Travel Photography So you love travel and you love to photograph while you go. But are you always a little bit disappointed at the ability of your photographs to capture the spirit of your destination? Do you want to improve your photography while you’re in amazing destinations? Have you thought… Read More
A $135K Around-the-World Private Jet Trip vs. Booking It Yourself
Private Jet Trips The official tagline of my website is “Take Your Kids Everywhere!” The unofficial continuation of that is “…but never pay more than you have to.” I love finding the coolest experiences in the world and figuring out how to do the same things for less. With three kids, that’s… Read More
Photography Expeditions and Workshops: A Ranking
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
Ethiopia: Ten Amazing Places Not to Miss
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
The Top Places to Visit in Burma / Myanmar
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
2015: A Look Back on a Record Travel Year
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
Japan: Kyoto to Hiroshima, a Ten Day Journey
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
2014: The Best Travel Year Yet
I typically don’t spend a lot of time looking back – I would rather be planning the next adventure than thinking about (or editing photos from) the last one. But I started this blog to provide inspiration on where to go in the world, what to do and where to stay,… Read More
Antarctica with an 8-Year-Old
Preface I’ve just returned from my second trip to Antarctica, this time with my 12-year-old daughter. In my blog post I talk about that trip and compare both trips. So enjoy this post about my original trip, but also click through for the new post. And take your kids to… Read More