Traveling with family is our focus this week, as we’re joined by family travel expert Mara Vorhees. Mara is a writer with Lonely Planet and has plenty of experience traveling the world with her young twins. She tells us about the benefits and opportunities of world-schooling for children and shares some great tips for traveling as a family.

She is heading to Russia later this month and will share how to make the world your classroom.

 

Mara Vorhees writes about food, travel and family fun around the world. Her work has been published by BBC Travel, Boston Globe, Delta Sky, Vancouver Sun and more.

For Lonely Planet, she regularly writes about destinations in Central America and Eastern Europe, as well as New England, where she lives. She often travels with her twin boys in tow, earning her an expertise in family travel. Follow their adventures and misadventures at