The family trip to Yosemite National Park has become a bit of an annual tradition around these parts, and I’m in the process of lining up specifics for this year’s adventure. This year, however, there’ll be some major changes: Powerwoman and Baby G are heading to Denver, so instead L, R, and I are taking […]
Family travel is one of the most important parts of our lives over here. Another major priority: Education. This is one of the main reasons why Powerwoman became a college professor. It’s why she plans special science programs every year for L’s charter school. And it’s why I’m on the board of directors of the […]
I’m taking the family travel show on the road this coming weekend, representing the Family Travel Association on a panel at the Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show. My fellow panelists: Jen Miner from The Vacation Gals, Colleen Kelly from Family Travel with Colleen Kelly, and Margalit Sturm Francus, from Autistic Globetrotting (you can read […]
Earlier this month I shared some news about Family Travel Association (FTA) involvement in advocating for legislation to require airlines to keep families together on commercial planes. Well, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has marked up the FAA Reauthorization Bill. And we have both good news and bad news to share. The good news: […]
When you live in Wine Country (that’s where we live), you do what you have to do for a nice day on the town. Sometimes, that means taking the kids when we go wine-tasting. People think I’m crazy when I tell them Powerwoman and I do this on a regular basis. The comments I get […]
The one winter sport everyone in our pod loves: Sledding. We’ve been in Lake Tahoe for three days at this point, and we’ve managed to hit the sledding hills every day. Our sledfest began yesterday in the backyard of the house we’re renting near Carnelian Bay. I built L and R a course and they […]
The last eight hours of our Lake Tahoe sojourn comprised an exercise in testing the limits of the big girls’ comfort zones. There were tears. There were laughs. And everybody learned a bit along the way. The scenes played out at Northstar California, a great ski resort outside of Truckee in the northern part of […]
It’s easy on family trips to get bogged down in the stuff that’s right in front of you: Screaming toddlers, bickering tweens, Snapchatting teenagers. Sometimes, it’s just as important to look up. Powerwoman and I were reminded of this today during a snowball fight with the L and R in the backyard of our vacation […]
You have to respect a company that admits past mistakes. That’s why I’m loving United Airlines today. The carrier announced that on Feb. 15, it will resume policies that allow families traveling with young children to board flights early. The move reinstates a policy that the airline had embraced for decades but curtailed back in […]
Every now and again, our elected officials actually do something I can get behind. Case in point: the FAA Reauthorization Bill, which includes a push to make into law new rules that would require airlines to allow families to guarantee seats together on planes. In other words, the legislation aims to make traveling with children […]