Tag archives for Rainer Jenss
Back to Sugar Loaf
Posted by Rainer Jenss on July 8, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. Now he’s writing a column that focuses on traveling with kids. A recent one-week trip to Brazil marked the first time I’ve been overseas without my family since returning from our yearlong…
Take the Kids: Biking through Harlem
Posted by Rainer Jenss on May 18, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. This year, he’s back with a new column that focuses on traveling with kids. Ask a typical New Yorker (if there is such a thing) when they last went to the top…
Whale Watching With Kids
Posted by Rainer Jenss on May 6, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. This year, he’s back with a new column that focuses on traveling with kids. Warning: The term ‘”family friendly” can be deceiving. If you’re planning a holiday that includes children, do you…
San Diego Segways with Kids
Posted by Rainer Jenss on April 29, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. This year, he’s back with a new column that focuses on traveling with kids. One of the main motivators for choosing California as our spring break destination this year was the abundance…
California Spring Break
Posted by Rainer Jenss on April 16, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. This year, he’s back with a new column that focuses on traveling with kids. What is it about prisons that so intrigue us? Is it how just the thought of being incarcerated…
Surveying the Kid-Friendly Cruises
Posted by Rainer Jenss on April 2, 2010 Rainer Jenss surveys the field of cruise ships offering packages for families. I probably caught the wanderlust bug the moment I stepped on the S.S. Michelangelo, a classic Italian Line ocean liner that relocated my family and me to the United States in 1970. I was only six years old back then, but I remember…
Catching Up with Jennifer Conlin
Posted by Rainer Jenss on March 15, 2010 After attending the New York Times Travel Show, Rainer Jenss had a chance to catch up with Jennifer Conlin, a frequent correspondent for the newspaper’s Travel section who has specialized in family travel. She recently relocated to Cairo with her husband and three children and he spoke with her about life as both a mother…
Braving Snow for the Travel Show
Posted by Rainer Jenss on March 2, 2010 Rainer Jenss escaped the snowstorm this weekend in an effort to get inspired for his next family vacation. After logging many an hour looking for family travel advice on the web, this week I changed gears and turned to some good old fashioned technology – printed brochures and face-to-face conversation. A radio commercial for the…
The Top Family Travel Websites
Posted by Rainer Jenss on February 22, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. This year, he’s back with a new column that focuses on traveling with kids. This could be the toughest blog I’ve had to write yet. It’s Presidents Week and most kids across…
One Step Closer to a Good Shot
Posted by Rainer Jenss on February 12, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. This year, he’s back with a new column that focuses on traveling with kids. I challenge you to name the brand of the golf clubs Arnold Palmer once used or tell me…
Give Your Kids a Camera
Posted by Rainer Jenss on February 5, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. This year, he’s back with a new column that focuses on traveling with kids. Lots of parents, myself included, are concerned about what affects all the electronics–and the digital age in general–…
Take Your Family Outdoors
Posted by Rainer Jenss on January 22, 2010 Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel. This year, he’s back with a new column that focuses on traveling with kids. Some quick advice: If you are a mom or dad of a school-aged child and have anxiety if…
Jenss Family Travels: Living a Dream
Posted by Rainer Jenss on September 29, 2009 Rainer Jenss, his wife Carol, and their sons Stefan and Tyler, are just back from having spent a year traveling around the world, and we were able to follow along as they blogged about their journey for Intelligent Travel and National Geographic Kids. Now that they’re back and adjusting to a static existence, we asked…
Jenss Family Travels: Journey’s End
Posted by Rainer Jenss on August 4, 2009 For the past year, Rainer Jenss and his family have been traveling around the world and blogging about their experiences for us at Intelligent Travel. This post marks the last dispatch from their journey, and the end to an incredible year. You can see where they’ve traveled by going back through the archive of their…
Jenss Family Travels: En Route to Paradise
Posted by Rainer Jenss on July 22, 2009 Rainer Jenss and his family are wrapping up the final stops of their around-the-world journey, and they’re blogging about their experiences for us at Intelligent Travel. Keep up with the Jensses by bookmarking their posts, and follow the boys’ Global Bros blog at National Geographic Kids. Most travelers have probably heard the expression, “It’s not…
Jenss Family Travels: Costa Rica
Posted by Rainer Jenss on June 29, 2009 Rainer Jenss and his family are currently on an around-the-world journey, and they’re blogging about their experiences for us at Intelligent Travel. Keep up with the Jensses by bookmarking their posts, and follow the boys’ Global Bros blog at National Geographic Kids. When our TACA flight from Lima finally touched down in the capital city…
Jenss Family Travels, Mysteries of Egypt – Part II
Posted by Rainer Jenss on April 20, 2009 Rainer Jenss and his family are currently on an around-the-world journey, and they’re blogging about their experiences for us at Intelligent Travel. Keep up with the Jensses by bookmarking their posts, and follow the boys’ Global Bros blog at National Geographic Kids. On the remote chance that someone from the Ministry of Egyptian Tourism might…
Jenss Family Travels: Eyewitness Kenya
Posted by Rainer Jenss on March 30, 2009 Rainer Jenss and his family are currently on an around-the-world journey, and they’re blogging about their experiences for us at Intelligent Travel. Keep up with the Jensses by bookmarking their posts, and follow the boys’ Global Bros blog at National Geographic Kids. If you want to know the three most important factors that will likely…
Jenss Family Travels: Lessons from the Road
Posted by Rainer Jenss on February 27, 2009 Rainer Jenss and his family are currently on an around-the-world journey, and they’re blogging about their experiences for us at Intelligent Travel. Keep up with the Jensses by bookmarking their posts, and follow the boys’ Global Bros blog at National Geographic Kids. It’s strange, but we’re seven months into our trip and I still get…
Introducing: The Jenss Family Travels
Posted by Rainer Jenss on June 2, 2008 Rainer, Carol, Tyler (in the blue shirt) and Stefan (in the green shirt). In one month, National Geographic Kids Vice President and Publisher Rainer Jenss will embark on the trip of a lifetime. He’s selling his house and setting off for a year-long, round-the-world journey with his wife and two sons, and he’ll be blogging…
