About
Creekmoreworld.com is a travel blog for exotic family adventures. We are David, age 40; Trisha, age 45; Lily, age 7 and Emma, age 9. Washington D.C. is our home, although Trisha is from the Bay Area and David is from New York.
The adults are avid scuba divers, skiers, video game players and fans of heavy metal. In her youth, Trisha went on long backpacking journeys to Thailand, Central America, Europe and Turkey. David spent many months traveling Russia and the Soviet republics, from the Black Sea to Lake Baikal.
In 2003, Trish was diagnosed with a dangerous breast cancer. The real possibility of death made us rethink our lives, and together we committed to travel more if Trish survived. Our girls were still babies then. In her chemo haze, Trish would fantasize about taking a year off to travel the globe with them. It gave her the strength to continue the ghastly treatments.
Trish remains cancer free and the kids are now old enough to handle adventure travel. Our goal is still to spend a year abroad. But rather than take a whole year off, we are doing a series of month-long trips. The kids love their school and we enjoy our careers, which permit us to travel quite a bit. We are fortunate in that way. By the end of 2010, we should be a third of the way to our ‘year-abroad’ goal.
Most of our blogs are ‘live’ — we post daily while on the road. Our primary purpose is to record our travel for kids, friends and family. If we can help or encourage other families to travel more adventurously, it would be a bonus. For us, there is no purer expression of life than traveling as a family.
David currently works at an international non-profit in management and Trisha is a journalist and Web producer, working most recently at Discovery Channel and PBS. A long time ago, she wrote guidebooks to Belize and Norway. They’re probably incredibly out-of-date by now, so don’t buy them.
Hey Trish! (and David and kiddos!) I found your site because of a link Jennifer Viegas put on her FB site – how cool! Love the family pic. I didn’t know you were from the Bay Area. Are you a 49ers fan? :) I love traveling too!!!
I’m your biggest fan! You have a wonderful outlook on life and a joie de vivre that is contagious. Thanks for sharing your travels and your life.
Aw thanks! Nice of you to say.
We were public broadcasters for many years too.
David
DEAR Trish and David,
It is so great to see your website and learn about your travels. My family visited the cave in Yucatan when it was first opened up by National Geographic. I was twelve and my brother, David, was eight when we traveled to Yucatan and explored with our parents. The cave was just opened and we went there. Coming back from the grotto, all the lights suddenly went out. David was several yards ahead of the group and I felt my way through the dark to him. We sat down on the damp floor and waited.
Eventually a runner with a flashlight came down from the entrance and told us that some artifact had gone missing and they had turned out the light to (hopefully) catch the thief. But they never recovered anything or accused anyone. Strange and creepy! But a great memory to share.
I hope to be in Baltimore teaching a small class sometime in the spring—it’s very uncertain, but if I am coming, I’ll contact you.
Love and hugs from your cousin in Seattle,
Patty
Thank you Patty!
Definitely give us a call when you’re in Baltimore.
Hi Trisha & David,
I recently found your blog on TBEX and I thought you might be interested in UpTake’s new program called “Travel Gems” that features blog content from across the web on our site. It brings great blog content to a wider audience and helps bloggers like yourself increase traffic to their own blogs. I’d love to speak to you more about how this program works and see if you are interested in participating.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you!
Best,
Brittany
[...] Check out the family’s blog, It’s a creekmore world. [...]