Notes from the road, written after bedtime

Longer pieces about what family travel is actually like. No listicles, no affiliate roundups — just the things we noticed and wanted to remember.

Six phrases that appear in every hotel description, and what each of them turned out to mean once we arrived with two.

5 minute read

We stopped planning days around places and started planning them around the middle of the afternoon. Everything got better.

4 minute read

Ninety minutes is the number. Everything we have learned about the drive, the stop and the last twenty minutes.

5 minute read

The Dispatch

One useful email a month.

An honest hotel, one mistake, one packing decision, and one practical lesson worth knowing before you leave.

Independent notes. Honest disclosures. Always.