A Family Travel Blog
I’ve just returned from a photography expedition in Oman and United Arab Emirates with National Geographic. On the flight home, I started thinking about the ten photography expeditions and workshops that I’ve now done around the world and what made each one successful (or not). To my mind a successful trip needs:… Read More
Take Your Kids Everywhere I joined Instagram two years ago and quickly realized how great it was for not just travel inspiration, but family travel inspiration. I love seeing the adventurous places that people take their kids, and even booked a trip to Indonesia’s Borobudur Temple in August with my… Read More
Note: This post originally appeared at Travelocity.com. My biggest annoyance when I’m traveling: crowds. If I fly halfway around the world to see an amazing site, I want to experience it with as few other people around as possible. This is especially true if I’m with my kids. Long lines and… Read More
Best Instagram Travel Accounts Last year I did a quick blog post on my favorite Instagram accounts and wanted to update it with some of the accounts that I’m now following and really enjoying. This time I put more time into developing this list. I’ve looked through over 800 galleries to see… Read More
I had been to China several times before. I had seen the lights of Shanghai, the pandas in Chengdu and the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi’an, and I had visited the Great Wall three times. Other than a night spent in a rural fishing village, I had never been far from… Read More
“What’s Your Favorite Place in the World?” Almost every time I tell someone I’m a travel writer, I get asked what my favorite destination is. Now that I’ve traveled to 80 countries (Jamaica last week for spring break was number 80), I’ve started giving some thought to my favorite places… Read More
Ethiopia Travel If Ethiopia’s not on your travel list, it should be. It’s a huge country – the largest landlocked country in the world – with unique cultures, a diverse landscape, incredible man-made creations, one of the oldest human skeletons ever discovered, and really good coffee. And there aren’t many tourists,… Read More
Traveling around Burma (Myanmar) on a National Geographic photography expedition, I fell in love with the country. It was one of my most enjoyable photo trips anywhere, with very friendly people, good food, great sites, and not too many other tourists. Here are my favorite sites, both to visit and to photograph:… Read More
I’ve been to roughly 80 countries, but in all of that travel I had only spent one day in Japan – a 14-hour layover in Tokyo over a decade ago. It was a huge gap in my travel experience. With a credit from National Geographic Expeditions from a cancelled trip… Read More
Introduction Almost every day someone on Instagram or Facebook asks me what camera I use. So I am writing up this post! I should start by saying that you can get amazing photos with any camera, including your phone or five-year-old DSLR. But if you want to increase the percentage of… Read More
