A family of 4 from Queens · Collecting passport stamps since 2011
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Oslo, Copenhagen Amsterdam Travelog
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Venezia, Fi, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam
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We’re a family of four, and we believe that travel is the best education you can give a kid. We’ve dragged our family across South America, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Japan, Scandinavia, and back again. Each trip produced a lot of memories, several very questionable food decisions.
These travelogs are the real itineraries — not the “perfect trip” Pinterest board version, but the actual departure times, the hotels we stayed in, what things cost, what we loved, and the occasional logistical chaos that made it memorable. We share them for the prospective traveler who wants the honest account, not just the highlight reel.
| 🌏 Countries visited | 13+ |
|---|---|
| ✈️ Major trips | 4 |
| 📅 Days abroad | 46+ |
| 💵 Total spent | $31,000+ |
| Trip | Year | Travelers | Countries | Days | Total Cost |
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| 🗼 Europe | 2011 | Party of 2 | 5 | 17 | $6,023 |
| 🌎 South America | 2012 | Party of 2 | 4 | ~15 | $5,419 |
| 🏔️ Nepal | 2016 | Party of 2 | 1 | 16 | ~$2,056 |
| 🕌 Morocco | 2018 | Party of 2 | 2 | 13 | est. |
| ⛩️ Japan | 2024 | Family of 4 | 1 | 13 | $12,302 |
| 🌷 Scandinavia | 2024 | Family of 4 | 4 | 12 | $7,860 |
| 🌍 Total | 2011–2024 | 15+ | 86+ | $35,000+ |
📅 We plan around real life NYC school calendars, semester deadlines, playoff schedules — the trip fits around life, not the other way around. Spring break in Scandinavia. It’s fine.
🚂 Trains over connections If there’s a train, we take it. Venice to Florence to Rome by rail. Paris to Amsterdam on the Thalys. The journey is part of the trip and it almost always beats the airport experience by a mile.
💰 Budget-honest, not budget-only We track every dollar. We’ve stayed in budget apartments and boutique hotels. What matters is value: the right place in the right neighborhood, with enough left over to eat very well.
🗓️ The calendar is the truth Spreadsheets are wishes. Calendars are facts. Every guide here has been reconciled against what we actually did — because the plan always looks different from the trip, and the trip is the better story.
👨👩👧👦 Everyone’s on the trip These are family trips, not adult trips with kids attached. DisneySea and the Louvre exist in the same universe. Pokémon Center Osaka and Arashiyama bamboo groves are both on the itinerary. Nobody gets left out.
📍 Every itinerary here is the real thing. Actual flight numbers. What we paid, where we stayed, what time the train actually left. We cross-reference our calendars against our spreadsheets because it turns out the plan and the trip are rarely the same document.