Here is some of the best travel news and notes from around the Internet:
- Best Western is updating their logo and opening some boutique hotels.  Best Western was one of the chains we did not stay at during our recent summer trip when we stayed 9 nights at 8 hotels in 5 different chains
- Customer service shouldn’t really be this hard, asks Ed from Pizza in Motion, detailing a nightmarish encounter with the CLEAR service and trying to get through airport security – I have to say I agree with him!
- You’ve probably heard that Amtrak has announced its Amtrak Guest Rewards 2.0 “devaluation” (it’s not good news), and we found out that Bank of America is going to be the new issuer of the Amtrak card.  Travel is Free gives the real details on the new Amtrak card
- I enjoyed this article from Travel Babbo about the truth about family travel, including the TWO times he’s lost his daughter in a foreign country!  I felt bad when I couldn’t find my daughter at the ZOO! 🙂
- Point me to the Plane shares how a schedule change on Delta hooked him up with the perfect flights from the US to Australia. Â I had a similarly good experience in getting 16 hours in Rome (for FREE!)
Up for more travel news? Â Here’s the previous installment:Â 150,000 bonus mile analysis, the worst decisions on a cruise, and annoying airplane habits
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Dan Miller travels with his wife and 6 (SIX!) children. He loves to help families travel for free / cheap, especially larger families. If you are looking for help, drop him an email at 
You headline begs the question, have you ever even taken taken your kids to a foreign country?
I was really interested in your blog initially but after reading only one plane trip and one train trip that you took your kids on, you’ve really convinced more than ever that travel with a ton of kids is a total whip and really hard to accomplish. Your blog is not much distinguished from many others because you don’t travel very much with your brood. Unless of course, you count being super cheap as a distinction 🙂
Travel Babbo is unique because 99% of his travel is with his kids.
I will say that since you have shown me that traveling with lots of kids is really hard I’ve decided to stop at 2 kids.
Thanks for the birth control!
Thanks for the comments and LOL at the birth control 🙂
This is actually something that I’ve spent a few thoughts on recently. There are several other family trips that I’ve written about besides the ones you’ve mentioned, and we’ve also taken recent trips to Cleveland and Indianapolis. I guess I don’t always write about those because a lot of times they seem “boring”?
I do enjoy Travel Babbo, but one big difference between us is that they are full-time travelers (as I understand it). That gives a lot more freedom than us, trying to juggle a full-time “real job” and school schedules and such. Part of what I write about is that balancing act of trying to still travel with some of those restrictions
Thanks for the thought-provoking comment and thanks for reading (if you still do!!!) 🙂