A Family Travel Blog
Black Henna It’s fun to be a little reckless on vacation. Three weeks ago my kids were zip-lining through the Costa Rican rain forest, and we were eating fruit directly from roadside stands – no washing, no idea (in some cases) what it was. Water skiing or parasailing – why… Read More
Getting Away from the Crowds When we booked a Disney cruise departing in July from Venice, my immediate thought turned to how to give my young kids (4, 6 and 8) a great introduction to the city. The conventional wisdom is that July is a bad time to visit because… Read More
Flying with Kids We’ve flown probably 500 flights with our three kids – ages 10, 12, and 14. Most have been family trips. Some have been one parent and any combination of 1, 2 or 3 kids. I’m frequently asked for tips on making flying with kids easier. Every family… Read More
Easter Island with Kids Why Did We Travel to Easter Island? Easter Island! It’s one of those places that you see in National Geographic or the occasional Discover Channel show, or as a reference on the Simpsons, that never makes the news but that you grow up sort of knowing… Read More
Panama with Kids Hats. The Panama Canal. Noriega. The third track from Van Halen’s 1984. I didn’t know a lot about Panama. But flying from Los Angeles to Santiago with my 6-year-old son, our best Star Alliance option was to fly Copa Airlines via Panama City. We could have a… Read More
An Open Letter to the Mauna Lani Dear Mauna Lani, We love you. Really, we do. My wife used to visit the hotel every year with her family. Then we got married here ten years ago, and we’ve come back at least once a year since then. Some years we… Read More
A Bora Bora Vacation with Kids! Sometimes when we choose a destination or have a family vacation idea, we go in knowing it will be kid-friendly – e.g. a Disney Cruise. And sometimes we book our tickets, do our homework and hope for the best. A Bora Bora vacation fell into… Read More
A Note from 2020 This post was originally written as a series of personal Facebook posts, long before I started travel writing. We’ve since returned to Florence many times, and I summarized all of our favorite things to do in Florence in this post, and our favorite restaurants in Florence… Read More
Antarctica for Kids When my oldest daughter Evelyn was three and in Pre-K, her class studied penguins. She came home excited and said that she wanted to go on a trip to Antarctica to see penguins in real life. So I did some research and decided that eight was a… Read More
