This was our third trip to Disney with the kids and by far the easiest! Disney with teenagers requires so much less planning. As long as the adults on the trip are willing to more or less go with the flow, you can just follow your kids’ lead once you are there. That being said, there are a few decisions that the adults need to make in advance, such as where to stay and what tickets to buy. We started off looking at resorts on Disney property. It honestly never occurred to me to look anywhere else. But the more …

I am happy to say that taking a trip to the Orlando theme parks with teenagers requires less trip planning than it does with young kids! Forget laying out a detailed schedule for each day. Forget the websites that will literally give you a minute by minute itinerary. Forget any semblance of a tight schedule. Teens are different animals. Just plan the high level stuff and let them take it from there. The high level details I did have to plan included where to stay, which tickets to purchase, and which park to visit on which day. That was it! …

To my husband, an end of March / beginning of April spring break meant one thing… we could go skiing out west!  To me, it meant we could go skiing out west AND add on something else.  I really like to ski but 3 days is about my max.  With a whole week of spring break, we had plenty of time to combine skiing with another location and activity. Because it tends to be a little warmer in spring outside of its ski areas, we chose Utah as our destination.  Aside from great skiing, Utah also offers some amazing national …

This was a fairly last minute trip so I didn’t do nearly as much planning as I usually do. I wish I could say that this trip opened my eyes to the wonders of spontaneous travel but the truth is, I am a planner at heart and not having travel plans stresses me out. This was especially true on this trip because my mother-in-law joined us and I really wanted to have a smooth, well-planned, fun itinerary for the whole family. I definitely felt like we had some bumps along the way, but in the year of Covid-19 and an …

We started our “decade of travel” with the kids in 2016 – the year my husband and I turned 40 and the year my oldest turned 8 (meaning he had 10 years left before leaving for college). Our goal during this time period is to take one big trip a year (preferably international) and as many small trips as we can fit in to explore locally and nationally. Alaska has long been on our bucket list, and we decided an Alaskan cruise leaving from Vancouver, Canada would fit the bill perfectly for 2019’s big trip. 2019 also happened to be …