Our family has been traveling a lot for a while now. Long before we started our family travel blog the questions were already coming from friends, family, and random people in our life. How long does it take to drive 500 miles with two little kids? (10 hours) Do airlines charge a fee for checking my baby’s stroller? (In most cases no, but some airlines are beginning to charge for “non-basic” strollers.) What’s the best place to search for flights? [...]
We’re going camping. Summer is in full swing and my Facebook and Twitter feeds are loaded with tales of family trips. We live in Lake Tahoe. It’s beautiful here in the summer. I don’t want to travel away from Lake Tahoe in the summer–that’s what spring and fall are for (come winter I’ll be on the slopes!). But I’m a restless fellow. I love settling into routines at home. I love the relationships. Our church. Our friends. But it doesn’t [...]
It’s Camping week on Family Trek and it has all been leading up to today. Today is the Great American Backyard Campout. A great event that encourages people to take one night, invite friends and neighbors to enjoy the benefits camping has to offer, right in their backyard. As a kid my family didn’t camp. My mom hates camping and almost everything that goes along with it. I didn’t really camp until I was in my early 20s, and I [...]
It was the next logical step. Our family travels had taken us to countless hotel rooms. We’ve been house-guests. We’ve slept on an air mattress in a church Sunday School room in Ireland. Stayed with family we barely knew (“how are we related again?”). The next logical step was to become family campers. We’d never done it before. Not as a family anyway. But it seemed to fit our lifestyle. And it’s easy on the budget. If you have a [...]
It’s Camping week on Family Trek. In thinking about places we want to visit that we would want to camp I keep coming back to Zion National Park. I am inspired by my aunt and uncle who visit this extraordinary place each year with their two kids. There must be something magical about it for them to return year after year. They aren’t the only ones; over 3 million people a year visit the park! My appetite was further wet [...]
It was the weekend before Memorial Weekend and we were in sunny, sun-kissed Santa Barbara when we got the call. While we were basking in the sun, our friends in Lake Tahoe were enduring the winter that would never end. It was snowing. And more was on the way. They had to get out-of-town. With Memorial Day just around the corner camping seemed to be in order. I’d done some camping in the past on rafting trips along the South [...]
