The Art of Traveling with Family: A Vlogger's Perspective

As I sit here on the 520 bridge, I'm reminded that traveling can be a wonderful experience, especially when shared with loved ones. My family and I have been on our fair share of adventures together, and today was no exception. We're a bit of an unconventional family, always seeking out humor in even the most mundane situations.

As we approached the toll bridge, my daughter asked if she could wave at people as we passed by. I chuckled and said, "Well, I don't think that's going to happen too often." She laughed and replied, "But Dad, it would be fun!" And so, as we cruised across the bridge, I encouraged her to keep waving at those who let us pass. It was a simple act of kindness that brought a smile to my face.

Traveling can be a great equalizer. When you're on a road trip with family, everyone gets an equal say in what's going on. And sometimes, that means hearing your opinions even when they're not exactly the most popular ones. But it's this kind of interaction that makes traveling so rewarding.

As we waited for our food to arrive, my daughter asked me if she could get a salad instead of spaghetti, citing that bean soup would fill her up more. I smiled and said, "Well, you know what? You got a salad, and your dinner is just a little lighter because of it." It was a lighthearted moment that set the tone for the rest of our meal.

One of the most striking things about traveling with family is how it can bring people together. When we're all on the same page, we share laughter, stories, and experiences that create lifelong memories. And sometimes, those moments are even more precious when they're not exactly planned or anticipated.

As a vlogger, I'm always looking for ways to capture the best moments of our travels. Whether it's a stunning view or an unexpected surprise, I want to convey the joy and excitement that comes with exploring new places. Today was no exception – every moment on this bridge felt like a mini-adventure in itself.

As we finished up our meal and headed out onto the road again, I couldn't help but think about how much my family has grown and changed over the years. From our daily routine to our favorite jokes and quirks, we've become an extension of each other. And it's this sense of unity that makes traveling so special.

One of the most surprising things about today was when my daughter asked me what I thought she should wear the next day. It was a simple question, but one that made me realize how quickly our lives can change and adapt. As parents, we're constantly trying to find ways to keep up with our kids' growth and interests. And it's this sense of curiosity and openness that makes traveling so rewarding.

In many ways, our travels have become an extension of ourselves – a way to connect with the world around us while still being true to who we are as a family. And it's this kind of authenticity that I strive for in my vlogging – to capture the real moments, the laughter, and the love that makes every day special.

As we continued on our journey, I couldn't help but think about how much I'm learning from my daughter. From her love of humor to her enthusiasm for trying new things, she's teaching me that life is all about embracing the unexpected and finding joy in every moment. And as a vlogger, it's this kind of perspective that I want to share with the world – a reminder that even on the most mundane days, there's always room for laughter, love, and adventure.

