A Family Travel Blog
Why Uganda? This trip started with a ticket credit on Qatar Airways that was about to expire. I looked at the airline’s route map and Entebbe, Uganda jumped out at me. Uganda would be a new country for me (my 99th) and I’ve seen a lot of friends posting about… Read More
Naxos Greece Greece is our favorite country, so of course it was our first family destination post-Covid. We visited four islands total this trip, but spent the most time on Naxos. It remains our favorite island. I wrote about our first two trips to Naxos in this post, but now… Read More
The Epic Pass I grew up in Colorado and learned to ski at Vail and Breckenridge. When I moved back to Colorado after college I purchased a Vail Resorts season pass (well before the Epic Pass existed) and skied all the time at Vail, Breckenridge and Keystone. Then I had… Read More
Positano Italy Positano always looks amazing in movies and on tv – beautiful and romantic, a hilly beach destination with stunning views and excellent food. In all of my Italy travels though I had somehow never made it to Positano, or anywhere on the Amalfi Coast. It was time to… Read More
San Luis Valley, Colorado I grew up in Colorado Springs and have been all over Colorado, but I’ve spent very little time in the San Luis Valley. When Visit Colorado reached out wanting to send me back to my home state, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to travel south… Read More
Spring Break For 12 years our kids went to the same school – a combined elementary and middle school in California – and we fully took advantage of their school breaks. Our two oldest kids are now in high school though, and unfortunately they attend a school with a different… Read More
Influencer Marketing I didn’t set out to be an influencer. I love traveling, and documenting our travels, and inspiring other people to take their kids to amazing places. As I built social media followings, however, I started getting partnership offers. I said no (and continue to say no) to most… Read More
Spring Break Ideas – Introduction I receive a lot of emails asking for ideas for family spring break trips. Some emails give me enough to work with, but many don’t. For those shorter emails, I respond with several questions to help them in narrowing down destination options: Before I list… Read More
Travel Health Insurance A confession: we’ve never purchased travel health insurance. We’ve never purchased any sort of travel insurance actually. We’ve always had a medical evacuation policy through MedJet, but that’s not insurance – they’ll simply transfer you to a hospital of your choice if you’re hospitalized in a foreign… Read More
How to Travel Cheap – i.e. How to Make Travel Affordable People ask me all the time how to travel cheap internationally. It’s difficult to answer since everyone has different circumstances. Some people have access to lower-cost airports. Some choose other priorities and wonder why there isn’t money left over… Read More
