A Family Travel Blog
Glacier National Park with Kids A few summers ago, in conjunction with Visit Montana, my 7-year-old daughter and I flew to Whitefish, Montana and explored Whitefish and Glacier National Park for four days. It remains one of my favorite trips – it was an easy destination from Los Angeles, the… Read More
For my daughter’s second-grade state report, she chose South Carolina. She enjoyed learning about the state so much that she decided we should go there for one of our family vacations. I loved the idea of heading to Charleston with kids and timing it over spring break worked out perfectly.… Read More
A Villa in Tuscany with Kids A few years ago we agreed to take the kids (1, 3 and 5) on a Disney Cruise through the Mediterranean. Expecting to basically be trapped on a Disney ride for 12 nights, we scheduled the next part of the summer to be far more relaxing…a… Read More
One on One Travel When my daughter was four, I took her to Australia – the start of our tradition of one-on-one travel. When she turned five, we decided to head off again, and this time she chose China. She was studying Mandarin in Pre-K and wanted to travel to… Read More
Rosewood Mayakoba with Kids We’ve been searching for a perfect kid-friendly hotel since, well, our kids were born. The Mauna Lani in Hawaii was our default destination every year for winter break or spring break, and it used to be extremely kid-friendly, but in recent years they’ve done away with… Read More
A Disney Mediterranean Cruise Review – Disney Magic Disney Cruise Updates This post was written after our first two Mediterranean Disney cruises. Our third cruise, in Northern Europe, wasn’t as good, mainly because the cold weather drove everyone inside which led to overcrowding and highlighted issues that we kind of glossed over… Read More
I typically don’t spend a lot of time looking back – I would rather be planning the next adventure than thinking about (or editing photos from) the last one. But I started this blog to provide inspiration on where to go in the world, what to do and where to stay,… Read More
Havana, Cuba My story starts in Cuba. I was in Havana for a week on a US-approved cultural trip through Santa Fe Photo Workshops. Each morning at 6am there was an optional photo walk around a different section of the city. The first morning I went and didn’t capture anything that… Read More
Kid-Friendly Hotels Listen up hotels! I’ve stayed at a lot of you, and some of you are definitely more kid-friendly than others. I’ve written before about things that could be improved at specific hotels (the Mauna Lani in Hawaii, the Four Seasons Bora Bora), but since readers of this blog have given… Read More
How to Travel for Less We travel a lot with our kids – 15 countries or so most years. We couldn’t do it if we were paying full prices for everything, or getting gouged by avoidable fees. These are the top 10 things I do to travel for less, and… Read More
