Highlights from Saturday’s major PapiBlogger Family Road Trip send off with Ronald McDonald’s at the McDonald’s in South Miami.

In preparation for that trip into a far and unknown land, the organizing pastor told us that the most important thing we should do to mentally gear up for it was to remember the unofficial motto of the United States Marines: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.

When I think about my real “Papi” this Father’s Day, there are numerous legacies he’s left me but two that in particular have served me well.

This Brazilian Poopy Dancer ought to be on Dancing with the Stars!

My phobia for roaches helped me develop a parenting trick a couple years ago that can be very useful for those of you who have kids that are unsteady with their food or drinks in the house. In other words, this trick is for parents whose children ALWAYS spill food or drinks.

In the beginning of my “career” as a video game junkie in the late 70s there was no Playstation or Xbox.  Back then, avid arcade players like me had to settle for what are now […] Read more

A Miami family of five is about to embark on what might be this century’s epic U.S. family road trip. Starting on Father’s Day, PapiBlogger.com founder and father of three Manny Ruiz, his wife Angela and their children Briani (1), Elena (6) and Jonathan (10) will embark on a 10,000-mile PapiBlogger Family Road Trip that will circle the four corners of the continental United States.

My two older kids Jonathan (10) and Elena (6) have already eaten more foods from more countries than most adults will ever try in their entire lifetime. If you didn’t know them before they first […] Read more

My wife, kids and I were recently at a local park’s chocolate festival when something stunning happened to my one year-old Briani.  As my son Jonathan took his little sister near a donkey that a […] Read more