Forty-five minutes. That is how long our tour guide gave us to stand in the middle of the most beautiful Christmas market square I had ever seen. I had a glass of hot gluhwein warming one hand and my father in law’s arm resting on the other. Despite what the guide thought was a long […]

You are standing at a register in a country you have dreamed about for years, holding out a fistful of unfamiliar bills like a child playing a game she never learned the rules to. You are hoping the cashier picks the right ones instead of you guessing wrong in front of a line of people […]

You will not see both islands the way you picture them in your head, and the sooner you accept that, the sooner this trip stops feeling impossible. North Island vs South Island is the question every family asks me before they ask anything else about New Zealand. It’s usually somewhere around the third browser tab, […]

The sunken cities you can visit with your family are some of the most extraordinary places on earth. And most parents have no idea they even exist. While other families are retracing the same theme park loops for the third summer in a row, a small number of extraordinarily curious families are slipping beneath the […]

There is a moment on a northern lights Alaska family vacation when your child grabs your hand in the dark, looks up at a sky on fire with green and violet light, and you realize this is the memory they will carry for the rest of their life. No screen. No theme park. No carefully […]

The vacation you spent six months planning can unravel in sixty seconds if the wrong person spots you first. Knowing how to avoid travel scams on a family vacation is not optional anymore. It is part of the planning process itself. And it is the conversation that no one seems to be having loudly enough. […]

An Oahu multigenerational vacation is one of the most rewarding travel experiences a family can share. I have watched it transform clients of mine from busy, distracted people who barely see each other at home into a family that is laughing, exploring, and fully present with one another for the first time in years. If […]

A Northern Lights vacation is one of those rare experiences that does not just live in your camera roll. It lives in your bones. I have talked with clients who could not find the words to describe what they witnessed beneath the Arctic sky. They were watching curtains of green and violet light ripple across […]

The best family vacation in California begins the moment your plane descends through the clouds, and the Pacific coastline stretches out beneath you like a postcard that never ends. I still remember the first time I planned a California trip for a family. The mom, a busy executive who had been running on coffee and […]

Seeing the northern lights in Alaska has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember. I still recall the moment it happened for me. I was standing in the wilderness outside of Fairbanks, wrapped in layers so thick I could barely move, a cup of something hot cradled in my gloved […]