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Cave Kayaking with Kids! Santa Cruz Island in Ventura, California
It’s not something I thought could happen so close to the urban sprawl of Los Angeles. https://youtu.be/X‑NbH9OtyvI Yet, here we were, looking through a rainbow of ocean mist as dolphins below escorted our Channel Islands ferry to our cave
Cutting the Line: A How To Guide For Your Fav Theme Park
We’ve all told our kids a thousand times not to cut the line because it’s rude and selfish. But what if there was a way to cut a line that was neither rude nor selfish? Intriguing, right? One of the biggest – and most consistent – …
A Volunteer Vacation Every Family Member Will Love
Guest blog post by Jennifer Spatz, CEO & Founder of Global Family Travels The most memorable family trips are ones that offer experiences beyond just relaxing or spending time together. A vacation that combines a bucket-list adventure …
Walking the Streets of NYC: 2 Tours with Kids & Teens
New York City is a walking city. Now, the idea of a “walking city” may seem strange to anyone from L.A. because we have a reputation of never walking anywhere. Ever. But one of the coolest things about New York is that there are so many amazing …
Extreme Family Vacations: Beekeeping (VIDEO)
This Thanksgiving, we took a turkey break and went in search of bees. Rather, we had heard about a bee tour we could take at the Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa (which, by the way, looks to be a very family friendly resort, we …
Cruising the San Francisco Bay with Teens
San Francisco’s nickname is The City by the Bay, so when I traveled to San Francisco last December with my two teenaged sons, we decided it would be fun to see the city from the bay. “San …
Visiting 3 Presidential Houses with Kids
Visiting the home of our current president in Washington, D.C. is not as simple as showing up and knocking on the door. The advanced planning necessary (which includes contacting a member of Congress in advance and passing a …
Aulani, A Disney Resort and Spa : Seeing the Real Hawaii in Oahu
I was pretty certain, at that special age when everything is mortifying, that attending a luau in Hawaii is a type of embarrassment specifically reserved for tourists. I was 14 and I knew it all. This
A Spooky Adventure in Baltimore: Walking the Poe Trail with Teens
October is the Perfect Time to have A Spooky Adventure with Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore — https://go.shr.lc/2NNtcMo @lafamilytravel @BaltimoreMD @Samdfriedman226 #familytravel #travel #Halloween
4 Spots in Philadelphia To Make History Cool With Teens
Thanks to Lin Manuel Miranda and his Broadway smash hit “Hamilton,” U.S. History has never been cooler, so now is the perfect time to hip-hop on the bandwagon and take teens (and pre-teens) to Philadelphia to see “the room[s] where it …
Grab a Bigger Piece of this World With Your Kids — Global CommUnity
Wouldn’t it be great if Pancho Villa could step out of a history book and shake your hand on your first trip to Mexico? What if he told you tales of his revolutionary escapades? (Or his stint in Hollywood while they filmed them?) Or sang folk …
A Fun Family Summer Staycation — Hyatt Regency Westlake
We’ve never done a staycation. I’ve never seen the point. Our house is fine. We have a pool. We have a grill in the backyard. We have a great view of some pretty hills (ok, they’re often brown but they’re better than concrete). We’re a 15 minute
A Long Weekend In La Jolla Shores with Kids
This is more than just a travel story. It’s a love story that takes place on the road. Its latest chapter took place in La Jolla Shores, California. It’s a tale of two families who used to live in the same town and spent a lot of time together. But now, these families live on opposite sides of the country.
Finding Your Alternate Universe at Shakti Fest
I recently had the chance of sitting down with prolific yoga master, Shiva Rea, for a fireside chat. OK, maybe she was driving on the freeway and talking to me through her cell phone and I was sitting in my office, enduring the hot …
7 Tips For A Fun, Romantic Trip to Lake Nacimiento
If you’ve been married for longer than a minute or are even dating someone for more than 6 months, you know. Relationships take effort. You have to really work at “Happily Ever After”
Flying Over Trees — Ziplining in Wrightwood, California
It was news to us. We didn’t know our son Kaleb was scared of heights until we rode the Ferris wheel at California Adventure. When our pod started climbing and swaying, he threw himself on the floor and hid his head between his father’s knees. …
A Spooktacular Howl-O-Ween at the Great Wolf Lodge
It started on our family trip in the lobby of the Great Wolf Lodge in Garden Grove, Orange County. A big, black spider clung to the ceiling, its sharp fangs hovering over the little guest’s heads, an eerie spiderweb covered the entire front …
2 Moms, 4 Boys and an RV: 7 Tips on Enjoying Family Camping
What could possibly go wrong? Four boys jostling in a small space, no husbands to pawn them off on for a few seconds of peace? Well. This. This could go wrong. And it did. Over and over again. But that’s not the whole story. The idea was …
Glamping with Kids at Ventura Ranch KOA
Before children, camping was an adventure. We got dirty. We drank during the day. We slept on the dirt with only a thin layer of stuffed polyester protecting our bodies from the rocks. We cooked on grills powered by fires we …
Giving Mothers the Gift of Peace: Shakti Fest Yoga
As a young mother, Drorit Rudin said, she was always worried about specific things that might happen to her kids, things that were mostly beyond her control. Rudin had three kids within three years of each other. She tried to take care
Splashing Around at the Great Wolf Lodge
When the Great Wolf Lodge in Garden Grove, CA first opened, I didn’t see how an indoor waterpark could survive, or even be of interest, in Southern California. Who would want to go? Leave the sunshine for a bunch of indoor waterslides?
The Los Angeles Zoo — A Walk On the Wild Side
I’m not really a zoo person. I want to get excited about the animals and the obscure, rare anacondas crawling around the other creepy bugs ~ but I know if I actually encountered those things in the wild, I’d probably step on them. Or …