A Family Travel Blog
Spring Break Ideas – Introduction I receive a lot of emails asking for ideas for family spring break trips. Some emails give me enough to work with, but many don’t. For those shorter emails, I respond with several questions to help them in narrowing down destination options: Before I list… Read More
Travel Health Insurance A confession: we’ve never purchased travel health insurance. We’ve never purchased any sort of travel insurance actually. We’ve always had a medical evacuation policy through MedJet, but that’s not insurance – they’ll simply transfer you to a hospital of your choice if you’re hospitalized in a foreign… Read More
The Best Travel Shirt (The Best Everything Shirt) I became an ambassador for Unbound Merino five months ago and they sent me several shirts to wear and promote – in addition to socks and underwear. During that time I traveled to Hawaii, Italy, France, Colorado (twice) and Saudi Arabia, and… Read More
Alternatives to Disneyland 2022/2023 I first did this post three years ago and was confident in my pricing of both Disneyland vacations and international travel alternatives. It’s time for an update! Disney prices go up every year, but in this era of inflation other travel costs have gone up as… Read More
Ocean View Hotels I’ve been getting a lot of requests from people for ocean view hotels – either in specific locations or anywhere in the world. We love hotels with good views, especially with kids. If we’re somewhere with young kids and they need downtime in the middle of the… Read More
Ojai Restaurants in 2024 – an Introduction We’ve lived near Ojai, California for over a decade and we’re pretty knowledgeable when it comes to Ojai restaurants. Having said that, there have been a lot of changes lately, with some favorite places closing and new restaurants popping up at their locations.… Read More
The Brilliance of Sunrise Sunrise and sunset are often accorded the same reverence in literature and song, but on Instagram it’s a different story. A quick search of the #sunset tag shows 300 million posts and a search of the #sunrise tag shows 1/4 that many. The reason: far more people… Read More
Visiting Saudi: An Introduction For me, Saudi was always the Schrodinger’s Cat of countries: I simultaneously wanted to visit and didn’t want to visit. I’ve had friends over the years who lived there with their families as ex-pats and it seemed fascinating – a wealthy country mostly hidden from the… Read More
My 2021 Gift Guide – An Introduction Welcome to the holidays! Throughout the year I’ve kept track of things that I liked so I could include them here. A lot of these are things we stumbled upon, and some are here because the brands reached out to me, wanting to… Read More
Things to Do in Paris, France Paris was my first international destination when I was seven years old, and we’ve taken our kids to Paris several times – as a family of five and as a leg of an around-the-world trip. I’ve also traveled to Paris with friends and solo… Read More
