Family travel

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I just took a long weekend family trip to Huntsville Alabama. Down the road from Huntsville about 45 minutes (and about an hour from Chattanooga) is the Unclaimed Baggage Center. It’s been on my list of places I wanted to go for a long time. It started out …

I piled the wife, kid, and luggage in the car for a four-day weekend to the unexplored lands of…Huntsville, Alabama? I get interviewed a lot in the media about how families can take a vacation without spending a fortune. It doesn’t matter for them how dirt cheap Guatemala or Thailand is right now because they …

I’m on a mixture of assignments and family vacation right now, with one of the articles being about visiting Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver—then on to Banff in the Rockies—using only public transportation. That ended up including a few taxi cab rides and a lift from a friend (with six of us in the car), but …

“What do you do?” It took me a few years to get to the answer I wanted, but I was pretty darn excited when I could start truthfully answering, “I’m a travel writer.” Now that I’ve been answering that way for quite a few years now, I’ve noticed that nearly everyone seems to ask one …