A Family Travel Blog
The Best Big City Hotels This month Travelocity asked me to write about my favorite big city hotels, as a complement to my post on amazing destination hotels. I loved doing this post and thinking through everywhere we’ve stayed in the world’s largest cities, and which hotels really impressed us… Read More
My Favorite Hotel Arrivals I’m always looking for the coolest possible kid experiences when we travel, and sometimes that includes hotel arrivals. You’re probably thinking: how can a hotel arrival be unique? You get off the plane, take a car or taxi to your hotel, and you’re there. But some… Read More
Around the World Two years ago I went around the world with my 10-year-old daughter in two weeks. It was supposed to be a crazy one-time adventure – seven cities, six countries, four continents to max out summer vacation and visit a bunch of her favorite places. Fast forward to… Read More
Singapore with Kids A disclaimer: I am not an expert on Singapore! But I’ve now flown through the city five times, staying for one day / two nights each visit, so I’ve become pretty good at maxing out our one full day there. And I’ve stayed in four hotels those… Read More
It was another amazing year of travel! I didn’t quite match my 2016 statistics, flying 230,511 miles, or roughly 25,000 fewer than last year, but I couldn’t have fit another trip in if I tried! My 21 countries included (in order): US, UK, Oman, UAE, Costa Rica, Chile, Bermuda, Mexico,… Read More
Sponsored by Zappos When Zappos approached me with a month-long campaign with Blundstone Boots and follow my life as a travel writer, I said yes immediately. I don’t think there’s another brand that would fit into our lifestyle as well as Blundstone. And we use Zappos all the time, taking advantage of their… Read More
Twice now my daughter has chosen Tokyo for her annual one-on-one trip with me. She loves Japan – the culture, the language, the food (at least the Japanese food that’s common in the US), and the anime that she watches frequently on Netflix and YouTube. Originally I wasn’t excited about… Read More
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
The Maldives with Kids For my son’s nine-year-old trip with me, he chose the Maldives. This wasn’t a surprise – he’s always liked remote islands and turquoise waters. The only issue was with the distance. The Maldives are almost exactly halfway around the world from California, 12 time zones away. Not a major problem… Read More
Note: This post originally appeared on Travelocity’s Inspire Hub. It Started with Penguins It was a simple request: “I want to go to Antarctica.” It came from my daughter who was studying penguins in school. She was three. I said yes. I mean, of course I said yes. I wanted… Read More
