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Join date: Dec 16, 2023

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In late 2017, I decided to take the leap and start building a family travel app. For years, I had wanted a way for our family to learn about the history of the places we visited and keep track of the memories we had together.


What came from this is DuckAbroad, a family friendly travel app for tracking the places you visit by collecting stamps and stickers in your own virtual passport. It's been a fun and challenging experience. I've created all the collectible stamps and stickers, coded an app that's now available on iOS and Android, and worked endlessly on the content to provide knowledge and insight on over 150 cities, 350 points of interest, and every country.


Eight years later, I'm still adding more content and better ways for families to explore the world together.



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Jun 12, 2026 ∙ 8 min
D-Day for Families: The Story of June 6, 1944 and the Places Where Kids Can Experience It
My grandfather, Sergeant Peter Farley, landed at Omaha Beach about twelve days after D-Day. He was a communications sergeant in the 83rd Infantry Division. On July 4, 1944, the day his division launched its first major offensive south of Carentan, he was wounded by grenade shrapnel. He recovered, rejoined his unit that winter in the Ardennes, and came home. I've stood on the beach where he landed and walked the towns near where he fought. And recently, in Amsterdam, I stood in the Anne Frank...

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May 3, 2026 ∙ 2 min
What I shipped this week
Kon-Tiki, a new iOS travel widget, De Haar Castle, Antwerp, and still looking for travel bloggers Issue 7 of the Weekend History Hunt went out Thursday. This one is about exploration, the real kind, before GPS and satellite maps, when crossing an ocean meant trusting stars and ocean swells and the flight path of birds. It starts with Thor Heyerdahl, who in 1947 built a balsa wood raft with five men who had never sailed and crossed 4,300 miles of open Pacific in 101 days to prove a theory the...

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Apr 22, 2026 ∙ 3 min
The Camping Trip That Created America's National Parks
In May 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to the naturalist John Muir. It said: "I do not want anyone with me but you, and I want to drop politics absolutely for four days and just be out in the open with you." What happened next changed the world. Roosevelt sent most of his official party back and disappeared into the Yosemite backcountry with Muir, two park rangers, and a cook. Over three nights they camped at the Mariposa Grove, near Sentinel Dome, and at Bridalveil Meadow....

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