“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
2015: A Look Back on a Record Travel Year
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
Best of 2015: Favorite Things Around the World
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
Florence Can Be Kid-Friendly: Just Follow These Tips
Written for wendyperrin.com When I won Condé Nast Traveler’s Dream Trip contest, it was based on my essay about wanting to take my kids to Florence, a city I loved but that I didn’t think of as kid-friendly. Wendy and her WOW List expert Maria Landers from Concierge in Umbria crafted a great… Read More
A Villa in Tuscany for a Month
A Villa in Tuscany with Kids A few years ago we agreed to take the kids (1, 3 and 5) on a Disney Cruise through the Mediterranean. Expecting to basically be trapped on a Disney ride for 12 nights, we scheduled the next part of the summer to be far more relaxing…a… Read More
2014: The Best Travel Year Yet
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
The Time I Took a Walk in Cuba and Won $25,000
Havana, Cuba My story starts in Cuba. I was in Havana for a week on a US-approved cultural trip through Santa Fe Photo Workshops. Each morning at 6am there was an optional photo walk around a different section of the city. The first morning I went and didn’t capture anything that… Read More
How to Pack for a Family Vacation
Note from Wendy Perrin: One of the biggest, saddest obstacles to international travel with kids is the perception that you’ll need to haul around a ton of luggage. It’s a misperception, as Eric Stoen, the founder of Travel Babbo, shows us. Eric is a frequent international traveler whom I met… Read More
15 Kid-Friendly Highlights from Europe
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
Venice with Kids
Venice with Kids – Getting Away from the Crowds When we booked a Disney cruise departing in July from Venice, my immediate thought turned to how to give my young kids (4, 6 and 8) a great introduction to the city. The conventional wisdom is that July is a bad… Read More