A Family Travel Blog
This post is sponsored by Ecolab. How to Choose a Hotel I get a lot of questions about why we choose the hotels we do, and this year, as we’ve been road tripping, I’ve received a lot of emails and DMs asking about which hotels have done a good job implementing… Read More
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
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
Summer Road Trips In June I drove from California to Colorado and back with two of my kids and documented the road trip, including the COVID-specific elements, in this post. And then in July I drove half the route again, from Colorado to California, with my oldest daughter. And we… Read More
Rating Every Country We’ve Traveled To During the COVID-19 shutdown 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 that had… Read More
Things to Do in Tokyo, Japan I’ve traveled to Tokyo a lot over the years, including two trips with my youngest daughter (her annual trips at 7 and 8) and an AFAR Experience where we went below the surface. It’s gone from being a city that intimidated me to one… Read More
Note: I wrote this post for DK.com for when people start planning travel again. If you have things you would add, based on how you plan a vacation, please comment below! Ten Things to Think About When Planning Your Next Vacation We’ve taken our kids to 62 countries so far,… Read More
Airport to Hotel Transportation A reader recommended that I write a post with options for traveling from the airport to a hotel. So here you go! Obviously a post like this can’t be specific, but we’ve flown into hundreds of airports and had to get to our hotel every time,… Read More
Shopping Online while Traveling We travel…a lot! And we tend to do a lot of online shopping while we travel. I touched on this in my last post – specifically that we always find local foods/ingredients overseas but it’s a hassle to bring everything back, so we place online orders. But there… Read More
Best European Cities with Kids We’ve traveled throughout a lot of Europe with kids the past 16 years – 70+ cities in 20+ countries – and I made a short list of our favorite kid-friendly European cities. Then I deleted the largest two, London and Paris, since they’re the top… Read More