The 520 bridge may have started out feeling like just another road trip, but by the end of our journey, it had become so much more. It was a symbol of our connection to each other, to the world around us, and to the simple pleasures in life that make every day special. And as we drove off into the sunset, I couldn't help but feel grateful for this little family of mine – and the memories we're creating together along the way.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthank you for watching liking commenting sharing and subscribing right now I'm making bacon The Breakfast of Champions don't you agree Wick it I even saved the paper for Dad to read you know so he can get his news dad takes longer than Diana does dad you know you have an iPad yeah I know I'm checking my notes and an iPhone yeah I'm checking my notes it's all stuff I got to remember and do it's easier to pull out sometimes than getting the phone out then you're doing it wrong I got it both I got the phone with me too then what do you use the phone for uh to keep the notes when they get too old to keep on my paper so you ready for your last full day here in Seattle I am yeah uh it's going to end good cuz we're going to go get spaghetti not just spaghetti all you can eat spaghetti and meatballs all you can eat I've just been invited to be on the local news broadcast tomorrow morning at 7:45 we're have to drive across town and minutes after that I got invited by the same station to come on the 5:00 p.m. broadcast today which means I have to get a shave and a haircut well I I'll probably shave myself I'm not going to trust anybody else to do it cuz I want to look presentable on new that could shave you on the way let's not do that okay it'd be a bad idea be a bad idea to do that when we weren't moving I wanted to remind everybody that I have my first Haircut video on YouTube with a younger version of Dad yeah it's sced shave cam didn't I used to watch you shave when I was a kid yeah but I cut myself a lot cuz I use a regular blade yeah I didn't really I didn't really like the regular blades cuz it was too messy yeah it is i' cut myself a lot yeah I also didn't like that I'm an electric shaver guy but when I used electric then my face would break out as a young man so I just got away from it well it could be the electric shaver that you're using honestly I I had to try several of them before I finally found one that I liked I'm about to show Dad how to use os10 really officially for the first time although you've been watching me throughout the week and yeah and I watched mom a little bit yeah she's from We're bolting across town at the last minute really to get to news station to do a broadcast right in the middle of Microsoft's big announcement today we made it and now we're waiting in the lobby so now I have my own TV station we're going to be back here before 8:00 tomorrow morning you know what we might as well just sleep here if we didn't have to drive across town to get that all you can eat spaghetti and meatballs I think they could probably let us curl up with a camera or two it's a comfortable couch I can't believe I'm actually asking dad for a piece of paper I need to bring it out during the segment I don't want to forget some of these I knew there was a reason I carried this shut up just to say and you know the funny thing is we recorded that segment earlier today so this is appearing in the same freaking video Father Knows Best dad is always right most of the time it's a game changer in the sense that this is Microsoft's first real PC that they're doing on their own they're marrying hardware and software turn that off so I wonder if they'll hire me for The Simpsons why well because I was in the cast you were in the cast yeah I got a cast picture coming out in the future yeah that was just a cardboard cut out oh was it I thought I was live it definitely wasn't live so do you have any imparting words of wisdom that have nothing to do with technology for our vlogging audience well the only thing I can tell you is finally after the baseball season began the Cubs are in first place in their division and first place in all of baseball of course that's going from the bottom up but they're still in first place and to all the people that signed up for Twitter with me I appreciate that's fun that's it's kind of neat to know that there's some young people out there that don't mind uh reading what an old guy writes well I'm an old guy to them too not as old as I you didn't see the gray hairs being clipped onto the floor today they I it was startling my hat yeah I may have to start wearing hats more frequently then you go bald they say I don't think that's going to happen either anytime soon yeah I don't think I need to worry about it either just let me in yay thank you I always wave at the people who let me in that's very very nice cuz we are going to get over watch this guy CU you don't know what he wants to he's going a little slow too so I'm going to try to speed up a bit she I need to get over because we are going on the 520 bridge again well again because uh dad's never been on the 520 bridge it's a toll bridge out here right now Diana was on it we got on it by accident in fact uh she was thrilled about that accident there we go four lanes of traffic in the tool bridge I don't think it's really changed traffic patterns all that much I think people just woke up and realized well I'll just spend a couple bucks to take the bridge if it saves me an hour's worth of time well that's your question how much is your time worth and I talk about this with entrepreneurs all the time like well how much is your time worth and