Eastern Puerto Rico for Lovers: 11 tips for a laid back, hike-filled adventure
Liuan and Matt share their tips for a quick trip to the island, from how to navigate the trails to how to find the hidden pools.
Our Top 10 Children’s Books of 2025
While traveling or at home, we read a lot of picture and chapter books last year with our kids. Here is a list of our 10 favorites.
My South American Classroom Book Discussion Guide for Families and Classrooms
This discussion guide will get kids talking about language learning, travel challenges, making new friends.
8 Books to Prepare Your Family for Guatemala
Planning a trip to Guatemala with kids? Here are a handful of picture books, chapter books, and grown-up books that we enjoyed before visiting Lake Atitlán.
8 Documentaries from our South American Gap Year
Eight documentaries that helped us and our elementary school kids discover more as we traveled South America on our gap year.
36 hours at the Grand Canyon North Rim with Kids
Our family visited the Grand Canyon North Rim in July 2024. We enjoyed a mix of camping and lodge stays, driving and hiking, fancy and make-do meals.
How to Visit Lake Titicaca and Isla del Sol in a Day
This post provides itinerary, prices and everything you need to know for a DIY family day trip from La Paz to Lake Titicaca’s Isla del Sol.
So Long, Uyuni Salt Flats. Hello, Moldy Hotel Room.
A three-day detour at the Argentina-Bolivia border and severe altitude sickness showed our family all that money and U.S. privilege can’t buy.
How Our Gap Year Changed (and Didn’t Change) Us
Reflecting on our transcontinental journey is bittersweet. It makes me miss people and places. It also forces me to face that a change of scenery didn’t change the things about myself that I wish were different. That transformation takes a deeper, harder journey within.
This Is Our Family Gap Year: Itinerary and Future Plans
This is a summary of our family gap year. Here we give an outline of our itinerary, our philosophy of travel, and what might lay beyond this special time.
