in search of darn good digs

This past summer we spent three weeks traveling around Nicaragua with our eight year old son. Here is our advice to make the most of your trip: 1. What to read before you go: We were especially interested in learning about the Sandinista revolution, before and after. The two books below were both informative and […]

We heard that Costa Rica was an amazing place to travel, but somehow it still surprised us with just how good it was as a family destination. In fact, we were so pleased, we couldn’t help but put together a list of out top ten reasons why traveling with kids in Costa Rica is an […]

Costa Rica is a Darn Good Digs paradise. Virtually every inn or lodge we stayed at during our recent three week trip was spectacular. Granted, we spent a long time putting together this itinerary, as we always do – scouring guidebooks and the web for the best places to stay. We also tried to build […]

This past summer we spent three weeks traveling around the Baltics with our six year old boy.  We look for non-stop flights whenever possible, so we naturally appreciated Finn Air’s non-stop NYC-Helsinki flight – not to mention that it happened to be one of the cheapest flights to Europe at the time. After three nights […]

If you haven’t read our post about our summer Southwest trip, you may want to start at the beginning: A Taste of the Southwest in Two and a Half Weeks: Part I.  Part I includes our full itinerary and describes the first half of our adventure, from Phoenix to Taos.  In Part II we start […]

Last week we returned from our two and a half week summer trip to the Southwest – and we already want to go back.  For all those skeptics who wondered why we were traveling to the desert in the middle of the summer, the weather couldn’t have been more perfect (except for a few oven-like […]

Both Allison and I had been to Barcelona in our separate lives, each on vacations with our parents at least 15 years ago.  We knew we wanted to return, but we didn’t need to sleep in the center of all the action.  Instead we decided to stay outside the center in a lovely, traditionally industrial and […]

This past summer we spent three weeks traveling around northern Spain with our three year old son.  We’re always planning new trips, and we had started playing with this itinerary at least two years before.  We knew it was a real winner, with gorgeous beaches, dramatic mountains, world-class cities, and medieval villages.  Plus, we were confident […]

Ten days ago we posted about the first half of our trip to Nova Scotia in 2006 in “Nova Scotia: A Two Week Itinerary (Part I)”.  Again, here was our itinerary: 1st + 2nd nights: Lunenburg at the Lunenburg Arms 3rd + 4th nights: Annapolis Royal at the Hillsdale House 5th + 6th nights: Canning at the […]

When our son turned one, we headed to Nova Scotia for two weeks.  We got a cheap, short flight from Newark.  We rented a car in Halifax, and we hit the road.  Here was our itinerary: 1st + 2nd nights: Lunenburg at the Lunenburg Arms 3rd + 4th nights: Annapolis Royal at the Hillsdale House 5th […]