A Family Travel Blog
The Best Cities in the World During the first pandemic lockdown, I asked my wife and kids to rate every country that we had traveled to. I added in my votes and ranked them, and the result was my post on the The Best Countries to Visit. Then, as more… Read More
SW USA – The Best Road Trip Destinations This year, between June and October, we road tripped from California to Colorado four times and from Colorado to California five times. I spent over 200 hours in the car – with some combination of zero, one or two kids – and… Read More
This post is sponsored by Ecolab. Road Trip Tips The past few months we’ve driven over 12,000 miles and spent more than 200 hours in the car, road tripping between California and Colorado. We’ve never been a road trip family before, but with virtually no international travel options this year, and… Read More
This post is sponsored by Ecolab. How to Choose a Hotel I get a lot of questions about why we choose the hotels we do, and this year, as we’ve been road tripping, I’ve received a lot of emails and DMs asking about which hotels have done a good job implementing… Read More
Summer Road Trips In June I drove from California to Colorado and back with two of my kids and documented the road trip, including the COVID-specific elements, in this post. And then in July I drove half the route again, from Colorado to California, with my oldest daughter. And we… Read More
A Covid 19 USA Road Trip Like most of the world, we locked down for almost three months due to COVID-19. And we cancelled a lot of travel plans in the process, including trips to Italy, Turkey, Germany and Greece. With summer here, though, it was time to get out… 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
2023 Update I’ve received a lot of questions about the company that planned our Morocco trip, Plan-It Morocco. Their website now looks like it’s members-only. I’ve reached out to them for an update. At any rate, Morocco was amazing, and I highly recommend booking a trip – whether or not… 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
Doha, Qatar with Kids Last year I flew to Doha with Qatar Airways and did absolutely as much as possible in Doha and out in the desert over three days. It was a great trip and I was impressed with Qatar and its people, but I wished that I had… Read More
