A Family Travel Blog
Family Travel In case you’re new to my blog, I travel a lot! In just the past four months I’ve traveled with my wife and kids all around Turkey and Greece, I’ve visited South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Iceland and the Faroe Islands with my 11-year-old son,… Read More
Sweden I’ve never spent much time in Sweden. Blame my Norwegian roots. The Swedes and Norwegians traditionally haven’t gotten along, and as I’m 33% Norwegian and only 4% Swedish, the Norwegian side won out. I’ve backpacked around Norway. I studied two summers at the University of Oslo. I’ve spent holidays… Read More
Coronado Island Having traveled to 12 countries this summer, we were tired of airports and airplanes. But we had a week left before school starts. A perfect time for a road trip south to Coronado Island! Our plan: play and relax without crowds and without lines. We drove right past… Read More
Manitoba with Kids We’ve traveled with our oldest two kids to Canada several times, but my nine-year-old daughter had never been – a major oversight given how easy it is to visit Canada from California. It was time to change that! And given how much she likes animals and animal… Read More
Soneva Kiri – Soneva Private Reserve Update 2025 Per my post below, we loved our stay at Soneva Kiri in 2019. The resort may now be out of business. There was a fire at the resort in 2022 and a plane carrying guests to the resort crashed in 2024, killing… Read More
The Faroe Islands In choosing his annual destinations for one-on-one trips with me, my 11-year-old son has always gravitated towards islands. See my posts on Easter Island, Palawan, the Maldives, Seychelles and Greenland! So it wasn’t a surprise when he selected the Faroe Islands this year. Planning our Faroe Islands… Read More
Bodrum Family Travel Following eight very active days in Istanbul and Cappadocia, we wanted to relax. So we traveled to Bodrum, in southwest Turkey, where Turks go in the summer to…relax! We flew in from Nevsehir (Cappadocia), via Istanbul. It was supposed to be roughly an hour-long flight from Nevsehir… Read More
Summer Travel In an ideal world we would only travel to destinations during the shoulder seasons, when the weather is perfect and the crowds have thinned. Unfortunately we’re restricted to school breaks, which means that not only do we need to venture places when they’re crowded, we also see a… Read More
Istanbul with Kids I had never been to Istanbul before – one of the major holes in my travel history. By any measure it’s one of the world’s great cities, but I didn’t get there during my earlier travels, and my wife was a little hesitant to take our kids.… Read More
A Three-Day Getaway to Salt Lake City I had never been to Salt Lake City before. I’ve driven through Utah well over a dozen times between Colorado and California – I grew up in Colorado and I live in California and we make frequent visits to Utah’s National Parks –… Read More
