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This was one of the most difficult journeys I’ve ever taken, and it started before we left the ground. A delayed flight, a slammed gate in Chicago, a missed connection to Munich, and five days living out of an airline toiletry kit while our bag toured Europe without us...

Skye and I woke up in a different country nearly every morning, from a shipboard Oktoberfest in Germany to medieval Cesky Krumlov, Vienna, Budapest on its Independence Day, and the war-scarred beauty of Croatia and beyond...

Off the boat at last, taking on Bucharest as a team of two: grand parks and playground diplomacy, a haunted-looking slide, and the best ramen in Romania...

A Carnival water fight from our balcony in Panama City, ships climbing the Panama Canal, and a road trip through Costa Rica’s beaches and volcanoes with my nine-year-old...

We’re reunited in Amsterdam! Cody flew over a week ahead of us for work, and Skye and I landed Friday. Five days of canals, a jet-lagged weekend in Bruges, the Anne Frank House rollercoaster, and a mill on Mandø that made me cry...

“Please suggest a peaceful, family resort near Tan Son Nhat International Airport with lush grounds, a swimming pool, and within walking dis...

“Hello!” a man cheerfully called out, whizzing past on one of the many scooters zipping through the streets of My Tho (pronounced Mee-Toe),...

“Mom, I want to go here!” My 7-year-old daughter, Skye, handed me a worn, grainy photograph of the Eiffel Tower lit up against a dark sky. I...

I’m a part-time modern nomad and travel is my therapy. It feeds my soul and keeps me sane. It’s the only way to satisfy a deep itch, and eac...

When I booked a trip to Thailand, I chose a daytime layover of 12 hours in Seoul’s Incheon airport so me, my husband Cody, and 8-year-old da...

“Mom, this is scary!” said Skye as we floated on inner tubes around yet another bend without sight of our campground. The lazy Yampa River s...

While in Thailand last year, I went on a pirate boat for my birthday. My family and I went snorkeling, it was beautiful. We even saw a black...

The Yampa River is a famous river for inner tubing. The popular tubing area is a couple miles long and it’s in Steamboat Springs. Thes...

This is how I taught my cat Clover to walk on a leash. If you follow my advice, and with a little bit of time and love, your cat can walk on...

Here are my top five travel tips for you if you’re on a long road trip or if you’re hopping on a plane for more than a couple of hours.

What should have been an easy six-hour drive from Evergreen, Colorado to Hudson, Wyoming turned into many more with an unplanned overnight i...

Of 63 national parks in the United States, Yellowstone was the seventh most visited in 2022 with just over 3.2 million visitors. It held the...

If you’re new to van life or camping, here is a packing list of items beyond your typical gear that are worth taking up space. These are all...

*Note: no animals were harmed, this is intended to be humorous. Skye begged to get a cat for years, but we had two dogs and told her that wa...

“You are an Arab from Pakistan, but you don’t speak Arabic? You carry the Quran, but can’t read it?” The driver, looking embarrassed and sli...

When I was 35, I broached the subject of children with Cody. We’d been married for 12 years and hadn’t talked about having kids...

When I lived on the eastern side of Puerto Rico, I was part of a conservation group that monitored the beaches for sea turtle nests. At firs...

My daughter Skye loves Izzy’s Koala World on Netflix, a docuseries about a young Australian girl and her family’s clinic that rehabilitates...

I wrote this when I was 19 years old and in an involuntary gap year between high school and college, though they weren’t called gap ye...

October 21, 2008 Gibraltar, United Kingdom Our guidebook for Spain says that the Spanish are still bitter about losing Gibraltar to the UK b...

October 20, 2008 From Tarifa, Spain, we took a 30-minute ferry-ride to Tangier, Morocco. The ferry was modern and looked a lot like the WA S...

October 14 – 22, 2008 Cody and I invited my Danish grandfather, Gregers, to meet us in Spain to celebrate is 87th birthday. We planned...

I wrote this letter for my Danish grandfather’s memoir, My Life and Times, which wasn’t published until after he passed away. I...

Long before I was planning cruises for other people, Cody and I booked one for ourselves - ten nights out of the Port of Miami. Here's what I got wrong, and what I'd tell a friend before their first cruise...