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
Great Holiday Gifts for Travelers
My Holiday Gift Guide I had fun creating a gift guide last year, so here’s my 2018 version! As always I have very little financial incentive to recommend anything here. I’ll note when something is an affiliate link. No one has paid to be included here. And yes, there are a… Read More
90km of Fun through Tuscany: Hiking the Via Francigena
The Via Francigena If you haven’t heard of the Via Francigena, you’re not alone. The pilgrimage path dates to the 9th century and connects the Canterbury Cathedral in England and the Vatican in Rome, but pilgrimages have been declining since the Middle Ages, and the path is now overshadowed by… Read More
How to Plan an Around the World Trip
A Trip Around the World with Kids Two years ago I took a trip around the world in two weeks with my 10-year-old daughter, and this year I did the same with my 10-year-old son – although he and I stretched the trip to 18 days. In both of these… Read More
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