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The best family vacations in the USA with a state-by-state guide to travel in the 50 States and more family vacations in America.

Back country camping in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan

Family Camping Trip Options

When you think about camping, what do you picture? Do you see a tent, or a pop-up camper? Are you boiling spring water, or drinking from the campground water spigot? Camping means different things to different people, from the hardcore, mountaineering types, to the comfort-seeking log cabin...

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Obama's painting at his Barber Shop

Touring The Obama Neighborhoods Of Chicago

We walk through the Obama family's most cherished neighborhoods in Chicago, with Chicago Greeter Tours... There it is, a corner house on Hyde Park Boulevard, half hidden by trees and across a side street from a Byzantine-style synagogue: the home of the President of the United States. Chicago...

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My Family in North Carolina

One Trip to Rule Them All

          My family doesn't get to go on very many vacations.  We are limited by many things, money being one of them.  Another notable thing about this trip is that it is the first time in my life that I felt very close with my Dad.  We usually argue a...

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Keswick Hall, Virginia

Keswick Hall, Virginia

A historic hunt country estate caters to tastefully upscale families seeking civilized rural getaways and scenic drives. Combine a century-old, Tuscan-style villa with the land of Thomas Jefferson called the “Eden of the United States” under the careful hand of new owners, and what do...

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Global Entry Kiosk

My New Global Entry Status

Over the past month, I've been going through the process of joining the Global Entry  program.  This allows a traveler to pass through U.S. Immigration in an expedited fashion.  The Global Entery application process involves a lengthy online application, payment of a $100 fee and...

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Miami, Florida Attractions

Miami, Florida Attractions

For all the fun things to do in south Florida with any age in every season, check out this comprehensive Miami attractions guide. Miami, Florida -- once the playground of grandparents and later, European super models -- is also a great family destination. See what there is to do in the sunny city...

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Lifeguard Stand

Annual Trip to the Southern Most Tip of NJ

Every year since I've been 7, my family has gone on vacation to the Southernmost tip of New Jersey, a three hour drive that is worth every single second. Just thinking about Cape May brings a smile to my face as I recall my latest trip in the summer of 2011. I always make sure my iPod is fully...

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My Favorite Trip of All

  In the summer of 2007, when I was only twelve years old, my grandparents took my family and me on a two-week vacation to Niagara Falls in New York and Canada. This was very exciting for me, personally, because I would be celebrating my twelfth birthday in an entirely different country. On...

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Back to the good old days

  Over the course of every summer my family makes our most meaningful trip of the year. We travel to an old log cabin in the upper right hand reaches of Vermont, a cabin that my grandfather built by hand many years ago. This cabin, unlike what we consider to be the civilized world, has no...

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Measuring frogs for research

"Co' qui?"

Rather than waking up to the drone, hackneyed roar of snow plows in Maine, we were carried out of bed by the soothing lullabies of the restless co’ qui frogs and the pungent aroma of juicy, apple-filled empanadas. “Can I extend my trip?” I remember inquiring to myself that morning...

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