Hi, We are Ema and Chris and we started this website in 1999. While our home is in Texas, we've lived in many different places months at a time reserching travel. While our website VacationIdea.com is small with under 200 pages and all the content written by just the two of us, you'll find a host of diverse and hidden vacation ideas for weekend getaways, day trips in the USA, and longer vacations, based on our personal travels. Keeping this website small allows us to keep it up to date with our latest discoveries and photos while we travel. We hope that reading this inspires you to travel to our favorite hidden gems. Why trust us? We founded this site decades ago and not only are we expert road trippers, but we also work with tourism agencies to stay plugged into the latest openings and what's new and unique in travel. Chris is an award-winning photographer and designer, giving our contant a visual polish. We are completely independent content creators and aren't associated with any other companies, channels, networks or marketing groups. We've received many awards and media mentions for our work on VacationIdea.com, including Forbes Best of the Web, abc6 Morning Show, UMich, 7News, WA State Department, and many others.