While we’re all looking for ways to add more meaning to our lives, we sometimes overlook the obvious. Millions of American families end each year with unused vacation days still on the table. What if we all used that hard-earned time off to do something positive in the world? This recent article in Fast Company highlights Global Family Travels as a company that offers the chance to use vacation time to make a difference in the world. We’ve seen firsthand how connecting with o

I started to have second thoughts about traveling to Ecuador with our kids, ages 5 and 8, when it was time for the kids to get their travel vaccinations. It was with the first painful scream that I then wondered what on earth are we doing!? We were leaving the country in a month, flying on an airplane for over 15 hours, and bringing our kids to a country where they had to rely on their mother’s college Spanish to get them through and their father’s crazy, offensively defensi