A Family Travel Blog
Rating Every Country We’ve Been To As of right now, the COVID-19 travel shutdown, I’ve traveled to 97 countries and my kids have, in some combination, been to 62 countries. We’ve been spending the lockdown with online school, puzzles, hiking, ping pong, volleyball and cooking, but there’s still a lot… Read More
Things to Do in Tokyo I’ve traveled to Tokyo a lot over the years, including two trips with my youngest daughter (her annual trips at 7 and 8) and an AFAR Experience where we went below the surface. It’s gone from being a city that intimidated me to one that… Read More
Doha, Qatar with Kids Last year I flew to Doha with Qatar Airways and did absolutely as much as possible in Doha and out in the desert over three days. It was a great trip and I was impressed with Qatar and its people, but I wished that I had… Read More
Single Parent Travel My oldest daughter just turned 14, which means that I’ve been taking one-on-one trips with my kids for 10 years. The short version of how the tradition started: my daughter, at 3, wanted to go to Antarctica. I told her that we could go when she was… Read More
Best European Cities for Kids We’ve traveled throughout a lot of Europe with our kids the past 13 years – 70+ cities in 20+ countries – and I made a short list of our favorite kid-friendly European cities. Then I deleted the largest two, London and Paris, since they’re the… Read More
Family Travel Inspiration I created my family travel blog to inspire people to take their kids everywhere. It’s why I post to social media as well. It’s an amazing world. The more places you take your kids, and the more cultures they see in person, the more it will change… Read More
Asia with Kids If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I let each of my kids choose any annual destination that he/she wants. And sometimes I’ll stretch the rules and let the kids choose multiple destinations and/or go all the way around the world. Well, sometimes… Read More
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
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
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
