Traveling the world full time with my family, for research of course.
We’re out here living it. Learning it, exploring it, sometimes getting it wrong before we get it right. I turn that into trip planning you can actually use.
I’m Nicole. I’ve been traveling since I was a kid on my own, then with my husband Adam, and now with our three, Gavin, Jake and Avilene. Poppy the dog comes too, because apparently we don’t do easy.
I spent eight years teaching social studies before I traded lesson plans for itineraries.
Right now we’re in the middle of it, traveling around Europe together as a family. I’m an ASTA Verified Travel Advisor with FG Luxury Travel, and this is where I write about the actual trip, not the highlight reel, and help you plan yours.
How I Can Help
Three ways in. Same person on the other side of every one.
Cruises
River cruises, Disney Cruise Line and the big ships. I book them and I sail them myself.
See cruise options →Europe
Where we’re traveling right now. Cities, countryside, the slow way and the fast way.
Explore Europe →Asia
Japan, Korea and the trips I plan and price for other families.
Explore Asia →Try the tools, then hire me to plan it
Six little tools I built for the families I plan for. Use them to figure out what you want. Then bring me your answers and I build the real trip.
What to book when
Your whole list in order, with real dates for your trip.
Make my list
What will it cost?
A realistic range for the whole family, before flights.
Show my budget
Where should we go?
Eight questions, one trip that fits your family.
Take the quiz
Where should we go this break?
The places that fit the exact week you have off.
Find our break trip
Which cruise is right for us?
The three lines I would look at first, and the ship to start with.
Find our cruise
What do we pack?
One checklist for everyone, built for your trip.
Build my packing list
Every Monday
The Damiano Dispatch
Where we are this week, what went right, what went sideways, and a city I think you’d love. Plus the printables for that city and the trips I’d book this season.
Latest: Edition 01, London. Four months abroad, zero sick days. Then Florida. 😂
Printables That Turn Trips Into Learning
History Hunts, Explorer Journals, activity books, a family cookbook and travel bingo, ten books for every city, built for real kids on real trips. Story led, age matched, made to get them looking up from the iPad and into the place they are actually standing in.
Explore the Learning Library
History HuntAges 11 to 13
Explorer JournalAges 8 to 12
City Activity BookAges 7 to 10
Poppy’s Discovery DeckAges 3 to 7
Family CookbookAges 7 to 12
Adventure BingoAll ages
Family Keepsake PackWhole family
Travel Day Little ExplorersFor the plane
Travel Day Junior NavigatorsFor the plane
Travel Day Co-PilotsFor the plane
From the Road
The newest stories from our family, straight from wherever we are this week.
Tell me where you want to go. I’ll tell you how to actually get there.
Start PlanningNicole Damiano, ASTA Verified Travel Advisor with FG Luxury Travel. Adventures We Seek is my travel blog and planning resource. Trips are booked through Favorite Grampy Travels.
Family trip plans
Where are you taking the kids?
