A Family Travel Blog
The Planning The earth is 24,874 miles around at the equator. Phileas Fogg traveled around it in 80 days in Jules Verne’s fictional novel, but that was before airplanes. Phineas and Ferb traveled around it in 24 hours, but they have the advantage of being cartoon characters. In reality you could… Read More
Priceless Hawaii When Mastercard asked me to work with them to try out their Concierge service with a trip for me and my family to Honolulu, I didn’t hesitate to say yes. My wife and I got married on the Big Island of Hawaii 12 years ago and went back for several years with… Read More
An Open Letter to Disney Cruise Line Dear Disney, We’ve just returned from our third cruise with you in Europe. There are a lot of things that you do well, and I’ve recommended you before in my Disney Cruise Review and Things to Do in 2016 posts. But Disney Cruises aren’t… Read More
London with Kids We’ve traveled to London with our three kids a couple of times now – when they were 3, 5 and 7 and again when they were 6, 8 and 10. When we’re there we stay active – there’s so much to do it would be a shame… Read More
Kinsale with Kids Kinsale is a great little town on the southern coast of Ireland, roughly 20 minutes from the Cork airport. As we have family in Kinsale we’ve traveled with our kids there several times now and enjoyed it every time. Our favorite things to do: Charles Fort Charles… Read More
We Have Come to Your City for Kürtőskalács Two years ago we spent a week in Salzburg, Austria. Every day we would walk through the central outdoor market stalls, and every day we would purchase Hungarian chimney cakes (Kürtőskalács). They’re simple creations – dough wrapped around a metal cylinder, baked and… Read More
RTW Tickets I’ve always wanted to go around the world. I’ve been to more than 80 countries, and have connected as many as 10 countries in one trip, but I’ve never circled the globe in one itinerary. Even when I’ve traveled halfway around the world, to India or Sri Lanka, it… Read More
I received this inquiry from a reader: I’m wondering if you would be able to give helpful hints and suggestions for our family whose holidays have to be taken “prime time” as I teach (and to add a bigger twist, my hubby’s busy time is summer so he gets only… Read More
I’ve always enjoyed seeing the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner traveling past – a sleek silver train hugging the California coast as it stops at beach towns from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. However, glancing at the southbound Surfliner as I was driving home from the airport, it suddenly seemed uninteresting. Where are the… Read More
Best Instagram Travel Accounts Last year I did a quick blog post on my favorite Instagram accounts and wanted to update it with some of the accounts that I’m now following and really enjoying. This time I put more time into developing this list. I’ve looked through over 800 galleries to see… Read More
