6 Steps to Plan Your Off the Beaten Path Trip

Get off the beaten path

Once you have those plane tickets in hand, planning the next steps of your journey can seem overwhelming.  There are often so many options and so much information to sift through online, you get stuck.  In reality, you don’t want…

Staying in a Hostel with a Family

Hostel with kids

When you look at accommodations at a new location for your family, there are several different options: standard hotel, apartment, hostel, house…  It is easy to look at hostels as a backpacker, young, single option.  However, many hostels are able…

Public Transportation Around Vientiane 2024

When you are traveling with kids, you want the transport from place A to place B to be as easy as possible.  Add to that learning how a new culture works and what is an acceptable amount of bartering, transportation…

Crossing the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge Border

The closest border crossing to Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, is at the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge in Nong Khai, Thailand.  Nong Khai is a bustling small town with many hostel and hotel options to stay in before making the…

7 Ways to Salvage a Bad Travel Day with Kids

We’ve all had those days. You know, the days when nothing quite goes right when traveling. One kid after another is having a meltdown, you can’t find where you’re needing to go, or something just didn’t go as planned. How…