A Month by Month Guide to the Best Vacations for Kids The most frequent request I get is for a list of suggested destinations by month (i.e. the best vacations for kids by month). I could easily do posts for Where to Travel in January, Where to Travel in February,… Read More
Study Abroad: The Best Decision I Ever Made
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
The Best Cities in the World (Our 20 Favorite Cities Ranked)
The Best Cities in the World During the first pandemic lockdown, I asked my wife and kids to rate every country that we had traveled to. I added in my votes and ranked them, and the result was my post on the The Best Countries to Visit. Then, as more… Read More
Rosetta Stone – the Best Way to Take Advantage of a Slower Year
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
The 10 Best Places in the World to Get Your Kids Outside
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
The Best Countries to Visit (Our 20 Favorite Countries Ranked)
Rating Every Country We’ve Traveled To During the COVID-19 shutdown we were at home and looking for ways to stay entertained, so I asked my wife and kids to rate every country they’ve been to from 1 to 10. I added in my votes and ranked every country that had… Read More
Bucket List Family Travel: Our Top 10 Epic One-on-One Trips
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
Europe with Kids: The 10 Best Family Holiday Destinations in Europe
Best European Cities with Kids We’ve traveled throughout a lot of Europe with kids the past 16 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 top… Read More
Italy Unplugged: A Week in Emilia Romagna (and San Marino)
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
Hiking in Sweden: The Icebug Xperience West Coast Trail
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
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