All Posts: Planning
If you’ve never visited Trekaroo, I recommend you get yourself to this fun and friendly website that’s all about family travel. You can browse reviews of things to do with kids written by other parents, get tips on traveling with kids, and even book your trip. Sign up for your own “passport” page and bookmark [...]
Today I’m thrilled to publish a guest post by Amie O’Shaughnessy, the editor of Ciao Bambino, a family travel blog and worldwide guide to the best, family-friendly properties (if you haven’t checked out her site, you should – it’s both helpful and gorgeous). Here she offers suggestions for finding places to stay with children in [...]
Today is my 39th birthday. More significantly for my readers perhaps is the fact that tomorrow, June 16th will mark the one-year anniversary of this blog. I started The Mother of All Trips for several reasons: to take the sting out of the many rejections of my book manuscript by publishing something, even if I [...]
I’ve never talked much on this blog about money or budgets, but with the economy being in the state it’s in, and with everyone talking and writing about staying home this summer, I’m feeling the need to do so. Not because it’s trendy but because I realize that anything I can do to show families [...]
I’m a big fan of the Wanderlust and Lipstick website and I recently have been lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of Wanderlust and Lipstick: Traveling With Kids by Leslie Forsberg and Michelle Duffy (who blogs as WanderMom). This guidebook is a companion to the other books published as part of [...]















