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
A Celebrity Edge Review When I received an invitation for a preview sailing of the Celebrity Edge, I wasn’t initially excited. Our last cruise with kids with Disney had been decidedly mediocre and we didn’t have another cruise in our travel plans. But I was also intrigued. The Celebrity Edge… 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
11 Amazing Big City Hotels
The Best Big City Hotels This month Travelocity asked me to write about my favorite big city hotels, as a complement to my post on amazing destination hotels. I loved doing this post and thinking through everywhere we’ve stayed in the world’s largest cities, and which hotels really impressed us… 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
Adventure in Tuscany: Hiking from Torrenieri to Montalcino
Adventure in Tuscany Florence is my favorite city in the world, and I’ve visited dozens of times over the years. But the past few years I’ve been branching out to explore Tuscany’s adventurous side. I’ve cycled. I’ve rented a Vespa and driven around the countryside. And last month I hiked… 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
Five Tips for Taking Your Kids on an African Safari
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