Ready for a great, big family adventure in the Land of the Midnight Sun? Alaska is 663,000 square miles of scenic landscape ranging from rugged coastlines to towering mountain ranges. But less than three in 10 of Alaska’s two million annual visitors venture into the state’s Interior region, where history is so rich that it's impossible to really understand the diverse culture until you're there. The 49th state is a vast, wild place where children thrive among the flora and fa

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