Monday, February 6th, 2012

An Interview with Teresa Keller

Image: RTWwithus.org When I originally posted about Teresa Keller, the single mom volunteering around the world with her kids for a year, the post immediately became one of the most controversial ones ever on this site. The biggest controversy was that it appeared that the donations for which Teresa solicited were going toward paying for [...]

Family RTW Travel: This Is NOT Charity

Image: L.S. Doron I’m always first to defend long-term travelers.  So when I saw a piece on Boston.com about a family traveling the world and volunteering for a year, I began mentally preparing a defense in my head to take to the anti-travel trolls in the comment forums, just as I did in the Boston.com [...]

Travelers’ Night In — Family Travel!

On this week’s round of Travelers’ Night In, the interactive Twitter discussion for avid travelers and travel lovers, we focused on family travel!  As always, ten questions were asked, people responded while tagging their tweets #TNI, and learned quite a bit about some new destinations! This week’s edition of #TNI was sponsored by Yucatan Holidays.  [...]

How to Travel with a Sibling

I love my sister, and I love that she’s just as crazy about travel as I am. Sarah and I took our first trip together in June 2006, shortly after she graduated from high school and I graduated from college.  Our two-week Europe trip took us to London, Florence, Venice, Milan, Paris, Brussels and Bruges. [...]