The Best Big City Hotels This month Travelocity asked me to write about my favorite big city hotels, as a complement to my post on amazing destination hotels. I loved doing this post and thinking through everywhere we’ve stayed in the world’s largest cities, and which hotels really impressed us… Read More
The Amazon Rainforest with Kids: A Magical (Unplugged) Expedition
Magic Our second day in Brazil I looked around at our lunch setting – a floating restaurant on the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon River, where fish was being set out for us as our kids were swimming and kayaking, and remarked to one of the other trip… Read More
Mashpi Lodge: An Extraordinary Adventure in Ecuador’s Cloud Forest
National Geographic Unique Lodges of the World There are a handful of hotels around the world that have earned the distinction of being called National Geographic Unique Lodges of the World. It would be easy to think that it’s is all about branding, except that three of our absolute coolest… Read More
The Galapagos with Kids: A Perfect Trip
The Galapagos When we have a one-week school break, my mentality is always to plan the coolest trip possible that’s not more than a few time zones away. My kids love animals, so Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands were an easy choice this year – it’s a unique destination, it’s warm in… Read More
Best of 2017: Favorite Things Around the World
It was another amazing year of travel! I didn’t quite match my 2016 statistics, flying 230,511 miles, or roughly 25,000 fewer than last year, but I couldn’t have fit another trip in if I tried! My 22 countries included (in order): US, UK, Oman, UAE, Costa Rica, Israel, Chile, Bermuda,… Read More
A Multi-Sport Adventure in Argentinian Patagonia
Multi-Sport Patagonia Every once in a while I travel without the kids. When I do, I try to add in activities that I wouldn’t really be able to do if the kids were there. This was the case last year when I headed to Florence with a friend for a… Read More
A Perfect One-Day Photography Expedition from Salta, Argentina
Photography in Salta Every year I go on photography expeditions around the world, and every year I attend a dozen travel conferences and events around the world. But I rarely try to combine the two – most conferences simply don’t have any photographic opportunities. Luckily there are exceptions. Last month… Read More
Chile’s Atacama Desert with Kids
Spring Break in Chile Part Two – the Atacama Desert with Kids We traveled to Chile for spring break largely because of Patagonia – one of the most beautiful destinations anywhere. But we quickly determined that Patagonia, and Torres del Paine National Park specifically, wouldn’t hold more than a few days’ worth of… Read More
Spring Break in Patagonia
Spring Break: Patagonia with Kids I get more emails asking for spring break suggestions than for anything else. And the emails are remarkably similar – people wanting ideas other than Hawaii and Mexico that are warm and Zika-free and, ideally, no more than a few time zones away. Two-way jet lag for… Read More
Ten Amazing Things to Do with Kids Around the World
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