Travel

Summer vacation

Your summer vacation packing essentials

We all strive to go on vacation and pack less, myself included. There’s nothing worse than getting home from a trip and opening your suitcase to discover you only wore half of the items you brought. As we’re all fitting in our final trips of the summer (and I’m packing for a big trip), I decided we needed to do a summer vacation packing post! Keep reading to see our formula for packing light. Now, let’s see if I can follow my own advice; only time will tell!

Lani on Lewes Beach

Lani’s Family Vacation to Lewes, Delaware

We traveled to Lewes, Delaware for our annual summer family vacation this year.

Drakes Island Beach Real Life Style

A Maine COVIDcation

Although we had not spent a night outside of our home since February, or even eaten outside at a restaurant, we felt that the mental health benefits to our family would be worth the risks of the trip. Maine has consistently had one of the lowest rates of COVID-19 transmission and strict travel restrictions. We were not disappointed.

Vintage Asheville

Known for being a kind of liberal, hippie enclave with a great culinary scene in the middle of more conservative North Carolina, it did not disappoint.

A Day Spent at Hudson Yards

I am going to lead with the conclusion here. To be clear, RLS loved Hudson Yards and we think you should all go yourselves if you are able.  The mall covers a wide range of price points, from H&M to Dior, but most importantly, there are some new discoveries you might not have had a … Read more

California Dreamin’ with Kids

Remember the blog post on our family trip to NYC last summer? Mr. Real Life Style made a funny comment at the conclusion of our recent California trip, which was that this one was for the kids, whereas the NYC trip was really for the adults, and we dragged the kids along (see epicly cute … Read more

9 Tips for Doing New York City with Kids

I have to tell you, I was very worried about our trip to New York with the kids. You’d have thought living there myself for over 15 years would have relaxed me. On the contrary, I knew exactly how much we would be walking, how crowded the subway could get, and how overstimulated my DC-born-and-bred … Read more

Lani’s Travel Capsule Wardrobe Formula

Our readers who subscribe, and therefore get our weekly newsletter detailing our comings and goings, will know that I have been doing A LOT of traveling for clients lately. After using the same strategy for 4 trips in one month, I thought I should be nice and share my new travel capsule wardrobe formula. (Aside: … Read more

Kyle Takes San Francisco

San Francisco, how you’ve captured my heart. The city has an infinite amount of things to do and see, and I had less than five days over this past Presidents’ Day weekend. My sister flew Jack (my boyfriend) and me out to San Francisco to see the city before she moves back to Northern Virginia … Read more