Clearwater Beach, a town about 40 minutes from the Tampa airport, is a low-key beach town with a beautiful white sand beach. It makes a great vacation destination with kids because it's easy to spend the days on the beach and to get around without a car. From Clearwater Beach to Orlando is about a 1 1/2 hour drive.
I'm kind of a sucker for Sangria on a menu. Perhaps it brings back memories of our trip to Spain with the Kids a few years ago, or maybe it's just because it's so delicious on a warm day. It feels like I've ordered Sangria in ...
With a few exceptions, we normally avoid "just for kids" cruises and other activities that don't seem like they'd be as much fun for us as they are for the kids, but somehow on our trip to Florida, Darya and I found ourself on Captain Memo's Pirate ...
Some photographers feel that you must have a novel angle for every photo. How else are you going to distinguish yourself from the masses? I'm not so sure though. When I go through my travel photos, a great view or a particularly pretty sunset always makes me pause, take ...
Florida is a long haul from Seattle, in fact, it's impossible to take a longer flight from Seattle and remain in the continental US, so while all my East Coast friends seem to regard a trip to Florida as an annual entitlement, I haven't visited the state since ...
Darya and I have been missing Everest and Eilan since we left Seattle, but Everest was most in our thoughts when we visited the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. You see, Everest has a dolphin obsession. He has dolphin stuffies, dolphin research books, and he'll probably be a dolphin for halloween ...
There's something funny about the way a four year old understands "getting wet." Everest's Pre-K teacher used to tell me that the kids would splash in huge deep puddles if they had their rainboots on - as if the rainboots would protect them all the way up to their ...
I've been promising Darya a "girls trip" ever since Everest and I checked out San Juan Puerto Rico for kids last summer. And while I recognize that not getting to come along on a solo getaway with mom is hardly a sign of deprivation, I've felt guilty that ...