Way back in 2019, my youngest son and I were looking at going to the Porsche only swap meet in Hershey, PA. That year did not work out, then the pandemic hit. 2022 was a whole different story. Since 2019, I actually put a Porsche in my garage and joined the Porsche Club of America…
As a father of three sons, I hope to have as many memorable experiences with them as possible. Some experiences I’ll observe and I’ll take part in others. Some experiences the whole family will be a part of and others will be one on one. This is one of the experiences I’m fortunate to have…
It’s strange to think that we spent the majority of our lives four hours from each other (me in Pittsburgh, Tracy in Maryland), and yet we didn’t meet each other until we were thousands of miles from our homes. In May 1999, we were both spending our final day of traveling through Europe in the Cinque…
As our Amtrak train approached the Newark station I checked our flight status – delayed. While at the check in counter fifteen minutes later, we learned the delay was four hours. A drunken passenger on the inbound flight from Europe assaulted a flight attendant. The result was a diversion to Shannon, Ireland to have the…
I’m going to spare you all of the canceled flight, rainy weather and happy accident details of our trip to Iceland. Let’s face it, the internet is full of detailed stories about Iceland travel. Instead, I’m going to share things we learned, a few stories and some pictures. Overall, Iceland is a great vacation destination….
Like you, I had never heard of Holiday Valley Ski area either. When doing a search for solid eastern ski areas, Holiday Valley showed up a few times as one of the best. Going north from Maryland into the snow belt just off Lake Erie seemed like a no-brainer. With the kids being off on…
It would not be a ski season in the Becker house without a weekend trip to Hidden Valley Resort in PA. This year’s trip was from January 5th to the 7th. After grabbing the boys from school on Friday the 4th, we headed toward the frigid north in a warm car blasting the third audiobook…
I have been meaning to post on our trip to NYC and Boston but time just got away from me. The original impetus for this trip was some of our boys really wanted to see NYC and our oldest is a Red Sox fan who we promised a trip to Fenway. Although I have been…
No, not Disney. Perhaps I’m a bad parent, but I’ve never wanted to visit Disney World. The few times my wife has open the topic of taking our three boys I’ve been less than enthused. To be clear, my lack of enthusiasm has been driven by expense, the faux-ness of the experience and the fact…
Not only was spring break a full week this year, it is likely the last lengthy spring break for our kids. Maryland put down hard rules on school calendars going forward. With this in mind, my wife and I scoured VRBO for a place in the Shenandoah Valley for a little trip. We found what…