A Family Travel Blog
A Europe Family Bucket List! When we’re planning a trip to Europe – or anywhere else – we start looking for activities far in advance. If there’s an amazing festival, we want to know the best way to experience it. If there’s a wonderful guide for a walking tour, we… Read More
We’ve gone on three Disney cruises now – two in the Mediterranean and one in northern Europe – and stopped at 20 different ports. At those stops we’ve done a little of everything on our shore excursions: we’ve booked official Disney Port Adventures; we’ve booked our own private or group shore excursions, and… Read More
“What’s Your Favorite Place in the World?” Almost every time I tell someone I’m a travel writer, I get asked what my favorite destination is. Now that I’ve traveled to 80 countries (Jamaica last week for spring break was number 80), I’ve started giving some thought to my favorite places… Read More
Such a fun travel year! Starting in Colorado and ending in Thailand, I flew 178,790 miles to 20 countries on 4 continents. I don’t think I had flown more than 150,000 miles in a year before? Five countries were solo – India and Japan for photo expeditions, Germany and Spain for travel conferences… Read More
My travels this year have taken me to 19 countries – the US, Belize, India, Mexico, Germany, Indonesia, Australia, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Croatia, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Thailand, Japan and Bermuda – and I’ll add China at the end of December. I’ve flown over 160,000 miles, mainly on… Read More
Note This post includes everything from our first two visits to Naxos. I have a new Naxos Greece post that’s more current based on 2022 travels. Greece with Kids When we travel as a family every summer, we try to spend at least two or three weeks in one place. That… Read More
“A Day Trip” from Naxos to Santorini OK, the title is misleading. When we booked several weeks this summer on the Greek island of Naxos (see my Naxos blog posts here and here) we envisioned doing several day trips to neighboring islands – Naxos to Paros, Naxos to Santorini and Naxos to… 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
Nine years ago, when I used TripAdvisor for the first time—for a two-week drive around New Zealand’s South Island— I used it just to find places to stay. As the site has evolved, my use of it has evolved too. I’ve now posted 120 reviews and, during a recent six-week… Read More
Europe with Kids We’ve taken our three kids (at the time of writing this 4, 6 and 8) to Europe every year since they were born. Some years we stay in one place for several weeks and really get to know the area. Some years we do the opposite, moving… Read More
