Downtown Atlanta in the background… Just because we’re kind of crazy, we packed our bags and put the family that just grew up on a tour of the United States, taking advantage of some of Diego’s work commitments, knowing 4+ American cities. I’ll write a special post about traveling with children (especially so small), so I’m going straight to the cities. The first city on the list was Atlanta in the state of Georgia, about 3hours flight from here from Ottawa (only there is no direct flight from here…). We stayed 2 and a half days there and managed to get a good look at the city. Atlanta has about…

Oh California! This was our first time on the American West Coast (well, Diego had been there for a day…) and in the most populous state of the States… San Francisco was our destination this time and as Diego’s parents, Ari and Lourdes, would be visiting us here in Canada for that day, we arranged a family trip this time. The day after our arrival, Sunday, we were able to have the whole family together and that’s when we tried to gather the largest number of important outings (since the rest of the days we wouldn’t have Diego to accompany us due to a conference). Needless to say, the city…

As I said in the previous post about Texas, we set up a quick last minute visit to San Antonio, about 1h 20 minutes from Austin. We usually studied the cities we were going to visit, but as San Antonio was decided at the time, we were kind of in the dark about what we were going to visit and where we would walk. Arriving in downtown San Antonio, we informed ourselves of a boat ride through the River Walk Canal which was a super good surprise! Very friendly, you can both walk along the canal and make the guided boat trip! The River Walk is a canal one level…

Following our tours through Austin, we spent most of the day at Zilker Park (see previous post – Austin Part I here). We made a strategic stop for a beautiful view of downtown Austin at Rock Point inside the park. View of Zilker Park from Rock Point – this park is great! Lou Neff Point Lookout on the edge of Zilker Park Lou Neff Point – Downtown Austin and Colorado River Barton Springs – Public natural pool – too bad you couldn’t get in, the line was huge! Playground near Barton Springs pool Quick drive – by car – on Congress Avenue – One of the most famous streets in…

On another of our short, rather unpredictable trips, this time we ended up in Texas. It was kind of in celebration of Diego’s birthday, which would be in a few days and we took advantage of a promotion of tickets to get to know the American state that we had never visited before. Of course, if you were to see the distance, since Texas is in the extreme South American center, we would have spent a lot more days to explore the other major cities, like Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, but we only had 3 days to visit as much as possible.  After dropping off the dogs at their…