A Family Travel Resource
Disneyland Prices Disney just released its 2019 ticket prices, and they’re going up. Way up. Our kids have never been obsessed with Disney, but we’ve never been anti-Disney either. We’ve been to Hong Kong Disneyland once, Disney World twice, and Disneyland maybe ten times (we were annual pass holders for… Read More
Family Travel Ideas for 2019 January is my favorite month! I love looking at the year ahead and sketching out travel. How are school breaks timed? What’s on my wish list? Where do the kids want to go? I’m still figuring out our 2019. Assuming that you’re doing the same,… Read More
A Year in the Life of a Travel Writer The world is small, but incredibly diverse. There’s always something amazing going on somewhere. So living less than two hours from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is a little dangerous for me. I’m always tempted to head off with at least… Read More
Tips for Jet Lag I get asked about jet lag all the time but I’ve never written about it. I’ve always thought of it as a necessary evil. When flying across multiple time zones, it simply takes your sleep patterns a while to adjust. This year (2018) I’ve flown 200,000+… Read More
Thank you to Capital One for sponsoring this post. Frequent Flyer Miles My relationship with frequent flyer miles, or points, changed forever around 6pm on February 16, 1999. Up until then, I hadn’t paid much attention to my airline-based mileage accounts. I flew internationally once or twice a year, and… Read More
Thank you to Capital One for sponsoring this post. Introduction I’ve written a lot the past year on how important frequent flyer miles are in allowing us to travel as much as we do. When people contact me asking about how they can afford to travel, my first question is… Read More
Thank you to Adero for sponsoring this post. I’ve done packing posts before on the little things that we travel with to make our vacations more stress-free, but I’ve never written about what I travel with in my carry-on. These are the important things; what I would never put under… Read More
Capital One Smart Money I’ve loved writing for Capital One‘s Smart Money series this year. This has included: Looking at Travel as an Investment How to Save for Travel (on Capital One’s blog) When to Skimp on Travel and When to Splurge The Ultimate Pre-Travel Checklist In those posts I… Read More
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
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
