A Family Travel Blog
Note: This post is sponsored by Ecolab. The Center of My Childhood I grew up a block away from The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. Our first family Christmas card, when I was 3 and my sister was 1, featured a photo taken at the hotel, and from that point onward,… Read More
Planning the Best California-Colorado Road Trip Last year, in the course of selling our house in Colorado Springs, we did five California-Colorado road trips (and then back again). I took a different route through Arizona, Nevada and Utah every time, visiting national parks and mountain towns, and seeing the coolest… Read More
Note: This post is sponsored by Ecolab. Wow, it’s been a long 16 months! Last March we returned from Morocco and Spain right before the world shut down and our lives became a lot quieter. Things I remember from the beginning of COVID-19: Being nervous about my wife going to the… Read More
Brand Ambassador Definition What is a Brand Ambassador? Loosely speaking, a brand ambassador is someone who represents your company in a positive light, generating increased brand awareness and, ideally, increased revenue. With social media, brand ambassadorships have increased exponentially. However, there are many types of brand ambassadorships, and they’re not… Read More
Study Abroad – My Story Growing up in Colorado in the ’70s I traveled on planes maybe once a year. Most years we traveled domestically, but three times I got to go overseas – twice to France to see family and once to Fiji. In the days before Internet, and… Read More
The Best Cities in the World During the first pandemic lockdown, I asked my wife and kids to rate every country that we had traveled to. I added in my votes and ranked them, and the result was my post on the The Best Countries to Visit. Then, as more… Read More
Arches National Park Utah The past year, prompted by the COVID pandemic, we switched from international travel to domestic road tripping, and we gravitated to the National Parks. So far in 2020 and 2021 we’ve made 17 visits to eight US National Parks in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California and Colorado.… Read More
2020 2020 isn’t going to be on anyone’s shortlist of favorite years. That doesn’t mean it’s a lost year though. For every cancelled trip, concert and sporting event, there was an opportunity to enjoy a slower way of life, and plenty of time to improve ourselves. In Southern California we… Read More
The Best Christmas Presents Welcome to my holiday gift guide for another year! Given that we traveled far less than normal because of the pandemic, I have a mix of travel and non-travel items this year. As usual, no one has has paid me to include them on this list,… Read More
SW USA – The Best Road Trip Destinations This year, between June and October, we road tripped from California to Colorado four times and from Colorado to California five times. I spent over 200 hours in the car – with some combination of zero, one or two kids – and… Read More
