About

Hi, I’m Kenton.
I’m a father of three young kids who believes that having children doesn’t mean your world needs to get smaller. It just means you need to approach travel a little differently.
My wife and I built our relationship around exploring new places, experiencing different cultures, and seeing how other people live. When we started our family, we made a simple decision: travel would remain part of our lives. Not because it’s always easy, but because we believe it’s one of the best ways for our kids to develop a broader view of the world.
Family Travel Done Well is where I share the lessons, systems, and experiences that have helped us keep traveling through pregnancy, newborn stages, and toddler years.
Over the past few years we’ve traveled across North America, Europe, and Central America with babies as young as five weeks old, toddlers, and during multiple pregnancies. Some trips have been simple beach vacations, others have been multi-city international trips, and many have been a mix of work and family travel.
Each one has helped refine how we approach traveling as a family.
The philosophy behind this site is simple: travel with young kids doesn’t have to feel chaotic if it’s planned thoughtfully.
Rather than chasing bucket-list experiences or trying to do everything, we focus on practical decisions that make trips sustainable. That means choosing comfortable accommodations, prioritizing walkable locations, minimizing travel friction, and designing trips around the realities of young children.
My background in construction project management also shapes the way I plan travel. I naturally think in systems, logistics, and sequencing. Those same skills translate surprisingly well to family travel, where small decisions around location, timing, and pacing can make the difference between a relaxing trip and an exhausting one.
Another thing that makes this site a little different is perspective.
I’m not a full-time travel influencer. I work a full-time career, balance family responsibilities, and plan trips within the same constraints most families face — limited vacation time, real budgets, and young kids with very real needs.
That makes the advice here grounded in reality.
You’ll find honest breakdowns of what works, what doesn’t, and what we would do differently next time. Some posts focus on destinations, others focus on the systems we use to reduce stress while traveling with kids.
If there’s one idea that runs through everything on this site, it’s this:
Travel with young kids isn’t about squeezing in as much as possible. It’s about designing trips your family can actually enjoy.
Done well, those trips become something your family can keep doing for years to come.