A Family Travel Blog
Soneva Resorts The past few years we’ve become huge fans of the Soneva and Six Senses brands. We’ve previously visited Six Senses properties in Oman, the Maldives, Vietnam and the Seychelles, and Soneva Fushi in the Maldives. Why am I lumping Six Senses and Soneva together? Because they were founded… Read More
The Faroe Islands In choosing his annual destinations for one-on-one trips with me, my 11-year-old son has always gravitated towards islands. See my posts on Easter Island, Palawan, the Maldives, Seychelles and Greenland! So it wasn’t a surprise when he selected the Faroe Islands this year. Planning our Faroe Islands… Read More
Bodrum Family Travel Following eight very active days in Istanbul and Cappadocia, we wanted to relax. So we traveled to Bodrum, in southwest Turkey, where Turks go in the summer to…relax! We flew in from Nevsehir (Cappadocia), via Istanbul. It was supposed to be roughly an hour-long flight from Nevsehir… Read More
Summer Travel In an ideal world we would only travel to destinations during the shoulder seasons, when the weather is perfect and the crowds have thinned. Unfortunately we’re restricted to school breaks, which means that not only do we need to venture places when they’re crowded, we also see a… Read More
Cappadocia Family Travel Cappadocia had been on my travel wish list for a long time. I wanted to see its incredible-looking valley of cave houses. And Instagram and its ubiquitous shots of balloons at sunrise only made me want to go more. When we started sketching out 10 days in… Read More
Six Senses Resorts I first discovered Six Senses four years ago, when my daughter and I were traveling around the world and wanted a unique, kid-friendly stop between Paris and Bali. Six Senses Zighy Bay in Oman, with its paragliding entrance, was a perfect addition to our trip, and since… Read More
Istanbul with Kids I had never been to Istanbul before – one of the major holes in my travel history. By any measure it’s one of the world’s great cities, but I didn’t get there during my earlier travels, and my wife was a little hesitant to take our kids.… Read More
A Three-Day Getaway to Salt Lake City I had never been to Salt Lake City before. I’ve driven through Utah well over a dozen times between Colorado and California – I grew up in Colorado and I live in California and we make frequent visits to Utah’s National Parks –… Read More
San Miguel de Allende with Kids San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (SMA) is routinely listed among the top small cities in the world. Given the hype, the recommendations of friends, and our appreciation of Mexican culture and food, it was finally time to book a trip. We headed down in… Read More
Places to Visit in India It occurred to me that I’ve seen a lot of amazing destinations in India, but I haven’t written about them. The primary reason is that most of my trips to India have been solo on on photography expeditions. Only one trip has been with one… Read More
