A Family Travel Blog
Spring Break Ideas – Introduction I receive a lot of emails asking for ideas for family spring break trips. Some emails give me enough to work with, but many don’t. For those shorter emails, I respond with several questions to help them in narrowing down destination options: Where do you… Read More
Cool Countries to Visit Google sent me a report showing that people have been finding this website by searching for “coolest countries to visit” and “cool countries to visit” which is funny, because I’ve never before written about the coolest countries to visit. So here you go – a post… Read More
A Month by Month Guide to the Best Vacations for Kids The most frequent request I get is for a list of suggested destinations by month (i.e. the best vacations for kids by month). I could easily do posts for Where to Travel in January, Where to Travel in February,… Read More
Family Adventure Vacations We’re always heading off on adventures around the world. Just the way we travel is an adventure – around-the-world trips with the kids, taking float planes to remote islands, walking across Tuscany – but we’re also active, hiking, kayaking, climbing and cycling wherever we can. Last year… Read More
Rating Every Country We’ve Traveled To During the COVID-19 shutdown last year we were at home and looking for ways to stay entertained, so I asked my wife and kids to rate every country they’ve been to from 1 to 10. I added in my votes and ranked every country… Read More
Single Parent Travel My oldest daughter just turned 14, which means that I’ve been taking one-on-one trips with my kids for 10 years. The short version of how the tradition started: my daughter, at 3, wanted to go to Antarctica. I told her that we could go when she was… Read More
Family Travel Inspiration I created my family travel blog to inspire people to take their kids everywhere. It’s why I post to social media as well. It’s an amazing world. The more places you take your kids, and the more cultures they see in person, the more it will change… 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
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
