Are You Daydreaming About Summer Trips?

I go to Martha’s Vineyard for a week every summer with my family. I’m also hoping to meet up with my best friend in Nashville for a girls weekend!

This looks heavenly! For anyone looking for an East Coast option, FireLight Camps in Ithaca, NY looks lovely. I highly recommend that area if you’re into hiking, lakes, farm markets, and touring old architecture at Cornell (the A. D. White library is exquisite!).

Joanna!
I live in Winnipeg, Canada where it is regularly -20 celsius (-4 in American!) or colder! When you are active and outside it is actually glorious (I know, hard sell!) Having the right layers and wind protection are essential starting points.
Cross country skiing then warming up by the fire with red wine and cheese! My city has 10K of skating trails throughout the downtown — I have a skate commute every day!
I even host a ‘winter run club’ for mental health. It is so so so important to still go outside get fresh air, see the world and be around people. Otherwise, it’s definitely a bluesy season. I say, if you can’t beat em – join em! Outside always feels so good.
That said, it’s also really fun to plan vacations! (I also did a mini room makeover yesterday and freshened up my home with bright colours!)
XO
Lindsay

NYC in two weeks :)
packing my lovely parka and reliable walking shoes.

This looks super, my sons would love it!
We are looking forward to our soon coming skiing week in the Italian Alps. And to summer holiday in Spain, Costa de la Luz. It’s so beautiful there!
Oohh, not to forget the girls trip to Dresden, tickets for a ballet in Semperoper already booked:)

I’m doing a trip to Europe this year! Trying to keep it around 2 weeks, and debating between:

London > Paris > Swiss Alps > Milan
OR
London > Amsterdam > Paris > Swiss Alps

oh no, you found it! I have been eyeing up this sweet place for a year or so! isn’t it the cutest thing you’ve seen? but now the cup of jo golden touch has been applied and we may never get a tent. joking. (but kind of serious :) )

Yes, this! Exactly how I spent my weekend and the perfect pick-me-up at the end of a long January. Would always be happy to read more of your holiday posts (both real and imagined!)…

I combined my holiday daydreaming with a seriously cosy fruit crumble this weekend (here, https://themumandthemom.com/2018/02/03/the-definitive-fruit-crumble-how-to-improve-a-grey-february/ )
…comforting food and holiday dreams made for the perfect combo :)

We’ve had a bad winter in the U.K. (not snow bomb bad, but bad enough) and I am SO OVER winter. Having constantly ill babies, having to put 20 layers of clothing to go anywhere and then getting overheated as soon as you step inside, dry skin from cold air and indoor heating, chapped lips – I’m over all of it. But … in 3 days time we are flying out to Cape Town. I cannot WAIT. Even though it’s a long haul overnight flight with a toddler and baby, I’m willing to do it to get away from winter

Hi Joanna! Have you ever visited Portugal? I’m sure you would love it! Maybe a ‘little’ detour on your trip to England?

Oh man, Mendocino is utterly magical! That was our first stop on our California road trip honeymoon back in 2005. We stayed at the Brewery Gulch Inn (which appears to have become a little more glamorous over the years than when we stayed there) and I have the fondest memories of the air, the misty cliffside scenery, the charming town and the peace and quiet.

Wherever you stay, if you do end up visiting, you won’t be sorry. It’s a special place.

My husband teases me because I plan trips all. the. time. For myself, for us, for family, for friends – trip planning is better than board games or surfing the web. When I want to shut off the world, I deep dive into travel blogs and airplane deals. We have an upcoming 14-day trip to Switzerland and I don’t know how the actual trip will hold up to the joy of planning, honestly.

Daydreaming is just about all I’m doing this year. I’m due with my first child on July 16, and all dreams of a languorous Italian vacation were replaced by dreams of newborn snuggles. I can’t complain, but I can still fantasize.

I read somewhere that you go on three trips: planning the trip, being on the actual trip and then recalling the trip. The planning part–savoring the possibilities—is so important for me!

We’ve had a habit of planning a sunny extended weekend somewhere warm in January or February each year and it’s the thing that gets me through the cold weather. Hello Guanica, PR in 12 days!!

I just booked a trip there for a little escape in June…THANKS, Joanna!

My favorite topic! We usually take a big trip each summer. Joanna, we were in Europe last summer when you were: Lake Como, Rome, but also some other places, gone 19 days. My husband plans these trips, every detail. But this year, for a variety of reasons, we are doing a staycation. I have challenged myself to really still take at least 2 weeks off work and make sure it is actually a vacation for me (we live in Highland Park, just outside of Chicago). So this time I am doing the planning and I LOVE the distraction. We are also going to Curacao for Spring Break – can’t wait for sunshine!

I have a trip planned to Hawaii in October, but nothing until then. Of course, we’re not exactly having winter on the west coast. I was in San Diego last week and it was nearly 90 degrees every day and it’s been nearly 70 in Reno, Nevada, where I currently live.

Last summer we took our boys (5 &9) on a cross-country trip. It was amazing to see friends and visit national parks (along with a few not so amazing long driving days that really can’t be avoided on a trip like this)
But one of my favorite things was glamping at under canvas at Yellow Stone and Arches national park – I loved Arches because it just felt like nowhere I’d ever been because the landscape is just so different from the east coast forest that we are used to. Under canvas had all the amazing outdoor feeling of camping (star gazing, smores, just exploring outside with the boys), but had the amenities I was not willing to sacrifice on a vacation (a real bed, coffee in the main tent in the am). We are considering another shorter east coast road trip this summer and are hoping they open the smokey mountains under canvas in time! https://www.undercanvas.com/