The Travel Library
Stories, activities, and adventures worth taking with you.
A growing collection of travel journals, history hunts, activity books, family field notes, and unexpected finds: created to help the world feel more interesting before, during, and long after the trip.
A library built for the way discovery really happens.
The Travel Library is what you download, print and carry. The Travel Journal is where the stories live, written from the road. Explore the World is where the destinations are. Curiosity rarely starts in one of them and stays there, so they are built to hand you along.
There is no single right place to begin.
Some families start with how they want to travel. Some start with what their children already care about. Some just want something to print before Thursday. All four doors lead to the same collection.
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Bend, Oregon
Ways to Travel
Cruises, rail, road, foot, guided or entirely your own. Start from how you want to move.
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Trooping the Colour, London, UK
Themes and Interests
History, books, food, wildlife, festivals. Start from what your family already loves.
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London, England
Tools for Families
Journals, history hunts, cookbooks, and Poppy’s Discovery Deck. Ten printable formats and counting.
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Geneva Airport
Before You Go
Passports, insurance, flying with children, and bringing the dog. The part nobody puts in the brochure.
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Why I built a library instead of a blog
I have been writing about our trips since before I had three kids to write about. The trouble with a blog is that it buries things. The post I wrote about Kyoto years ago sits somewhere under hundreds of others, and the person who actually needs it is never going to find it.
So this is a library instead. Sorted four ways. How you want to travel. What your kids already care about. What you need to sort out before you leave. And things to print and take with you.
None of it is written to sell you a trip. It is written because I got asked the same question forty times and got tired of typing the answer. If you read all of it and never book with me, that is a fine outcome. If you read some of it and then email me, that is a better one.
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Children do not need travel simplified. They need a way into the story.
The right question, clue, drawing prompt, or strange historical detail can change an entire day. These resources are designed to create that opening: not to turn vacation into homework.
Start with the traveler in front of you.
The one who sketches. The one who asks a hundred questions. The one who loves mysteries. The one who says they are not interested: and then remembers one tiny detail forever.
You do not need to use everything. Choose the door that gives your traveler a way in.
Written and kept current by Nicole Damiano, ASTA Verified Travel Advisor with FG Luxury Travel. If something here is out of date, tell me and I will fix it.
The next adventure might begin right here.
Browse the library, follow the story that catches your attention, or tell me where you are going.