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
A Smart Garage: the Coolest Thing You Didn’t Know You Needed
A Smart Garage The first time I heard about Wi-Fi, I remember thinking: “I guess it would be nice to be able to send my document wirelessly to a printer in another room.” That was my entire vision of how I thought Wi-Fi would be utilized in the future. And… Read More
A Smart Garage in Half an Hour – Installing the Chamberlain Smart Garage Hub
A Smart Garage We are slowly turning our house into a smart home. Not because we need to be on the leading edge of technology. It’s because we travel. Our newest smart home addition: the Chamberlain Group (CGI) mQ Smart Garage Hub and myQ smartphone app. In future posts I’ll expand on… Read More
Packing Tips for Overseas Family Travel
Family Travel In case you’re new to my blog, I travel a lot! In just the past four months I’ve traveled with my wife and kids all around Turkey and Greece, I’ve visited South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Iceland and the Faroe Islands with my 11-year-old son,… Read More
5 Simple Ways to Be a Better Tourist
Traveling Deeper We travel in every way imaginable. Sometimes we’ll rent a villa for a month or spend three weeks on a Greek Island. Other trips we’ll fly around the world in two weeks, visiting six countries, or we’ll fly somewhere amazing just for a night (in November my daughter… Read More
How to Entertain Your Kids on Really Hot Days
Summer Travel In an ideal world we would only travel to destinations during the shoulder seasons, when the weather is perfect and the crowds have thinned. Unfortunately we’re restricted to school breaks, which means that not only do we need to venture places when they’re crowded, we also see a… Read More
20 Amazing Photos to Inspire You to Take Your Kids Everywhere
The Best Places to Travel with Kids When Travelocity asked me to select 20 of my favorite family travel photos, I spent a lot of time narrowing down the list based on photos I liked and destinations I recommend. In the end I came up with 20 that I think… Read More
How I Flew 220,000 Miles Last Year (without really trying)
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
What’s Always in My Carry-On (and How I Never Leave Anything Behind)
Note: this post was sponsored by Adero, but they seem to have gone out of business. The post is still relevant though, and there are now a lot of companies, including Apple, that make small tracking devices that can keep you from losing things. Packing I’ve done packing posts before… Read More
Ten Ways to Travel for Less
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
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