Note: I wrote this post for Visit Greenland. I’m including an excerpt below. The entire post is at Visit Greenland’s site. My blog post on our Greenland adventure is HERE. Traveling Unplugged I love traveling with my phone, and I use it all the time. If I’m in a taxi,… Read More
How to Save for Travel
This year I’ve written four posts for Capital One‘s Smart Money series on how to save money for travel and tips for traveling with kids. The first three are: The Ultimate Pre-Travel Checklist When to Skimp on Travel and When to Splurge Looking at Travel as an Investment I’ve really… Read More
Planning Family Travel Based On DNA
Thank you to AncestryDNA for sponsoring this post. DNA Years ago, before I even started my website, I ordered five AncestryDNA tests for the five of us and shipped off our saliva. Six weeks or so later I received our results. We’ve been having fun with the results ever since!… Read More
How to Plan an Around the World Trip
A Trip Around the World with Kids Two years ago I took a trip around the world in two weeks with my 10-year-old daughter, and this year I did the same with my 10-year-old son – although he and I stretched the trip to 18 days. In both of these… Read More
The Importance of Learning Foreign Languages
The Right Way to Travel I’ve thought a lot about the right way to travel, and have essentially come to the conclusion that the right way to travel is however you want to travel. While we like to travel deeper, explore cultures and culinary scenes, and search out lesser-known destinations… Read More
Around the World (Again) with a 10-Year-Old!
Around the World Two years ago I went around the world with my 10-year-old daughter in two weeks. It was supposed to be a crazy one-time adventure – seven cities, six countries, four continents to max out summer vacation and visit a bunch of her favorite places. Fast forward to… Read More
When to Skimp on Travel and When to Splurge
Thank you to Capital One for sponsoring this post – the second in my series of Smart Money posts. The first, with my Pre-Travel Checklist, is here. Getting Past My Backpacker Mentality I studied abroad three semesters in college, in Italy and Germany, and traveled around Europe as inexpensively as… Read More
Organizing an Extended Family/Group Trip with Relatives and Friends
Thank you to Capital One for sponsoring this post. Extended Family Vacations Summer vacations are a great time to meet up with family and friends who you don’t see often. Not only do you get to take time off work and relax, but you’re doing it with some of your… Read More
Letting Your Kids Plan Your Travel
Thank you to Capital One for sponsoring this post. Family Travel Planning I have a tradition with my kids that goes back eight years: starting at the age of four, each of my kids gets to choose any destination in the world every year for a one-on-one trip with me.… Read More
The Ultimate Pre-Travel Checklist
Your Pre-Travel Checklist Thank you to Capital One for sponsoring this post. If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I travel a lot. On average I’m flying somewhere every two weeks – mostly with my kids. That’s a lot of trips to coordinate, and a lot of details… Read More
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