Our family loves to travel. We’ve frequently bypassed desirable destinations in the United States in favor of using our miles and points to travel abroad. Italy is one of our favorite places, but we’ve also had incredible trips to Australia, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam and many more great destinations. Disney parks around the world are another of our favorite destinations. Those trips have made it difficult to explore very much of the US. COVID-19 turned that formula on its head. Most countries won’t even let Americans in right now. Many of […]
Family Travel
From Our Daughter: Hersheypark During a Pandemic With Anxiety
Earlier this week our family took a socially distanced visit to Hersheypark. There was general nervousness as parents. The risk was really low that someone in our family would contract COVID-19. But, we didn’t have to go to a theme park. We took lots of precautions and came up with strategies to help manage our daughter’s anxiety. The more we talk to folks about her anxiety, the more we hear from other families who deal with something similar. To that end, a friend asked if our daughter would share what she […]
Is It Safe To Visit Hersheypark? Here’s What To Expect When Hersheypark Opens This Week
For those of you that follow our families travels on a regular basis, you can usually find pictures of us in a theme park somewhere. We’re equal opportunity people, hitting up popular parks like Disney World and Universal Studios, while also visiting Legoland and Hersheypark multiple times a year. My friend Richard Kerr asked this week, “Does the Pizza family have season passes to every theme park in the country?” The answer is no, but we do have season passes to more than one. After a one-year hiatus, we decided […]
Why I’m Not Sweating Being “Stuck” At Home
As the world starts to open up again, bit by bit, I see a number of folks begin to travel. I also see a number of folks who are planning travel. And, another group of people who haven’t even begun planning a trip. I’ve been home for almost 90 days now. That’s the longest stretch I’ve been home since our son was born a decade ago. You would think that has me antsy to get back out there. After all, my life has been travel for more than a dozen […]
From My Daughter: Five Places I Want To Visit After Being Quarantined
From time to time, my daughter gets the urge to write a blog post. She was talking about all the places she wants to visit when it’s safe to travel. Next thing I know (without any urging from me) she wrote a blog post about her top 5 places she wants to visit. If you enjoy this post, you can check out some of her previous posts. Without further ado, here you go….. Hi everyone! My name is Cat! You may have heard of me before, for my dad has written […]
Planning An African Safari For Your Family
An African Safari is probably one of the more adventurous trips you can plan with your family. A safari is sure to create lifelong memories for adults and children.
A Delta Crew Of All Women Flew 120 Girls To NASA Headquarters
A crew of experienced female pilots, cabin crew and ground crew took a group of teenage girls to NASA headquarters to drive home the point that women are poised take a larger share of jobs in aviation.
Airline Plans To Alert Travelers Where Babies Are Sitting On Their Next Flight
Good idea or bad? Japan Airlines is releasing a new feature that will allow customers to see where lap children on sitting on a particular flight.
Does Excellent Customer Service Still Exist? What About Good Manners?
The flying experience can be so much more then getting from point A to point B. With so many complications arising and service levels eroding generally, many people feel more like they’re boarding a flying bus than the upscale experience of my father’s age of flying. I wanted to share the story of a day where travel plans went awry, and yet it turned out to be a great day for a number of reasons. The story also includes a flight crew that made our day extra special in […]
I “Broke” My Family On Spring Break!
You can really have too much of a good thing. And, that may be exactly what happened on our spring break vacation.
