Author: Anita Santamaria

As you may already know, I recently visited Shipshewana, IN and stayed in this amazing hotel called the Blue Gate Garden Inn. Shipshewana is a small town in northern Indiana. This rural town is incredible to visit. To learn more about it, click here! If you’ve read any of my past posts, you know that…

Tucked into Northern Indiana, near the Michigan border, is a tiny town of less than 900 people. Shipshewana, named after a Potawatomi chief, is a small town, full of character! The people of this town have melded with the Amish families living in the same area, bringing different cultures and beliefs together. The Midwest has…

When you work full time and don’t have lots of time off, you take advantage of free weekends whenever you can!! I had a weekend where I didn’t have the kids and I had no other responsibilities. And to top it off, it was a gorgeous weekend! The temperatures are finally going up and the…

What do you do when you have a long holiday weekend? Go camping in your new camper of course!! I had my youngest for the weekend so planned a camping trip for 4th of July weekend. Decided that Daniel Boone National Forest sounded like a fun time! The plan was to leave Friday after work…

As many of you know, I took a hiatus from writing, however, I found this article still in my drafts. It was originally written in April of 2022, so you’ll notice that there are still references to the pandemic. Since I’ve not been back since that time, I’m leaving the information as is, because there…

Hey all! It’s been awhile and a lot has changed in my life, but I’m back!! First off, I want to thank everyone who has continued following along while I’ve been on my hiatus. I greatly appreciate the support that I’ve been given during this time of my life and I sincerely appreciate every one…

It’s Spring Break and Kayleigh and I have decided to take a road trip to Utah to visit the 5 National Parks there! We left on Friday afternoon. I got off work early so we left not long after the kids got home from school. I hadn’t planned on us leaving so early, so I…

On Sunday afternoon, we arrived at our hotel in Moab, UT. The last time we tried to see Arches National Park, we stayed at Aarchway Inn and Kayleigh really liked it and wanted to stay again. We found our booking on Booking.com. Again, the important things to us are 2 beds, non-smoking and preferably a…

We’ve now made our way through 5 states and have stopped for the night in Limon, Colorado at a La Quinta. Once again, I booked our room through Booking.com. I wanted a non-smoking room with 2 beds and preferably a breakfast. Just walking into this hotel was a hell of a lot better than the…

We made our way past Indianapolis and decided it was time to stop for the night. It was still early but Kayleigh was already done with being in the car. We tried stopping a half hour earlier but were told that everything was booked up because of a llama show. That’s right, I said LLAMA!…