Loren Braunohler
Catching the End of the Ski Season at ...

Smuggler’s Notch is a year-round resort located in Jeffersonville, Vermont, less than an hour from the U.S.-Canada border. It is routinely named by Ski Magazine as one of the “Top 20 Resorts in the East” (often taking the top spot) and was named one of the “Best Ski Resorts in the US and Canada” in Conde Nast Traveler’s Reader’s Choice Awards (2023) and the “Best Action-Packed Mountain Resort for Year-Round Fun” in Good Housekeeping’s Family Travel Awards (2024). Does Smugg’s live up to the hype, and if so — what causes it to be such a standout among families and skiers alike?

Catching the End of the Ski Season at Smuggler's Notch Resort in Vermont
Family-friendly travel, Travel with kids, ukraine
Loren Braunohler
Family Fun in the Carpathians

A laid-back, family-friendly rustic mountain retreat in the middle of a long Ukrainian winter? Yes, please!

In late February, after seven months of suburban Kyiv city life, we made our way to Voevodyno, a family-friendly resort in the fresh air of the Carpathian Mountains. It was the break we needed.

Family Fun in the Carpathians
Family-friendly travel, ukraine
Loren Braunohler
How to Visit Lviv with Kids

Lviv . . . the most beautiful, romantic, full-of-personality little town in Ukraine there ever was. Not that I've been to that many towns in Ukraine quite yet, but I imagine that this is the best one (shhhhhh, don't tell Kyiv). It's quaint, historic, lively, full of stunning architecture, offers unique restaurants and fantastic parks . . . and we barely even scratched the surface. Like barely even scratched the surface.

How to Visit Lviv with Kids
Family-friendly travel, travel with kids
Loren Braunohler
Five Tips for Traveling Internationally with ...

In August, we traveled internationally during COVID-19 with our four kiddos, one big, loveable Golden Retriever, and about 1,000,000 bags. If a similar trip is on the horizon for you, here's our story and my tips for how to make the trip as safe as possible, and (hopefully) less stressful.

Five Tips for Traveling Internationally with Kids (and a Dog) During COVID-19
Family-friendly travel, Italy family travel, luxury family travel, travel with kids
Loren Braunohler
Tuscany with Kids (San Gimignano, Pisa, Lucca)

Romantic hilltop towns. Medieval town squares. Vineyards as far as the eye can see. Farm-to-table restaurants. Italian wine. Pecorino cheese. Olive groves. Ahh, Tuscany. 

We just returned from a wonderful week in this paradise. We explored seven towns in seven days, ate fabulous food, and ran free in the most beautiful town squares. We visited family farms, saw saffron-picking and cheese-making in progress. We explored old fortresses and cycled along ancient city walls. We ate gelato every.single.day. The kids filled their pockets with olives, wine corks, acorns, and fall leaves. After all, it's the simple memories that are sometimes the most treasured ones.

Tuscany with Kids (San Gimignano, Pisa, Lucca)

family travel crete

Crete's Best Beaches With Kids

Crete's Best Beaches With Kids

After a perfect family beach vacation to Mallorca in 2016, we found it hard to consider anything else but going back in 2017. Hundreds of stunning beaches, beautiful landscapes, crystal clear water . . . you can read all about that here. 

And then my husband threw a wrench in things, "how about we try some place new?" 

What? Did I just hear that right? I was so set on going back to Mallorcan perfection, that I hadn't even given thought to some other beach locale. We looked at our options, and ultimately we decided to throw caution to the wind and try some place new.

Don't be that parent who doesn't know what's up.

 
 

Our adventures in the square world

Happy Easter from Newport, RI ❤️#heisrisen #happyeaster #newport
Viva Barcelona! First trip away from the kiddos in 5 years. So happy to have this time together ❤️ #barcelona #getaway #parkguell #gaudi #spain