you know if it's a if it if you spend $2.50 to save an hour you're making money essentially if your time's worth more than 250 an hour if you can make money rather than cut your grass you're better if you can make more money by not cutting your grass in other words hire someone to cut your grass and you can be working on things that really make you money now I got to let you know this feels no different than any other Bridge you've been on ever it feels just like a bridge which feels just like a road and you'll be able to see Bill Gates house actually this must be interesting to watch going across the bridge not seeing anything go out this way it's kind of overcast dad's vlogging I'm glad you were able to come up for the time that you did because Mom was away in Texas and Diana was in another part of Texas I would have been pretty bored well thanks I'm glad you had me I I've really enjoyed it this is a good trip his mom wasn't there no one was just you and me that was nice and you taught me a lot more wait a minute I thought you were getting all you can eat spaghetti that's why I got this instead of the bean soup cuz the bean soup would fill me up a little more so I thought I'd get the salad just a little lighter uhhuh I got a salad as well but my dinner Fair will be just a little lighter since I don't get all you can eat trust me we're going to be here for a while here we are with plate number one and plate number only with uh chicken breast some bacon cheese avocado onion tomato lettuce pickle he's on plate five 54 you petered out around 78 was hard work but I did it I think it came out to be about $12 total total I am an extreme couponer we just still you know an 18 hour day down to 10 minutes so there's a lot of interaction that anybody might do you just don't see it yeah well we had a couple comments people didn't think I was treating you well you don't think that do you well let me think about that yeah you treat me well you always do it's just they I think they don't understand our Perillo sense of humor sarcasm that kind of thing ah know no we always kind of been a a family of humor we approach everything in humor we really do honestly yeah we like to laugh that's our coping mechanism is using that's true we'll be in a stressful situation and we'll crack a joke we're putting together set number 6868 Hulk hel carrier breakout oh that wasn't so hard no no no no you just opened the bags and Spilled I thought that all you wanted me to do no no no to reward dad for assembling this I'm going to make him some popcorn he had no idea that I was going to do that see he's beaming it's cool but now the way this couldn't figure out why this moves but this is this is designed so like if you're get in trouble in the air you can pop the canopy and bail out and you know he must have been into it because for the past 10 minutes that big bowl of popcorn has been sitting there taunting him yeah it's like a time cat what they call a time cat kind of need your help guys what should I wear tomorrow oh yeah and don't forget to like this videothank you for watching liking commenting sharing and subscribing right now I'm making bacon The Breakfast of Champions don't you agree Wick it I even saved the paper for Dad to read you know so he can get his news dad takes longer than Diana does dad you know you have an iPad yeah I know I'm checking my notes and an iPhone yeah I'm checking my notes it's all stuff I got to remember and do it's easier to pull out sometimes than getting the phone out then you're doing it wrong I got it both I got the phone with me too then what do you use the phone for uh to keep the notes when they get too old to keep on my paper so you ready for your last full day here in Seattle I am yeah uh it's going to end good cuz we're going to go get spaghetti not just spaghetti all you can eat spaghetti and meatballs all you can eat I've just been invited to be on the local news broadcast tomorrow morning at 7:45 we're have to drive across town and minutes after that I got invited by the same station to come on the 5:00 p.m. broadcast today which means I have to get a shave and a haircut well I I'll probably shave myself I'm not going to trust anybody else to do it cuz I want to look presentable on new that could shave you on the way let's not do that okay it'd be a bad idea be a bad idea to do that when we weren't moving I wanted to remind everybody that I have my first Haircut video on YouTube with a younger version of Dad yeah it's sced shave cam didn't I used to watch you shave when I was a kid yeah but I cut myself a lot cuz I use a regular blade yeah I didn't really I didn't really like the regular blades cuz it was too messy yeah it is i' cut myself a lot yeah I also didn't like that I'm an electric shaver guy but when I used electric then my face would break out as a young man so I just got away from it well it could be the electric shaver that you're using honestly I I had to try several of them before I finally found one that I liked I'm about to show Dad how to use os10 really officially for the first time although you've been watching me throughout the week and yeah and I watched mom a little bit yeah she's from We're bolting across town at the last minute really to get to news station to do a broadcast right in the middle of Microsoft's big announcement today we made it and now we're waiting in the lobby so now I have my own TV station we're going to be back here before 8:00 tomorrow morning you know what we might as well just sleep here if we didn't have to drive across town to get that all you can eat spaghetti and meatballs I think they could probably let us curl up