A Family Travel Blog
Study Abroad – My Story Growing up in Colorado in the ’70s I traveled on planes maybe once a year. Most years we traveled domestically, but three times I got to go overseas – twice to France to see family and once to Fiji. In the days before Internet, and… Read More
2020 2020 isn’t going to be on anyone’s shortlist of favorite years. That doesn’t mean it’s a lost year though. For every cancelled trip, concert and sporting event, there was an opportunity to enjoy a slower way of life, and plenty of time to improve ourselves. In Southern California we… Read More
Family Adventure Vacations We’re always heading off on adventures around the world. Just the way we travel is an adventure – around-the-world trips with the kids, taking float planes to remote islands, walking across Tuscany – but we’re also active, hiking, kayaking, climbing and cycling wherever we can. Last year… Read More
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
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
Italy I love Italy. I studied in Florence in college and have returned a few dozen times since then, but I’ve also been branching out the past few years, both with and without my kids. We spent two weeks on Lake Como. We hiked in the Dolomites. I headed to… Read More
Icebug If you haven’t heard of Icebug before, you’re not alone. It’s a very cool Swedish shoe brand that’s big in Scandinavia, but is only now expanding to the rest of the world. Their shoes and boots are known for their excellent traction – both in the summer and winter.… Read More
Sweden I’ve never spent much time in Sweden. Blame my Norwegian roots. The Swedes and Norwegians traditionally haven’t gotten along, and as I’m 33% Norwegian and only 4% Swedish, the Norwegian side won out. I’ve backpacked around Norway. I studied two summers at the University of Oslo. I’ve spent holidays… 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
