Five Passports, One Dog & a Whole Lot of Luggage

It started with a simple idea: what if we showed our kids the world before the world told them what to think? We're Roger and Jayne — he's a product designer, she keeps the whole operation running — and together with our three kids and our four-legged co-pilot, we set out to explore.

Home base is Switzerland, but our hearts are always somewhere between a desert highway and a coastal trail. We don't plan picture-perfect trips. We plan adventures — the kind where you get lost, eat strange things, and come home with stories that start with "remember when..."

Our longest and biggest adventure took us across the American West Coast. California, Arizona, Nevada — thousands of miles with three kids in the back seat, snack wrappers everywhere, and a playlist on permanent repeat.

We drove through San Francisco with wide eyes, watched the sunset paint the Grand Canyon in impossible colors, and let the kids run wild on beaches where the Pacific crashed against golden cliffs. Las Vegas with children? More fun than you'd think. Joshua Tree at sunrise? Absolutely unforgettable.

That trip became more than a vacation — it became a book. Family Travel USA West Coast is everything we learned, every route we drove, every tip we wished someone had told us before. It's written for families like ours — the ones who want real advice, not influencer fairy tales.

Let's be honest — we're not influencers. We don't chase the perfect shot for Instagram. We don't fly business class. We don't pretend that traveling with three kids is always magical.

Sometimes it's chaos. Sometimes the toddler melts down at the airport and the rental car smells weird and the "family-friendly" restaurant turns out to be anything but. We share those moments too — because that's what makes it real.

What we do care about: experiencing nature as it is, not as a backdrop. Showing our kids different cultures, different food, different ways of living. Slowing down enough to actually be present. And capturing it all through honest photography — the kind that tells you what a place really feels like, not just what it looks like through a filter.