Are you California dreaming, jonesing for a trip down Route 66, or after a little adventure along the Appalachian Trail? If so, we’ve got the summer road trips your family needs to make fantastic memories. Here are some of our favorite ways to see the country while keeping kids entertained and engaged.

Have you had it up to here with cabin fever? So, have we! Fortunately, we’re here to tell you there’s a thrilling future in store for family travelers. And we couldn’t be more excited about what this will mean for your adventuring crew. Whether you’re interested in exploring RV travel, reuniting with grandparents for a multigen vacation, or diving into bucket-list plans, we’ve got the family travel trend for you. Check out these amazing destinations and ideas.

Is your family ready to discover domestic travel? If so, you’ll savor the convenience and ease of stateside exploration. And you won’t have to wrangle family passports, stand for hours in customs lines, or deal with language barriers. Yet, you’ll gain access to a broad selection of experiences in climates ranging from arctic to tropical. Which family vacations are you dreaming about? From the wilds of Alaska to the forests of Pennsylvania, the paradisiacal beaches of Hawaii to California’s picturesque Carmel Valley, check out these amazing destinations!

Have you ever wondered which family travel destinations are best suited to your children based on their ages? While there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to travel with kids of various ages, there are definitely places and experiences better suited to some ages than others. Preteens or tweens have increased physical […]

Hiking does not require access to forest trails or mountaintops, nature preserves or valley fields. These are all great places for a trot through nature, but cities can offer some of the many same advantages when hiking with the kids. Commune with nature. The right route through a city can offer beautiful neighborhood gardens, grassy parks […]

Although my husband and I love to explore other cultures with our kids, we don’t have the time, the energy or the finances to jet off every weekend. Luckily, we live in San Francisco where several ethnic neighborhoods offer the perfect fix for our cultural wanderlust. On a recent weekend we decided to “travel” to […]

Welcome back to San Francisco! I hope you came dressed in layers and are ready to take to the hills. I suggest starting where we left off.  North Beach – San Francisco’s Italian neighborhood and home to crooked Lombard Street. If you are staying at one of the hotels I mentioned in A Weekend with […]

Welcome to San Francisco. You can call it the City or San Francisco or occasionally SF but please, please, whatever you do, don’t call it San Fran or Frisco or any other nickname that comes to mind. You’ll peg yourselves as tourists immediately (if you haven’t already done so by showing up in the city […]