Practical Travel Gear

Tell Me a Story CDs for Hours of Entertainment in the Car

Kara — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:40:31 +0000

Lately we’ve been borrowing family-friendly, chapters-long audiobook CDs from the library for our long family road trips. But here are some CDs I’ve kept in the car for shorter excursions, when we just need a few short stories to help us get from Point A to Point B without any backseat bickering. The Tell Me a [...]

Miles of Smiles: Book of Road-Trip Games for Kids

Kara — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:01:50 +0000

First published in 1992, and revised in 2002, this paperback book by seasoned travel writer Carole Terwilliger Meyers is filled with 101 car games and activities. I’m guessing this book will be good for quite a few of our family road trips, as we only made our way through about five activities on a recent [...]

Kelty Station Laptop Backpack Does It All

Tim — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:31:19 +0000

Collectively the three of us have tried out a lot of laptop bags and Kara’s getting to another one next week. I’ve been giving this Kelty Station one an unusually tough workout though. I’ve been using it since the spring and so far this thing has been on six flight legs, eight long-distance bus rides, [...]

ExOfficio Nio Amphi Convertible Pants

Tim — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:07:12 +0000

Yeah, I know, I’ve heard all the reasons why these travel pants that convert to shorts are not for cool people. If you’re part of the fashion police brigade, you can ignore this review of ExOfficio’s version. For everyone else—and judging by what I see on the road “everyone else” is a whole lot of people—these [...]

Crazy Mountain Hardware Guys Camp Atop Ski Resort in Chile

Tim — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:24:15 +0000

So there I was sliding off the ski lift at Valle Nevado resort in Chile a couple weeks ago when I spotted a dome tent with a Mountain Hardware logo on it. Curious, I skied over to see what it was all about. As this guy explains in the video, he and a couple other [...]