We spent 10 days exploring the Turks and Caicos Islands with our kids (TCI) in August 2021, and we had a fabulous time! The TCI is a British overseas territory and it includes two island groups: The Turks Islands and the Caicos Islands. There are a total of eight islands, of which 6 are inhabited. […]
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Avenue of the Giants and Humboldt Redwoods

Visiting the Avenue of the Giants and Humboldt Redwoods State Park has been on our bucket list for a long time. Last year we booked a campsite at the park for Thanksgiving, but as the temps dove down to nearly freezing and the forecast showed nothing by rain, we begrudgingly decided to cancel our trip. […]
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Sicily In Ten Images

Back in 2017 we spent 10 days exploring part of the Italian island of Sicily with our two young kids. We found Sicily to be even more charming and kid-friendly than the other Italian regions we had visited! I never wrote a post about our time in Sicily, so I decided to put together a […]
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Free Things To Do In Santa Barbara With Kids

Back in 2010, Joe landed a clerkship with a federal judge in Santa Barbara so, upon completing our graduate degrees, we packed our car and drove to California. When we arrived in Santa Barbara we immediately fell in love with its mountains and beaches. What we didn’t fall in love with was the crazy cost […]
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Cairo And Giza In Ten Images

Cairo and Giza are really great places to travel to and to photograph. There are many opportunities to capture unique moments. For me, traveling with two young kids, it was a bit more challenging as there was also a lot happening and you really need to keep a close eye on your kids at all […]
How To Visit The Great Pyramids Of Giza With Kids

When planning our trip to Egypt, we knew we wanted to spend time in Giza right by the pyramids. We wanted to be able to get there first thing in the morning with the kids still fresh. Cairo is on the eastern side of the Nile and Giza is on the western side. People generally […]
Things To See And Do In Cairo With Kids

Cairo is a big city, with a metropolitan population of around 20 million people. Many people zip through on tours, stopping at the pyramids of Giza and the Egyptian Museum and then moving on. We opted to spend four days exploring the city on our own sans tours or tour guides. It was a really interesting city, […]
Things To Do in Vis, Croatia With Kids

In April 2019 we spent five days exploring the island of Vis, Croatia with our two kids. This tiny island has an area of about 90 square kilometers and a population of about 3500 people. Vis is about a third of the way to Italy on the Adriatic Sea. Of the inhabited Croatian islands, it’s […]
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Reflections: Benefits Of Traveling With Kids

What are the benefits of traveling with kids? What will our kids get out of traveling the world with us? Will they even remember any of it? These are questions we frequently get when we tell people we travel with our kids. At the end of 2019, we sat down and wrote this post reflecting […]
Settling Into Malta With The Kids

We are finally in Malta! Since arriving in Malta we’ve had to figure out all the logistics that come with being in a new place. The first few days were tiring but now we feel settled in and are very happy that we chose to be here for two full months! For this post, we […]