Tag: vacation

  • Jungle to Beach: Our Spring Break Family Adventure in Belize with Kids 11 & 10

    By spring break 2024 we’d done three cold-weather trips in a row — Ireland, Iceland, Germany — and we’d had enough of packing fleeces in March. We wanted heat. We wanted not to rent a car. We wanted a flight that wasn’t a brutal haul. Belize hit all of it, and we’d loved the Yucatán…

  • Tulum with Kids 5 & 4

    After another brutal New York winter we wanted sun, so we picked Tulum, which Jennifer and I had loved on pre-kid trips. January 2017. Henry was 5, Elias was 4. The plan was relaxed, uncrowded, familiar. Logistics: JetBlue out of JFK, reserved parking. Lightweight, narrow travel car seats designed for getting through airports without dislocating…