Family Road Trip & Travel Diaries

On the sixth and seventh days of our family road trip we traveled north from Sonoma to Crescent City, California in order to visit the Redwood National Forest. I had always assumed the Redwood National […] Read more

On the fourth and fifth days on our family road trip we traveled from Napa Valley to a wonderful, 400-acre wildlife preserve in Sonoma’s Wine Country called Safari West.  Dubbed the “Sonoma Serengeti”, Safari West […] Read more

  10 This video was shot at the Mystery of the Trees park inside their famous sky trail.  It captures a prank I played on my teenage son for being so annoying.  I really enjoyed […] Read more

This is the fourth consecutive summer I’ve done a family road trip since launching PapiBlogger in May of 2010 but even before that Angela and I did big road trips with our kids through Texas […] Read more

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  Summer has officially started— and PapiBlogger will ride again!  For the fourth consecutive year, my wife and our four kids will take to the roads for another epic family road trip, this time in […] Read more

PapiBlogger will ride again! My wife, four kids and I will be heading to Northern California courtesy of State Farm and Chevy for a 1,300 mile road trip that will take us through Yosemite National […] Read more

BY MANNY RUIZ (@MannyRuiz) Between baby Naomi’s summer birth and my intense work schedule it’s been nearly impossible for my family and I do any vacations this year. A couple weeks ago we finally broke […] Read more

My wife Angela and I just concluded a whirlwind 12-day visit to the West Coast that included baby Naomi’s first airplane ride, her first family road trip courtesy of the new Ford Fusion, celebrity encounters […] Read more