A Family Travel Blog
Such a fun travel year! Starting in Colorado and ending in Thailand, I flew 178,790 miles to 20 countries on 4 continents. I don’t think I had flown more than 150,000 miles in a year before? Five countries were solo – India and Japan for photo expeditions, Germany and Spain for travel conferences… Read More
Ten Amazing Things to Do with Kids Around the World My oldest daughter just turned ten. In those ten years, we’ve taken her and our other two kids (5 and 8) to 32 countries on six continents and have done a lot of amazing things. So I asked the kids to vote for their… Read More
New York City with Kids: Wonder Awaits If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’m passionate about finding the kid-friendliest hotels to recommend. There are a lot of things I look for when I stay in hotels, but really it comes down to how proactive has… Read More
My travels this year have taken me to 19 countries – the US, Belize, India, Mexico, Germany, Indonesia, Australia, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Croatia, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Thailand, Japan and Bermuda – and I’ll add China at the end of December. I’ve flown over 160,000 miles, mainly on… Read More
San Diego with Kids My five-year-old hates being the third child, and she lets us know frequently that she hates it. Which is fair. After all, her older brother and sister get to do everything first, and she usually doesn’t get the deciding vote in family decisions. After a challenging summer traveling… Read More
Four Seasons Orlando – a Review I do very few posts that are pure hotel reviews – TripAdvisor is great if you’re just looking for reviews. But sometimes a hotel is the destination (Four Seasons Bora Bora), or a hotel stands out because of what they do wrong from a kid perspective (the Mauna… Read More
Aspen with Kids I grew up in Colorado and have great memories of road trips around the state when I was a kid – usually to the mountains, the sand dunes or the national parks. So now that my kids are 5, 7 and 9, I want to take them around the… Read More
Travel Deeper One of the questions I get asked a lot is: am I going to travel to every country? It’s an easy answer for me: No. I don’t want to travel to every country just to get a stamp in my passport and check it off a list. And really,… Read More
Belize with a 4-Year-Old Every year I let each of my kids, starting at the age of four, choose any destination in the world for a one-on-one trip with me. How does a four-year-old choose a destination, you might be wondering? Alabama When my youngest daughter turned four, I asked… Read More
For my daughter’s second-grade state report, she chose South Carolina. She enjoyed learning about the state so much that she decided we should go there for one of our family vacations. I loved the idea of heading to Charleston with kids and timing it over spring break worked out perfectly.… Read More
