Family Travel

Channel Islands Harbor is about an hour north of Los Angeles off the 101 Freeway (exit Victoria). As you’re approaching Channel Islands Boulevard, you’ll notice a fairly new development to …

Looking for an Ojai hike along Shelf Road? A good friend and I recently escaped for a weekend away. My favorite mini-outing was hiking in Ojai. We found the hike …

Tucker Playground in Two Harbors, Catalina Island. Avalon is the tourism center of Catalina Island, but ferries take passengers from the mainland to Two Harbors as well. It’s a cozy, …

I primarily write about playgrounds in my own backyard, but I can’t “turn off” my play radar when we are travelling. Regatta Grounds Park is home to Sandcastle Playground which …

Airport playgrounds serve as welcome relief for travel-weary parents. The playground at the Colorado Springs airport served as a highlight to many family trips. We lived there 3 years and …

Legoland inspires my imagination. It seems impossible to make curvy and round shapes out of angular Lego bricks. Look at the drum. The cello. They did it! They found a …