A Family Travel Blog
The Dolomites Several years ago I visited the Dolomites for the first time with my family, splitting our time between Val di Fassa and Val di Fiemme. I absolutely loved the trip, but I admit that I still didn’t have a good feel for the Dolomites overall. There are 12… Read More
Your Pre-Travel Checklist If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I travel a lot. On average I fly somewhere once a month – mostly with my kids. That’s a lot of trips to coordinate, and a lot of details to think through. I’ve always used spreadsheets to track… Read More
The Beijing Taxi Scam In traveling through more than seventy countries, I’ve had very few bad experiences. And I’ve become a better traveler because of each one. This is the first in a series of posts about the worst things that have happened to me on the road and how they changed my travel… Read More
The Best Age to Travel the World A question I get a lot is: what is the best age to take my kids to _______. Fill in the blank with anywhere: Hawaii; Europe; Africa; Australia. The answer is to some extent specific to the place, but it’s also specific to… Read More
Ocean View Hotels I’ve been getting a lot of requests from people for ocean view hotels – either in specific locations or anywhere in the world. We love hotels with good views, especially with kids. If we’re somewhere with young kids and they need downtime in the middle of the… Read More
Airport to Hotel Transportation A reader recommended that I write a post with options for traveling from the airport to a hotel. So here you go! Obviously a post like this can’t be specific, but we’ve flown into hundreds of airports and had to get to our hotel every time,… Read More
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
Credit Cards for Kids and Teens I wanted to get credit cards for my kids well before they were teens. There were several reasons for this: Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card Several years ago, Capital One reached out wanting to work with me. I ended up partnering with them… Read More
Australia for the Holidays We typically spend Christmas in Colorado, and it’s cold in Colorado in December. This year my daughters asked if we could go somewhere warm immediately after Christmas Day. Sounded good to me too! I looked at the Caribbean, but the airlines make it difficult to get… Read More
Arches National Park Utah Prompted by the pandemic, we switched from international travel to domestic road tripping, and we gravitated to the National Parks. Between 2020 and 2024 we made 19 visits to nine US National Parks in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California and Colorado. An $80 Annual Pass for the… Read More
