A Family Travel Blog
A Bangkok Layover Bangkok, Thailand is the perfect layover city. First, there are extremely cheap flights on major carriers to the city and then even cheaper flights on low-cost carriers to elsewhere in Asia. Second, it’s not an expensive city. Third, it’s a cool, interesting city. Despite all of that,… Read More
Universal Orlando I’ve traveled to Universal Orlando seven times the past few years from California, both with and without kids, and have unintentionally acquired a lot of knowledge about how to have a great trip. So I’m writing this post full of my best Universal Orlando tips! But first, a question… Read More
Lake Como with Kids So usually I’m a good travel planner, and I’ve learned a lot about how to plan our trips from what we’ve liked in the past. This summer the criteria in the back of my mind for our annual month in Europe were: I put out my… Read More
I’ve stayed in a lot of hotels around the world! Travelocity asked me to choose my very favorite views – the views that are worth the upgrade. My first list had 55 hotels. I narrowed that down to the final 25. I’m including the first few photos here. The full… Read More
I’m writing this post from Prague at the end of our annual month in Europe. Czechia is our 47th country with kids and our 10th this summer alone. Over dinner we started talking about what we’ve learned through all of this travel and quickly came up with ten pieces of… Read More
Mammoth Lakes with Kids A confession: I had never been to Mammoth Lakes. I have friends who go all the time, and my kids’ school takes ski trips there, but for some reason, I hadn’t visited. When Visit Mammoth invited me to drive up, I accepted immediately. Mammoth Lakes is… Read More
When Volcano Bay opened I wrote up a blog post on visiting Volcano Bay, the 3rd theme park at Universal Orlando Resort. I tried to make it as complete as possible, but then I started getting emails asking what people can and cannot take into Volcano Bay, and what people… Read More
Travelocity asked me to select 20 of my photos from around the world that will not only make you want to travel, but will make you want to book a trip right now! And of course since family travel is my passion, I included my kids in several. Every destination can… Read More
Group Travel with Thomson Family Adventures For the longest time, one of the major gaps in my family travel knowledge was group travel. I’m not opposed to group trips – I’ve done 10 photography trips around the world the past decade – but I hadn’t gone on a family one… Read More
Travel Blogging This is a post I said I’d never do. I like writing about travel and inspiring people to take their kids to new places, and I’ve never wanted to write about blogging. But I get a lot of requests for advice, especially after being featured by several media… Read More
