Family Travel Experts

Meagan Francis has been writing about family lifestyle and travel for national outlets for over five years, with credits including Midwest Living, Family.com, Parenting, AAA Living and Parents. A native Midwesterner who enjoys exploring her own backyard as much as more far-flung locales, Meagan loves to hit the road with her five young children and then share what she learns with her readers. Her work often focuses on travel with...

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,...

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...

Christine Loomis has traveled across the U.S. and in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the South Pacific with and without her children. Among her favorite family adventures: More than 30,000 miles by RV criss-crossing America for weeks at a time, and spending a month exploring France and Italy by train, boat, van, bicycle, and foot (with a self-drive boat in the canals of southern France being the...

Jenny McKelvie has been working as a travel writer for more than ten years. Over the past decade she has written for a wide range of publications, as well as co-authoring guidebooks. Her job has taken her to myriad countries and cities around the globe. Since the birth of her daughter, Tara, Jenny has been writing about family travel with her husband Robin.

Robin McKelvie has been a travel writer and photographer for more than a decade. He has visited more than 80 countries and written two dozen books, as well as thousands of travel articles for magazines, newspapers, and Websites around the world. In recent years, after the birth of their first child Tara, Robin and his wife Jenny have shifted to family oriented travel writing.

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...

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...

With two young children now in tow, Alistair Wearmouth's travel perspective has shifted 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.

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...