Family Travel Experts

Our Family Travel Experts

Steve Jermanok

As author of New England Seacoast Adventures, Steve Jermanok strolled the entire northeastern coastline to find the finest beaches to suntan, swim, surf, and sea kayak. He's also toured much of America's Atlantic shoreline, writing destination pieces for The Away Network, Boston Magazine (contributing editor), The Boston Globe, Budget Travel, Health, Forbes Life,...
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Emily Kaufman

Emily Kaufman appears frequently as a travel contributor on Good Morning America, as well as writes for publications including Woman's Day, For Me, and 805 Living. She is also the author of newly released The Travel Mom's Ultimate Book of Family Travel from Broadway Books.

She has two teenage children and also travels frequently with her twin two-year-old nieces. She and her...
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Christine Loomis

Christine Loomis has traveled extensively in Europe, and once spent a month with her children exploring France and Italy by train, boat, van, bicycle, and foot. The family favorite? Piloting their own boat along the canals of southern France, though hiking in the Dolomites and finding a small, wonderfully family-friendly hotel as a home base were close seconds. If you ask her son, who was ten at the time, riding high-speed...
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Candyce H. Stapen

One of The Away Network's most accomplished contributors, Candyce Stapen has authored some 1,600 travel articles and 27 books, 26 of them on family travel. She is the winner of the 2004 "Caribbean Travel Writer of the Year for North America" award and a three-time winner of the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award. She is currently president of the Travel Journalists Guild. Her articles...
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Laura Tiebert

Laura Tiebert is a freelance writer whose travels have taken her from the frozen tundra of Dawson City in Yukon Territory to the wide beaches of Muscat, Oman. A native Midwesterner, she lived in New York City for years before returning to Chicago. Today, she stays a bit closer to home in Evanston, Illinois, where she lives with her husband and two young children.

Laura is the author of Frommer's Chicago...
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Alistair Wearmouth With two young children now in tow, Alistair Wearmouths travel perspective has shifted seismically from digging out the best backpacker hostel in Kathmandu to coping strategies for toddlers on a transatlantic flight. A writer and editor based in Washington, D.C., his world travels have taken him through Europe, India, Nepal, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Canadian Rockies, and beyond. He has written for publications including Backpacker, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian.com.
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Sarah White Sarah White has more than seven years of publishing experience, five of which she spent with National Geographic magazine writing for both print and online media. Blame it on the photos; while working for National Geographic, Sarah developed a strong desire to travel, leading her to explore much of Western Europe. She now combines her passion for travel with her love of the written word. She has written for Smithsonian.com and...
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