As an editor of Pit Stops for Kids, I'm always looking ahead to our next trip, our next review, and the next place or event I can highlight for readers. As new material pours in, past posts get shuffled to the archives of the site with alarming … [Read more...]
Why I travel with kids
July 8, 2011 By 7 Comments
With fair regularity, I get asked why I travel so much with my kids. Isn’t it exhausting? Will they even remember it? How do you make the time to get away? I could give the stock answers, and I sometimes do: I travel with my kids because I want … [Read more...]
Gimme a P! Gimme an I! Gimme a T! Gimme a…you get the idea.
April 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Have you visited Wendy Perrin's travel blog, the Perrin Post recently? The Conde Nast Traveler guru (my words, not hers) has issued a call for family travel tips (A-Z) from experienced family travelers everywhere. Not only does entering allow you to … [Read more...]
Our top ten national park travel moments
February 21, 2011 By 4 Comments
The Pit Stops for Kids family does our best to do more than 'talk the talk' of family travel: we pack up the kids and walk the walk...through rainforests and woods, deserts and beaches, striving to take our kids beyond the boundaries of what they … [Read more...]
Standing Alone
February 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
Inspired by our travels to Arches National Park. The only downfall of Moab, Utah? In summer, it tops 100 degrees by 11 am. But during our visit, we got a fairly early start and hit Arches National Park before ten. I’d never been here before, … [Read more...]
Hidden
February 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(Inspired by our travels to Death Valley National Park.) The first thing anyone notices (or at least the first thing I always notice) about Death Valley is its unapologetic inhospitality. You drive over the rise of the highway from Beatty, … [Read more...]
