A Family Travel Blog
San Miguel de Allende with Kids San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (SMA) is routinely listed among the top small cities in the world. Given the hype, the recommendations of friends, and our appreciation of Mexican culture and food, it was finally time to book a trip. We headed down in… Read More
Places to Visit in India It occurred to me that I’ve seen a lot of amazing destinations in India, but I haven’t written about them. The primary reason is that most of my trips to India have been solo on on photography expeditions. Only one trip has been with one… Read More
The Best Places to Travel with Kids When Travelocity asked me to select 20 of my favorite family travel photos, I spent a lot of time narrowing down the list based on photos I liked and destinations I recommend. In the end I came up with 20 that I think… Read More
Florence with Kids (or Without Kids) We love Italy. We’ve rented villas in Cortona, in Positano and on Lake Como. We’ve hiked and cycled in the Dolomites. We had a family reunion in Rome, centered around my niece’s baptism at the Vatican. I hiked across Tuscany. We’ve taken a cruise… Read More
Paris on a Budget Recently I wrote a post on where else people can go for the same cost as a Disneyland vacation. When I was making a short list of destinations to include, I immediately thought of Paris. After all, it’s visited by almost 18 million people a year… Read More
The Best Age to Travel the World A question I get a lot is: what is the best age to take my kids to _______. Fill in the blank with anywhere: Hawaii; Europe; Africa; Australia. The answer is to some extent specific to the place, but it’s also specific to… Read More
South America I’ve been to South America a LOT the past few years – for family trips, for one-on-one trips with my kids, for conferences, and with friends. It’s simply easy. From the US there’s virtually no jet lag, and you can get to a lot of South American destinations… Read More
Beating the Sunday Blues At the end of 2018 Enterprise commissioned a study on Sunday depression (aka the Sunday Blues), and the results are eye-opening. Essentially, even though the work week is Monday through Friday, and people only have two days for the weekend, they spend part of that weekend… Read More
A Year in the Life of a Travel Writer The world is small, but incredibly diverse. There’s always something amazing going on somewhere. So living less than two hours from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is a little dangerous for me. I’m always tempted to head off with at least… Read More
The Maldives with Kids – Part Two My son and I LOVED Six Senses Laamu in the Maldives last year. In my blog post I called it our favorite resort in the world. But it was only the two of us – my wife and daughters missed out. So when… Read More
