My favorite time of year in the San Francisco Bay Area is almost here! The weeks leading up to Christmas in San Francisco are always filled with kid-friendly special events and activities, so it is no ...

More than a decade ago, my husband and I made a purposeful decision to switch the bulk of our flying to Southwest Airlines. After some family-unfriendly experiences on other airlines with our young ...

When it comes to national parks, few have quite the name or cachet of Yosemite National Park. Yosemite is one of the oldest national parks in the United States and is also one of the most visited – ...

Rumors have been swirling for awhile that this was coming, but today Disney finally unveiled a new addition to its Lightning Lane portfolio: Lightning Lane Premier Pass. We already have Lightning Lane ...

Disneyland vacations can be expensive endeavors. Budget-conscious visitors often look to save money by foregoing a few of the Disneyland optional extras, from Lightning Lane line skipping to character ...

It was inevitable, I suppose. I’ve been traveling on an almost monthly basis with my three year old on airplanes since she was only three months old. Those readers out there in cyberspace who know me ...

My family doesn’t do long lines on Disney vacations. When we began planning a trip to Japan to visit Tokyo Disney Resort, we knew we were facing our biggest Disney line challenge yet. Tokyo Disney is ...

If you read this blog often, you will know that I am one of Southwest Airlines’s biggest cheerleaders when it comes to traveling with kids. I think Southwest offers a superior product for traveling ...

A few months ago, I got an inquiry from a publication I freelance for to write a guide to Global Entry with kids. Much to my editor’s surprise, I turned the assignment down because my kids don’t have ...

My favorite time of year in the San Francisco Bay Area is almost here! The weeks leading up to Christmas in San Francisco are always filled with kid-friendly special events and activities, so it is no ...

Summer is over, and fall is finally in the air! Or, if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area like I do, you know that fall is in the air somewhere. We don’t exactly have seasons in our part of ...

Contributing writer Jennifer Yellin inherited the travel bug at a young age and when searching for her first job out of college, was thrilled for an opportunity to put her on an airplane every Monday ...