Cabo with Kids I’ve lived in California for over 18 years, but had never before visited Los Cabos – the area of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula that includes the towns of San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas – despite it being an extremely easy, nearby destination. So in mid-December… Read More
Our Best Jet Lag Tips for Family Travel
Tips for Jet Lag I get asked about jet lag all the time but I’ve never written about it. I’ve always thought of it as a necessary evil. When flying across multiple time zones, it simply takes your sleep patterns a while to adjust. This year (2018) I’ve flown 200,000+… Read More
Tips for Optimizing Your Frequent Flyer Miles
Thank you to Capital One for sponsoring this post. Frequent Flyer Miles My relationship with frequent flyer miles, or points, changed forever around 6pm on February 16, 1999. Up until then, I hadn’t paid much attention to my airline-based mileage accounts. I flew internationally once or twice a year, and… Read More
Kyoto with Kids
Kyoto Family Travel My 8-year-old daughter loves Japan, and two years in row has chosen Tokyo for her annual one-on-one trips with me. This year I suggested adding on Kyoto as well and she agreed – both because she had already read all about Kyoto, and because she wanted to… Read More
The Celebrity Edge with Kids: A Review
Note (March/April 2019) Celebrity has a special right now where kids 17 and under in your cabin sail free. This is good for most sailings between April and December 2019, and is good for any of Celebrity’s ships. But book the Celebrity Edge, for all of the below reasons! You… Read More
What’s Always in My Carry-On (and How I Never Leave Anything Behind)
Thank you to Adero for sponsoring this post. I’ve done packing posts before on the little things that we travel with to make our vacations more stress-free, but I’ve never written about what I travel with in my carry-on. These are the important things; what I would never put under… Read More
Ten Ways to Travel for Less
Capital One Smart Money I’ve loved writing for Capital One‘s Smart Money series this year. This has included: Looking at Travel as an Investment How to Save for Travel (on Capital One’s blog) When to Skimp on Travel and When to Splurge The Ultimate Pre-Travel Checklist In those posts I… Read More
The Beauty of Unplugging in South Greenland
Note: I wrote this post for Visit Greenland. I’m including an excerpt below. The entire post is at Visit Greenland’s site. My blog post on our Greenland adventure is HERE. Traveling Unplugged I love traveling with my phone, and I use it all the time. If I’m in a taxi,… Read More
How to Save for Travel
This year I’ve written four posts for Capital One‘s Smart Money series on how to save money for travel and tips for traveling with kids. The first three are: The Ultimate Pre-Travel Checklist When to Skimp on Travel and When to Splurge Looking at Travel as an Investment I’ve really… Read More
Planning Family Travel Based On DNA
Thank you to AncestryDNA for sponsoring this post. DNA Years ago, before I even started my website, I ordered five AncestryDNA tests for the five of us and shipped off our saliva. Six weeks or so later I received our results. We’ve been having fun with the results ever since!… Read More
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