with a camera or two it's a comfortable couch I can't believe I'm actually asking dad for a piece of paper I need to bring it out during the segment I don't want to forget some of these I knew there was a reason I carried this shut up just to say and you know the funny thing is we recorded that segment earlier today so this is appearing in the same freaking video Father Knows Best dad is always right most of the time it's a game changer in the sense that this is Microsoft's first real PC that they're doing on their own they're marrying hardware and software turn that off so I wonder if they'll hire me for The Simpsons why well because I was in the cast you were in the cast yeah I got a cast picture coming out in the future yeah that was just a cardboard cut out oh was it I thought I was live it definitely wasn't live so do you have any imparting words of wisdom that have nothing to do with technology for our vlogging audience well the only thing I can tell you is finally after the baseball season began the Cubs are in first place in their division and first place in all of baseball of course that's going from the bottom up but they're still in first place and to all the people that signed up for Twitter with me I appreciate that's fun that's it's kind of neat to know that there's some young people out there that don't mind uh reading what an old guy writes well I'm an old guy to them too not as old as I you didn't see the gray hairs being clipped onto the floor today they I it was startling my hat yeah I may have to start wearing hats more frequently then you go bald they say I don't think that's going to happen either anytime soon yeah I don't think I need to worry about it either just let me in yay thank you I always wave at the people who let me in that's very very nice cuz we are going to get over watch this guy CU you don't know what he wants to he's going a little slow too so I'm going to try to speed up a bit she I need to get over because we are going on the 520 bridge again well again because uh dad's never been on the 520 bridge it's a toll bridge out here right now Diana was on it we got on it by accident in fact uh she was thrilled about that accident there we go four lanes of traffic in the tool bridge I don't think it's really changed traffic patterns all that much I think people just woke up and realized well I'll just spend a couple bucks to take the bridge if it saves me an hour's worth of time well that's your question how much is your time worth and I talk about this with entrepreneurs all the time like well how much is your time worth and you know if it's a if it if you spend $2.50 to save an hour you're making money essentially if your time's worth more than 250 an hour if you can make money rather than cut your grass you're better if you can make more money by not cutting your grass in other words hire someone to cut your grass and you can be working on things that really make you money now I got to let you know this feels no different than any other Bridge you've been on ever it feels just like a bridge which feels just like a road and you'll be able to see Bill Gates house actually this must be interesting to watch going across the bridge not seeing anything go out this way it's kind of overcast dad's vlogging I'm glad you were able to come up for the time that you did because Mom was away in Texas and Diana was in another part of Texas I would have been pretty bored well thanks I'm glad you had me I I've really enjoyed it this is a good trip his mom wasn't there no one was just you and me that was nice and you taught me a lot more wait a minute I thought you were getting all you can eat spaghetti that's why I got this instead of the bean soup cuz the bean soup would fill me up a little more so I thought I'd get the salad just a little lighter uhhuh I got a salad as well but my dinner Fair will be just a little lighter since I don't get all you can eat trust me we're going to be here for a while here we are with plate number one and plate number only with uh chicken breast some bacon cheese avocado onion tomato lettuce pickle he's on plate five 54 you petered out around 78 was hard work but I did it I think it came out to be about $12 total total I am an extreme couponer we just still you know an 18 hour day down to 10 minutes so there's a lot of interaction that anybody might do you just don't see it yeah well we had a couple comments people didn't think I was treating you well you don't think that do you well let me think about that yeah you treat me well you always do it's just they I think they don't understand our Perillo sense of humor sarcasm that kind of thing ah know no we always kind of been a a family of humor we approach everything in humor we really do honestly yeah we like to laugh that's our coping mechanism is using that's true we'll be in a stressful situation and we'll crack a joke we're putting together set number 6868 Hulk hel carrier breakout oh that wasn't so hard no no no no you just opened the bags and Spilled I thought that all you wanted me to do no no no to reward dad for assembling this I'm going to make him some popcorn he had no idea that I was going to do that see he's beaming it's cool but now the way this couldn't figure out why this moves but this is this is designed so like if you're get in trouble in the air you can pop the canopy and bail out and you know he must have been into it because for the past 10 minutes that big bowl of popcorn has been sitting there taunting him yeah it's like a time cat what they call a time cat kind of need your help guys what should I wear tomorrow oh yeah and don't forget to like this video\n"