With 2 Kids In Tow, It's Backpacking We Go

As a family with kids under 10yrs old, our idea of the perfect beach has soft clean sand and gentle waves.   What is even better though is i...

Cruising.  Everyone seems to be doing it these days.  But what about our back-packer-budget-independent travel style?  And with kids in tow?...

Are you an expat or traveler who wants to take your pet with you overseas?  We are!     Moving overseas is  complicated.  Moving a family...

Bangkok is an amazing, vibrant city that blends first- world cosmopolitan perks like air-conditioned shopping centres with the ...

To many people, going on holiday with their kids seems like an impossibility and don’t even mention going overseas.  Wh...

Thanks to a long weekend and to an airfare sale, we recently found ourselves in Launceston, Tasmania.  It was a whirlwind trip ...

For those who know us well, we’re a family of beach bums!   We absolutely love being at the beach:   the kids love to pl...

So what’s a good age that the children should be for travel with family? We’ve been traveling overseas with our kids since they were 3mo...

“What’s the right age to take kids on extended family travel?”    “What age is too young to travel to developing countries?”   T...

A rare sight sometimes in SEA Aside from the typical list of things to see in Asia, if you are traveling (or thinking about traveling...

Appropriately, today marks the start of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac.  Some of the  predictions for this lunar year  are ...

Our year of traveling together as a family is rapidly coming to an end and although in many ways we are looking forward to going home, we c...

This time last year, we were busy packing up the house and counting down the days until we would begin our adventure.  As of today, we’ve ...

Christmas is a time of mixed feelings for us. When we were kids, Jim and I remembered it being an exciting and magical holiday, mostly like...

We’ve been almost 10 months now, living on the road, being ' location independent '.  Until now, we’ve not been in one place for lo...

Full-Moon, 10.11.11 There are 3 islands in the southern Gulf of Thailand :  Koh Samui, Koh Tao and Koh Phangan.  Of these, Koh Samui is p...

We’re back in Thailand! After a couple of nights in Kuala Lumpur, we arrived in Phuket without a clue as to where we were going.  Eventually...

Wow—so that’s it, we’ve just survived 3 months backpacking around South India with our 2 pre-schoolers, and relatively unscathed.  Before c...

What makes a destination ‘tourist friendly’ usually comes down to the historic, cultural, religious and/or natural sights it has to offer. ...

When we read that Thiruvananthapuram (aka Trivandum) had one of the most impressive zoos in India, we made sure to include a stop in this ca...