A Family Travel Blog
Giving the Gift of Travel Memories last forever. It’s a cliché usually printed over inspirational Instagram photographs, but it’s also true. As a family with three kids under age 10, we’ve taken it to heart. And we’ve done so with travel. Unlike many friends who choose to travel the world… 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
San Diego with Kids My five-year-old hates being the third child, and she lets us know frequently that she hates it. Which is fair. After all, her older brother and sister get to do everything first, and she usually doesn’t get the deciding vote in family decisions. After a challenging summer traveling… Read More
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
The Truth About Family Travel My goal is to inspire you to take your kids to incredible places, and through my writing I try to portray the excitement of family travel and the benefits that come from it. When I think back on a trip, whether it’s a week later or… Read More
Four Seasons Orlando – a Review I do very few posts that are pure hotel reviews – TripAdvisor is great if you’re just looking for reviews. But sometimes a hotel is the destination (Four Seasons Bora Bora), or a hotel stands out because of what they do wrong from a kid perspective (the Mauna… Read More
2022/2023 Update This post includes everything from our first two visits to Naxos. I have a new Naxos Greece post that’s more current based on last summer’s travels. Greece with Kids When we travel as a family every summer, we try to spend at least two or three weeks in one… 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
Aspen with Kids I grew up in Colorado and have great memories of road trips around the state when I was a kid – usually to the mountains, the sand dunes or the national parks. So now that my kids are 5, 7 and 9, I want to take them around the… Read More
The LEGO Inside Tour – a Review The LEGO Inside Tour. I first heard of this tour at LEGOLAND Billund three years ago, and it seemed too good to be true – a Golden Ticket in the Willy Wonka spirit that lets 140 people a year (four groups of 35) tour… Read More
