Where the Kids Roam

The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur, India

Deep in the Indian state of Rajasthan, lies what I believe to be a gem of a city. Udaipur, the historic capital of the kingdom of Mewar, is a far cry from Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. It’s sleepy and comfortable, exotic and refined. It’s like a getaway within a getaway. A place to escape the hustle, […]

Why Traveling with Kids is Hell (and Why I’ll Continue to Do It)

The Memory Game There are roughly 50 or so people who have what’s called Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, or HSAM for short. These people basically have a much, much higher ability to recall events in their life than the average person. For example, someone with HSAM could tell you what happened to him or her […]

My Lonely Planet Listicle

Good ol’ Lonely Planet So, as everyone already knows, Lonely Planet is shit. They cornered the market on guides for foreign countries for so long – yet they were producing outdated, uninteresting, fairly-useless drivel. For a long time I carried around these huge brick-like books which were supposed to be useful for navigating such impenetrable, […]

Lost on Sugarloaf

Brazil=One Big Jungle As an American, it’s difficult to comprehend that Brazil is basically just one big jungle. In America we have deserts, plains, badlands, grasslands, prairies, swamps, woodlands, and urban sprawl. But, as far as I can tell, Brazil is just a huge, tropical, jungle country (about as big as the USA) where everything […]

Top Ten Reasons to Take Your Kids Camping

The List 1. Because my threat that a bear might come and eat them in the middle of the night if they don’t keep quiet and go to sleep is actually a possibility now. And if a bear ate them, that would mean I am not a liar, which is important in raising kids that […]

Winter in Europe…With a Baby

Settling on Europe One of your jobs as a parent is to keep your kids alive. In fact, that might be your main/only job. So, when you plan a big trip with a one-year-old, your first child, you shoot for a safe destination. And, as much as I love third world countries for the crazy […]

How Hard is it to see Pyramids? Honestly.

I’ll tell you how hard it is – very hard. Well, at least in our case it was. Now, granted, by refusing to take stupid tours, we inevitably make things infinitely more difficult for ourselves than they need to be. But must it have been this hard? First Attempt, Day One We had just arrived […]