Family Travel

This whole adventure started back when Nadine and I had this crazy idea to live abroad with our two kids in the Cayman Islands.

Families replaced college friends. Cars substituted bicycles. A van displaced a trailer and carried all the water. We were back in Belgium.

Once again, like Keanu Reeves in Speed, but this time without his Sandra Bullock, I was on another bus hurtling towards the Egyptian Embassy, but at a much more manageable speed.

There was a travel post about Jordan I had forgotten to publish. Before posting it, I’d share seven random facts about Jordan.

I finally found a deal to Amman, Jordan. The only caveat for a return to family travel, a nine-hour layover in Abu Dhabi . . . starting at 1 a.m.

The popular intercity hike through the five Cinque Terre towns was the activity of choice for the three Bissonnette girls, and being outnumbered, that is what this White boy had to do.

Sri Lanka is the antithesis of Qatar. Green, inexpensive, and lacking massive amounts of natural oil and gas reserves. It’s also the first country any newcomer to the region visits. Safe and affordable with activities for every traveler. It’s the 1990’s undiscovered Thailand.

Nadine and kids knocked slushy snow off their ski boots in Güéjar Sierra. The crew had to travel to Valencia before the Spanish New Year.