Experience Gifts for Kids
Discover the best experience gifts for kids! From zoo memberships to cooking classes, find fun, meaningful ideas that create lasting memories.
How to Prepare Toddlers for New Experiences
Let’s be honest, change is hard for anyone. But when you’re experiencing the world for the first time, like babies and toddlers, different can be downright scary. Since toddlers lack the verbal skills to communicate their fears, new experience can be riddled with tears and tantrums… unless you prepare them ahead of time. As a…
How to Pack Light with a Baby
In the first year of his life, our little traveling babe will have taken 15 flights, including one transatlantic! Needless to say, we’ve learned a thing or two about baby packing tips. In the beginning, like all parents, we were lugging around literally everything he had. We basically moved our entire house with us to…
How to Survive Baby’s First Flight
Alright, friends, let’s talk flying with a baby. Every traveler at some point or another has gotten to their gate, seen a baby, and hoped that they weren’t going to be seated next to him/her. Before I had a baby, I did it myself! I like to catch up on sleep on planes, after all….
How to Use Your Cell Phone in Another Country
This may sound a little extreme, but I’ve actually been researching how to best use your cell phone in another country for the last two years. It all started the first time I wanted to take an international road trip. This one in particular was a road trip through Tuscany. While I had an amazing time, here’s what’s…
How to Travel for Less
They say that travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer for a reason—every new experience I have in a new culture makes me a more open, enlightened, and understanding person, enriching my life in so many ways. Unfortunately, being richer in mind doesn’t translate to more money in your pocket. Travel can…
How to Travel More
So you want to travel more? Don’t we all! One of the most frequent questions I get is, “how do you travel so much?” People assume that I have a ton more vacation time, disposable income, or some magic unicorn that’s getting me around the world. One of the main goals of Mari On The…
How to Avoid Jet Lag
One of the best ways to get the most out of the limited time off we get in the U.S. is to be willing to travel overnight and early in the morning, so you still get a full day at your destination. I’m often asked how I manage to not lose the whole following day…