A Family Travel Blog
My Annual Gift Guide I love doing this post every year! As always, this gift guide includes things that we like and use. It’s not based around affiliate links or obligations to brands I’ve promoted or anything else. Enjoy! And if you’ve found amazing things that have made your travels… Read More
Travel with Young Children We’ve been traveling with our kids since they were born. It simply made sense. Both my wife and I grew up traveling, and we studied abroad in college, and we felt like we benefited greatly from having seen the world outside of our home states. It’s… 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 2023 we made 19 visits to nine US National Parks in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California and Colorado. An $80 Annual Pass for the… Read More
Things to Do in Colorado Springs with Kids / Colorado Springs Kids Activities Growing up in Colorado Springs, I don’t remember ever being bored. I lived a block from the Broadmoor Hotel and walked over frequently, reading comic books in the drug store, playing at the playground or grabbing day-old bread from the Tavern kitchen… Read More
Glacier National Park with Kids A few summers ago, in conjunction with Visit Montana, my 7-year-old daughter and I flew to Whitefish, Montana and explored Whitefish and Glacier National Park for four days. It remains one of my favorite trips – it was an easy destination from Los Angeles, the… 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
A Disney Fantasy Cruise in the Western Caribbean When I posted to Instagram that we were booked on a spring break Disney Fantasy Cruise, a lot of people DMed me to ask why. It’s a reasonable question – although we’ve been on a number of cruises, we don’t love cruises,… Read More
Six Senses Yao Noi Our first Six Senses stay was in Oman. I was traveling around the world with my 10-year-old daughter and we included a stop at Six Senses Zighy Bay because you could arrive at the hotel by paragliding in from a nearby mountain. We loved the resort,… Read More
A Second Trip to Antarctica with Kids Nine years ago I took my 8-year-old daughter to Antarctica. It was an amazing trip, and it was the reason I started this website. I wasn’t a travel writer at the time; I simply wanted to tell the world to take their kids… Read More
Holiday Gifts for Travelers – 2022 Another year, another gift guide! In case you’re new here, I’ll start with the important stuff. We don’t buy a lot, since we would rather invest in travel and experiences. This gift guide is my way of highlighting brands I love and cool things… Read More
