The Terrific3 travel blog

Well, my good sleep streak was broken last night by a just Ok night of sleep, probably because we ate way too late (7pm) and went to bed with a full belly. That’s never good for my body, I’ve found! Woke up today, it was pouring, and I had a run on my schedule. So…

We all slept amazing last night and were refreshed and ready to go this morning. I slept over 9.5 hours but honestly could’ve slept longer. I’m getting the best and deepest sleep of my life here. Not waking up a million times like I usually do. No work stress or life stress or what are…

We left Rome this morning. I managed a morning run! We took the subway to the train station and so we all got to navigate how to buy tickets etc. And look at these studs carrying their own luggage down dozens of stairs at the subway. I’m so glad we only packed carry ons! We…

When this is your morning run view, you know you’ve been blessed to start the day off right. Though actually, the day started at 1am when I woke up to find both boys awake and roaming around the apartment. This is why I got us a 3 bedroom to start—so one person’s jet lag wouldn’t…

We went to bed at 8ish last night. I was up several times hearing some noises in other apartments. Next thing I knew it was 837am and Z and I woke up at the same time feeling decent for a first day. We had our colosseum tour at 10am so I didn’t have time for…

This will be brief (maybe?). We’ve traveled about 24 hours, slept less than an hour, and are now in Rome, having dinner in a restaurant by the Colosseum while others are having breakfast in Portland. The world is a strange place sometimes, huh? By the way, the food was delicious! We flew to Iceland then…

We are at the beautiful new renovated PDX airport, still shocked and heartbroken over the direction our country is taking, on our way to Italy. We are flying to Rome via Iceland and then will hit Florence and Venice. This is a bucket list trip for us, especially S, who is enamored by Venice and…

This year, we spent 11 weeks out of the 52, approximately 21% of our year abroad. For me, it’s been a dream come true. I’ve always been an avid traveler. Becoming single mom to 2 littles shut down any big international travel for a while and then once we got our global entry passes and…

The last day in Mumbai, I had initially scheduled nothing, then last week decided to schedule a slum tour (the slum from slumdog millionaire). I was excited to do this but as soon as we arrived in Mumbai, the kids started begging for more down time and I didn’t want to rush things on our…

It was so comfortable sleeping in our lovely hotel. I slept pretty well! Just in time to leave here in a couple days and face jet lag again. Z said he was up at 330am for a bit. Poor kid—jet lag seems to go on for him for weeks. Z and I headed to the…