Three Generations in Israel – Part 1
Three Generations Abroad – Part 1 As soon as I agree to send my daughter on her school trip to Israel, I know that this is an opportunity for a unique experience for my family. My mother and I decide to join my daughter and her class in Israel. From the first steps in Israel, [...]
Los Angeles: The Mystic Fool Needs Bloodline Healing
Book Review: The Mystic Fool By Andy Hill Ian, the main character, is the quintessential twenty-something adrift in Asia consuming drugs, drink and tattoos. Slowly his spiritual side is shown starting with his knowledge of being in “Saturn Return when Saturn come back to the same place relative to Earth when you were born roughly the ages [...]
Italy: The Amalfi Coast
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Rona Amichai from The United Kingdom. Thanks for your entry Rona! Seventy steps. Up, up, up, into the Italian rock, Eighty six years on seventy steps, slowly, one at a time. Fifty four and sixty two years to share the load, while [...]
A Place I Love: Los Angeles
This is an entry in the We Said Go Travel Writing Contest written by Sofie Couwenbergh from Belgium. Thanks for your entry Sofie! My parents, brother and I spent a day in Los Angeles on a two-week trip along the west coast, but that’s not the reason I wanted to go back there because honestly, [...]
Is Travel With Kids “Worth it?”
“I’ve always said I didn’t want kids because I wanted to travel and adventure… but meeting you guys has blown that argument out of the water…” I laughed over my wine glass as our backpacker guest of the evening proceeded to ask a million questions about “How we do it” with four kids, and expressed [...]
Skiing In Austria with the Family
I didn’t really know that much about skiing in Austria before we went. I knew that Austria regularly produces some of the best ski racers in world, that they hosted the winter Olympics sometime in my youth, and that the Alps have some of the best skiing anywhere. I was going as part of a [...]
Where is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Thank you to Dave’s Travel Corner for posting my article, “Where is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?: Here is the beginning of the article: Disoriented is a term that means being lost or unclear about where you are. It originated from when the East or the Orient was considered the center of the world. If [...]
Happy Father’s Day
Rachel Dotson wrote this article, Work Lessons From Dad, in honor of Father’s Day, and she asked people from all walks of life to tell her the #1 lesson Dad taught them about work. The responses are as varied as they are inspiring and insightful. Here is mine: “My dad taught me so much by [...]
Beach Bliss at Playa Langosta, Costa Rica
Thank you to Micki for her post about her family journey to the beaches of Costa Rica. We hope she will share more of her adventures with us on our site. Costa Rica is everything that the tourist brochures claim: lush, steeped in adventure, and chock full of amazing wildlife. But we’re beach bums. All [...]
LegoLand: A One Day Vacation – Worth Every Minute
Lori Tessel shares how a vacation does not have to be to a destination far away to be memorable and important. Traveling with your family and creating precious memories is what children will remember. Inspire your child, inspire yourself, go somewhere that feeds your passions! This weekend, my husband and I took our kids [...]
