About Us

We're the Jeffers (Jr. to those who know Nathan's parents).  We were high school sweethearts who got married after almost seven years of dating.  We live in Southern California, so we've been raised with a need for constant entertainment. When Nathan graduated from high school, he was given a book by Dr. Seuss called "Oh, the Places You'll Go" from one of our youth leaders, Toni.  She would always tell us how we had to enjoy life before we got married and had all the responsibilities of caring for ourselves and a family.    She encouraged us to take opportunities when life offered them.  We took that challenge seriously and still try to as much as we can with our limited time and budget.

Besides traveling through huge milestones of life together, we've traveled to places like Hawaii, Pittsburgh, and Baja California.  Although we both love to travel, I (Michelle) have been the furthest.  I went to Malawi, Africa (near South Africa), stopping off in London and Johannesburg with Nathan's sister and a group of people on a missions trip.  I've been to Niagara Falls (the Canada side), Alaska, and was even in New Orleans a month before Hurricane Katrina hit.  Nathan has been to Oregon and Washington several times to visit family, along with Tennessee and Georgia.  We both went to Florida (Disney World) as kids.

I have a serious travel bug (that Nathan has caught over time) that makes me bored with life if I don't do something different about once every three months.  We made a promise to each other before we got married that we'd make every attempt to still travel, even if it was just somewhere small.  So far, we've kept our promise very well. 

We decided that for big trips, we'd start with places that one of us had already been but the other hadn't.  This way we'd know a little bit about what to expect and already have some ideas of what we wanted to do (I don't know, for some reason it seemed more do-able that way).  For our honeymoon, we went to Key Largo because Nathan had been there and I hadn't.  (You can read more about that in our Key Largo blog post).  Since then, we've done mostly smaller trips (besides a weekend trip to Northern California for a friend's wedding).

This blog is intended to share our experiences with anyone who's interested in traveling and may be in a similar situation.  Most of the things we do are not very expensive.  Sometimes we splurge, though.  The most we've ever spent on a meal was $100 for the both of us, and that was on the day Nathan proposed.  Usually when we go out for our birthday or anniversary, our splurging is somewhere around the $30-$40 range, so you can gauge whether or not you feel like this blog will be applicable.  We've been much tighter on money since we've been married, though, and have found some very cheap ways to have fun.  Hopefully you can get something useful out of this.  If nothing else, this blog will help us remember that our lives aren't as boring as I sometimes think.