I’ve always been extremely interested in my family history. It’s hard to keep up with sometimes because, like your typical American, they come from soooo may different places. One family line that has always kept their history alive is the Champion, or Campeoni family. The Champions came from Rovinj, Croatia, which was known as…

We’re finally back from our European road trip. We visited three countries, stayed in five hotel rooms, and drove about 1,700 miles. Needless to say, we’re exhausted. We had so much fun on our journey and I can’t wait to share all of the pictures. But first, I wanted to talk about the actual driving…

On our way back to Dar, Evita and I spent another night in Dubai. While we were there, we went up the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. Unfortunately, I didn’t take many pictures of it. We had just finished a 15-hour flight, which followed another 1-hour flight and a hectic airline transfer…

Sorry if this post is a little jumbled and full of grammatical errors… I’m still super jet lagged.Before my trip, I spent a lot of time researching the Dubai stopovers set up by Emirates Airlines, but could hardly find any information. All I knew is that Emirates sets up passengers with layovers over 7 hours (I…

I decided to take my own advice and take pictures of some of the signs and billboards here. They’re all quite interesting to me, especially after living in a place where billboards are illegal for so long (Hawaii). There are probably better ones I could snap pictures of, but I alway seem to miss them.…