Awesome

California Adventure Park Luxury travel experts advise: Disney land is a very busy place. While on a family travel in California, we advise you get here as early as you can to beat the queues. By doing this, we figured out that our single parent travel would be more interesting, allowing us more time to […]

A Road Trip Around Viti Levu, Fiji

A road trip around Viti Levu, Fiji These are the last two days of our very memorable single parent travel journey in Fiji as we’ve just flown from Savusavu. We need a trip around Viti Levu (or Vitae Levu), Fiji. So as ‘explorers’, we decide we will hire a little car from Nadi and drive […]

Less Is More – So Poor Yet So Happy – A Fijian Village

Less is more – so poor, yet so happy The weekend has arrived on Savusavu island, and it is time to explore the unknown, so we hired a little 4WD vehicle where we learn a valuable lesson about how locals can be so poor yet so happy.  We hope to find a beach in a […]

Labasa Fiji – an Indian Town

Labasa Fiji – an Indian Town Yesterday we woke at 5:30 a.m. in preparation to walk to town, and get the early bus to Labasa (pronounced Lambassa).  We have been house sitting and are part way through, based in Savusavu. Our friends Marilyn and Dave who own a farm here were also on the bus […]