What do you do in Maine just before the 4th of July?  Go strawberry picking.  After having been in California, I get that this may not seem as exciting to our west coast brothers and sisters.  Out there fruit seems...

The #1 question we get asked by almost everyone: how did you do it?!  How did we decide to take a year (maybe more), save, plan and finally.... pull the trigger? (Question #2 is how do we afford it?) Let's...

We're an ocean family.  Mom wanted to dip her toes in the Pacific so we decided to take a day trip to Santa Cruz. We didn't know much about the place.  We headed off in that direction on a recommendation...