CES 2024: Our Top 20 Favorite Home Tech
Every year we visit CES it’s the same. People ask us what we saw, we say, oh not much. Nothing that exciting. Then we make our list of products and we have to debate...
Author: Valerie Antkowiak
2023 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our tenth smart home holiday gift guide! We’ve been sharing our favorite home technology gift ideas every year since 2014. We used to wait until Black Friday, but it now seems shopping...
Smart Home Tour: Behind the Scenes at AppMyHome
Our friend and fellow creator Brandon Doyle came through California on his Tesla road trip and stopped to take a tour of our smart home. We had a great time showing him around and...
FoodMarble AIRE 2 Review: Now Measuring Methane
Almost everyone has experienced digestive issues in their life. Bloating, constipation, diarrhea, gas – it’s not fun to talk about but most of us can relate. For some folks, occasionally discomfort and inconvenience can...
A Week in Provence
We spent a relaxing week in Provence, from our home base in the hilltop town of Bonnieux.
Tasting Wine and Truffles in Alba, Italy
From Bologna, we traveled to the northwest of Italy, to Piedmont. On our last trip to Italy in 2018, our friends Pete and Kari joined us in Siena, then they traveled up to Piedmont...
Bologna: Europe’s Oldest College Town
I’ve always enjoyed visiting college towns – from Ann Arbor to Madison, to Cambridge, both Massachusetts and the UK. In 2021 we visited Coimbra, the home of Europe’s second oldest university, so this time,...
Two Weeks in Siena
We traveled to Italy and Provence in the fall of 2022 and it was great to get back to more normal traveling – no pandemic restrictions, no masks required – but the crowds were...
Peloton Guide Review: Best Features, Benefits and Tips
I’ve been a Peloton member since March 2021. I didn’t buy my Bike Plus during the original peloton pandemic frenzy in 2020, but I ordered it during our second California COVID shut down in...
CES 2023: Smart Home Insights
It’s been a few weeks since our annual trip to Las Vegas for CES 2023 and we’ve had some time to reflect on our experience. It’s still the best place for us to see...