Talking travel to a wider audience

Here's something kind of fun for me to boast about. A few posts below, I told you about a new travel website that's hoping to become (and shows every sign of becoming) an internet destination
for families planning their vacations. It's called Kango, and is definitely worth a look.

And today, speaking entirely without humility, it's more worth a look than ever. Yup, I got stuff published there. In addition to its search engine abilities and eating and lodging recommendations, Kango also has a blog in which guest bloggers who have stories about traveling with kids and pets get to pass on useful information. Today, Kango published a post I did about traveling in Paris in the winter with elementary school aged children. It's an interesting time of year to be in Paris and, despite the cold, the wet, and the short days, there's still so much to do.

I hope to have more travel reports up at Kango's blog because, while my family doesn't travel as much as some families I know, we still manage to get around and see some interesting stuff.

Travel info

Kango, which is mentioned in a comment to one of my posts, is an interesting website. It's aim is to provide easily accessible travel information:

Our mission is to help people plan travel that fits their lives perfectly, whether that life is about window-shopping for gems in Beverly Hills, or simply finding hidden gems like a secret bathing pool uncovered by the tide in Kauai. Leave cookie-cutter vacations behind - Kango shows you creative options for romance, nature, glamour, or family fun.

The mission statement makes it sound as if the goal is to help all travelers, but the pictures and category headings make it look as if the website is really focusing on family travel. Thus, in addition to myriad pictures of children frolicking, there are category headlines such as "family friendly things to do in Hawaii," and "family friendly things to do in California."

I think this is a great idea. For years, I've been searching for family vacation plans by plugging phrases such as "family friendly _______" into Google, and hoping for the best. This website, though, looks as if it's already figured out what's family friendly and then consolidated all that information in one place.

Introducing Andi's Answers

I've got a whole lot of opinions about things: books, raising children, education, living in the suburbs, family travel, etc. Sometimes others ask me questions, and sometimes I ask them of myself, but the answers are always there. I see this blog as a place to spout my opinions on a variety of subjects, and as a place for you to come and give me your own opinions on things. Civility will be one of my watch words.

I'm already an experienced blogger at another venue, under another name, so this blog should be pretty polished right off the bat. Come, read, enjoy -- and then come back again.