Editor’s note: Part 2 of our family trip to Southern California! See our Los Angeles & Venice favorites in Part 1. ORANGE COUNTY WITH KIDS On Monday, we packed up our things and drove an hour south to Orange County where we’d be staying at the Waterfront Beach Resort (part of the Hilton group – […]

It’s the last week of summer here, and we just got home from our family trip to Southern California. Every summer we try to run away with the boys somewhere fun (last year was this trip to Watersound) and I’ll admit that I was a little bit reticent to go to LA with Archer being […]

We spent 4 days in San Francisco and it ranks up there as one of my favorite cities to visit with kids.  I’ll be the first to admit – it is hard work to travel with kids. But it really does get easier the older they get, and so we’re starting to dream big about […]

As we hit midway on our Pacific Coast Highway roadtrip, we wrapped up our tour of the Hearst Castle in early afternoon and hit the road north toward Big Sur. It’s a pretty long and desolate (not really the best word for it – maybe uninhabited?) road, so make sure you’ve got plenty of gas. […]