Anyone Who Makes Travel Easier Is a Star in Our Book
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, October, 2005
There are days when being a travel editor is like being a lottery winner—because I still feel lucky, and because family members want to horn in on my expense account. I say that with love: I’ve been fortunate, over the years, to have my parents join me on magazine-sponsored trips—my Mom to Kauai and Charleston, my dad to Norway.
Of course, there’s no such thing as a free ride. My mom recently told me that the first page she reads in BT is this one—to see if I’ve told yet another “funny” family story.
My sister, Molly, likes to remind me that she’s never gotten a thing. So on our annual family trip to Balboa Island, Calif., I treated for a day at Disneyland. The photograph is from the Splash Mountain ride; Molly is in ...