Whether it’s your first road trip with your baby or you’re looking for ideas on how to entertain your very active toddler for a long flight, you’ll find a wealth of valuable information on Shelly Rivoli’s website, Travels with Baby.

With two award-winning family travel guidebooks, as well as an award-winning family travel blog, you can find a myriad of tips and advice about products and gear, kid-friendly destinations, travel planning, a worldwide directory of vacation babysitting services and a wonderfully comprehensive worldwide directory of baby gear rentals.

Shelly and I have been in contact since she visited San Diego with her family and wrote a blog featuring Toddler’s Travels in 2008.   I am filled with admiration for Shelly who has managed to create a life where traveling and adventures with her family is intermeshed with her work.  Shelly has traveled to Thailand, Tunisia, Manhattan, Yosemite, Paris, Chichen Itza, Hawaii, Pompeii, Barcelona, Jamaica, London, Costa Rica and elsewhere with her own children under five- so she is quite the expert on how to travel with babies, toddlers and young children.

Now that Shelly and her husband’s children aren’t toddlers anymore she has started a new website, Family Travel 411, for all kinds of useful information about travel with school-age children.  My new go-to resource!

Shelly lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children. Visit her website and blogs at www.TravelswithBaby.com and the new www.FamilyTravel411.com.