A Family Travel Blog
Previous Travels in Japan We love Japan. I’ve visited Kyoto and Tokyo twice with my daughter. I’ve traveled around Hiroshima, the Iya Valley, Miyajima and Naoshima Island with National Geographic and I dove deeper into Tokyo with AFAR. When I had my family rate the 60+ countries we’ve visited, Japan… Read More
Cool Hotels I spend an inordinate amount of time choosing hotels when we travel. My criteria: But no matter how amazing a hotel is, it’s primarily a place to base out of when you’re seeing a city…except when it’s not! Sometimes a hotel is the reason for the trip, a… Read More
Vacation Packing Lists – An Introduction I don’t do a lot of destination-specific vacation packing lists, but I go on a lot of adventurous trips and I’ve found myself wishing that I had a single resource to start with regardless of the destination. So I’m creating that resource! This is… Read More
Switzerland I love Switzerland, and hiking in Switzerland, so it’s surprising how little time I’ve actually spent there. I visited several times in college – meeting up with a friend in Zurich, spending a weekend with friends hiking up and down the ski slopes in Crans-Montana and making the requisite… Read More
Travel Health Insurance A confession: we’ve never purchased travel health insurance. We’ve never purchased any sort of travel insurance actually. We’ve always had a medical evacuation policy through MedJet, but that’s not insurance – they’ll simply transfer you to a hospital of your choice if you’re hospitalized in a foreign… Read More
The Brilliance of Sunrise Sunrise and sunset are often accorded the same reverence in literature and song, but on Instagram it’s a different story. A quick search of the #sunset tag shows 300 million posts and a search of the #sunrise tag shows 1/4 that many. The reason: far more people… Read More
Africa with Friends Several years before having kids, I started traveling to Africa with friends. It was amazing! In South Africa we saw the Cape of Good Hope and climbed Cape Town’s Table Mountain. In Zimbabwe we spent several days at Victoria Falls before getting into a local bus, traveling… Read More
Cinque Terre, Italy In over 40 visits to Italy, somehow I had never made it to Cinque Terre. Cinque Terre, a grouping of five towns (plus a couple others) on the Mediterranean, has always been a region based around agriculture – specifically grapes and olives. Then people started hiking from… Read More
Cool Countries to Visit Google sent me a report showing that people have been finding this website by searching for “coolest countries to visit” and “cool countries to visit” which is funny, because I’ve never before written about the coolest countries to visit. So here you go – a post… 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
