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Welcome to FamilyTravel.com!
Founded by parents with a passion for family travel and experience vacationing with kids of all ages, FamilyTravel.com is dedicated to making family travel rewarding for the entire family.
Our own unsuccessful on-line attempts to find free, accurate, comprehensive family travel information and simple reliable on-line booking inspired FamilyTravel.com. Our goal is to bring the best family travel information, ideas and booking directly to you.
 Lynn O'Rourke Hayes is the Editor of and a partner with Pam Plesons in FamilyTravel.com. She also writes a weekly Family Travel column for the Dallas Morning News and is a contributor to GoodHousekeeping.com and TravelMuse.com. She has spent more than 25 years writing and speaking about travel and family issues. She has worked for two hotel companies and consulted to numerous other organizations within the travel industry. She and a partner organized a 24-day, around the world golf trip on the Concorde. She has written a book about balancing work and family and contributed to several others. A member of the Author's Guild, her articles and comments have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal and The Arizona Republic. She's appeared on The Today Show and numerous other television and radio programs. Her passion for travel has taken her to more than 80 countries, down rivers, over mountains, through jungles and to 48 of our 50 states. But her favorite trips are those that include family and friends. She resides in Scottsdale, Az and Bozeman, Mt. Find her via lohayes@FamilyTravel.com or call 480.556.6266.
Pam Plesons founded FamilyTravel.com in 2001, realizing that her true passions were her family and travel. She and her husband have traveled extensively with their two children since they were infants. Sharing her knowledge and experiences as a means to inspire families all over the world to learn and grow through travel has become her goal. Prior to this she owned and managed a large Speech-Language Pathology practice, working with head-injured patients for 16 years. Pam and her family recently enjoyed an extended sailing trip. Visit her log ( find the link on the home page ) to learn more.
 Rebecca Kochenderfer is the Senior Editor and Co-Founder of Homeschool.com. With over 2 million visits a year, Homeschool.com was named the #1 homeschooling site on the Internet and one of the Top 45 sites overall by Forbes Magazine (2001). Rebecca is also the co-author of Homeschooling For Success: How Parents Can Create A Superior Education For Their Child (Time Warner). Rebecca believes that traveling with your children is one of the best educational advantages you can give them so she travels as often as she can with her husband and three young children. She speaks Japanese and some German and has lived in Japan, Germany and the Caribbean.
 Kim Foley MacKinnon is a Boston-based journalist, editor and mother. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe and many other Massachusetts publications, as well as various websites. She is the author of "A Parent's Guide to Boston," a great resource for residents and visitors alike, detailing more than 200 activities and sights in Boston. Traveling is her passion, which she loves to share with her four-year-old daughter, who has accompanied her on many trips, including all across the United States, to Italy, Canada and Puerto Rico (so far).
 Derek Mackenzie-Hook is first and foremost a single parent who just happens to work as a travel writer. He's become a seasoned traveler with his two children with whom he has traveled the globe on many writing assignments. He is now a veteran of marathon plane flights, turbulent sea crossings and arduous car trips with toddlers through to teenagers, all of which has earned him the title of 'specialist in multigenerational travel'!!
Derek lives on a small, lochside farm in the Scottish Borders with his two sons, who are now teenagers. His favorite place to travel with children is Ireland, which was the inspiration for his much acclaimed guidebook and 'bible' for family travel in Ireland - Ireland for Kids (Mainstream Publishing). Derek is now relishing the prospect of working with FamilyTravel.com because he firmly believes that parents need all the help they can get to guide them to the places that genuinely cater for families and children, and not just tolerate them.
Mike McIntee is a New York-based writer and dad. His work appears daily in the Late Show with David Letterman's Wahoo Gazette (a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on at the Late Show with David Letterman) as well as other publications. In addition to working at the Late Show, Mike loves to travel with his wife, Denise, and his 7 year old twin daughters, Danielle and Dominique, and write about their experiences.
Diana Shelton Scherr is an intrepid traveler and adventurer. Active and enthusiastic, Diana and her husband Matt, along with junior explorers Piper and Duncan, are part of the FamilyTravel.com Advisory Panel, providing input and assessments about traveling with the youngest among us. Inspired by her native Colorado, Diana specializes in adventure and off the beaten path destinations. Occasionally those adventures occur within the hallowed walls of spas and luxury resorts. Find her via Diana@FamilyTravel.com.
Alex Hayes is an enthusiasic traveler, equally at home on a black diamond ski slope, a challenging par five, a trout-laden backcountry stream or in a teeming metropolis half-way around the world. A graduate of the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications, Alex enjoys chronicling his adventures in words and images. Find him via Alex@FamilyTravel.com.
Susan Cook is a photographer and enthusiastic globe trotter. Her photographs appear on the site from time to time. She resides in Princeton, NJ and Costa Rica.
Warmest regards and happy traveling! |
