Top Tips for Family Trips

Summer is fast approaching. For kids, it’s time to kick back and savor long, school-free days. For parents, it’s time to embark on one of the year’s scariest roller-coaster rides: the family vacation. Family journeys aren’t easy, and they’re certainly not naturally successful. One way to minimize the hassle and maximize the highlights is to take an organized family adventure tour, planned and led by seasoned professionals and featuring road-tested, family-friendly itineraries and activities. Whether you opt to travel on a tour or on your own, here are five lessons from my own five decades of family travel, as child and as parent; I hope they help ensure your summer adventure is a blast and not a bust. Read more…

Bookshelf: “The Man Who Loved China”

In the past decades, China has emerged as a major player on the world’s political, financial and cultural stages. Simon Winchester’s enthralling new book about the passions and pilgrimages of a British biochemist intimately illuminates China past and to come. Read more…

Interview: John Gans: In the Classroom of the World

The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) has offered almost 200,000 people extraordinary wilderness educations since 1965. Here the Executive Director of NOLS reflects on the organization’s achievements and evolution.  
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