walking on travels

Recently I headed up into the great white north (Canada) for a little ski adventure with my kids at Silver Star Resort in British Columbia. Dek was going to try out ski school, and I had the opportunity to have a private snowboarding lesson, and even try out some Nordic skiing, which I am now [...]

Recently the New York Times published a spring break article highlighting spring break destinations recommended by three different travel agencies. One tackles Budget travel (about $4500), but the other two took on moderate ($9000+) and splurge (sky’s the limit) budgets on a trip. I was horrified, along with several other traveling families, to find what [...]

I am a last-minute packer. I admit it. I procrastinate chatting online, playing with my kids, and anything else I can possibly find to keep myself busy so that I end up packing at the eleventh hour. I’m throwing notes up on the front door at midnight so we can grab random items as we run [...]

This year has been filled with ups and downs, big changes and small, long journeys and short jaunts; basically it has been one heck of a year. Probably most significant is that we grew from a traveling family of three to a rambling clan of four when baby Ty joined the ranks in late April, [...]

We do a lot of dreaming in this family, none more so than when a new year is dawning and 12 months of possibilities are before us. Sometimes I know what lies ahead. Other years I start with a fresh canvas (or calendar in our case) and start filling in the dates with various plans. [...]

Special thanks to Claudia at TheTravellingMom.ca for sharing her 5 favorite things to do in Vancouver, BC this holiday season.  The holidays have arrived! There are so many great family-friendly Christmas events around Vancouver, I think it’s impossible to get to them all without exhausting oneself. Many of our favorite events include enjoying the great [...]

Could you go one day without water? How about three? What about 5? No? Why not? Water. It is part of every human’s essential make up. It covers our planet. It feeds the earth. It is the natural gift that should just keep giving. And yet some go without. Some die of dehydration. Others have [...]

Books may be going digital, but I still love the smell of ink on paper. There is something so tangible and permanent about a printed book. Anytime I start planning a trip I grab at least one guidebook to feed the fervor that starts to build as plane tickets are bought, accommodations are narrowed down [...]

There are a lot of people traveling out there; it’s really not just me wandering the globe with my family. I thought it was time to introduce you to a few of my traveling friends. You can learn about their journey on their blog, but I wanted to dig in a little deeper to find [...]