Mohonk, A Mountain House For All Ages
About 90 miles north of New York City in tranquil New Paltz, New York lies one of the nicest resorts we've ever seen -- Mohonk Mountain House. Come take a look. . . Light rain pattered...
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My Family is the Mob and the Amish Shop at WalMart
That is the voice of my mother waking me at 2:30 in the morning to go to the airport. I am strangely wide awake after only 4 hours of sleep and before I am even fully dressed, Grandma is at the front...
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Infamous Party Town In Laos Faces Government Crack Down
In August 2012, the Lao government shut down more than 20 bars along the Nam Song River, sending the message to thrill-seeking tourists that the party may be ending soon in Vang Vieng....
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We Love the Grand America Hotel and Salt Lake City
My family’s recent stay at the luxurious Grand America Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah was surprisingly stress-free for everybody. ...
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How To Travel On A Gluten Free Diet
Gluten-free foods have become big business since the National Institutes of Health acknowledged that Celiac disease affects 1 in 133 Americans every year. Celiac disease and the symptoms experienced by...
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The Best Credit Card And Foreign Exchange Rates For International Travel
Looking for the best credit card with no international fees and the smartest way to exchange currency? Savvy travelers know the challenges and money-saving strategies for managing their vacation dollars...
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Queenstown, Adventure Capital Of New Zealand
Calling Queenstown the Belle of New Zealand's South Island is scant praise to bestow upon this gorgeous lakefront town surrounded by snow-capped mountains and endless views. Instead, we...
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Tweet It: Fall is the Time to Visit Orlando
Fall is a magical time of year to visit Orlando, central Florida's nexus of heat and crowds during summer. It's the time of year for great hotel values, reduced waiting lines everywhere,...
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A National Treasure: Washington D.C.
The mention of a trip to Washington D.C. may seem like the beginning of a dull monologue filled with visits to dusty museums and over-sized monuments. However, nothing could be further from the truth....
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Railing Across Europe With Kids In The Caboose
Nine solid reasons why train travel is an ideal way to get around Europe for some family travelers. Are you counting yourself in that some? Read on. Does Europe's excellent railroad service...
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Israel through the Eyes of Jesse
A pilgrimage is when an individual travels to a place that has major religious significance to that person. In the Jewish religion, a pilgrim goes to Israel. A pilgrim...
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To Teach and Be Taught – A 30-Day Immersion Into Sichuanese Culture
When we first arrived in the village, our group set individual goals that we hoped to achieve over the span of the trip. I, being my modest self, vowed that I would both find a cure for allergies (since...
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How big is your backyard?
How big is your backyard? Before you answer with the actual size behind your house, I want to tell you it can be as big or small as you want it to be. Past our neighborhoods, past Orlando, and even...
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The old world
Italy: Day 1 After the 8 hour long, tedious journey from Austria to Venice, Italy, I stood up and I felt as if gravity was pushing my body down. The buildings look as if...
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Unique New York…. WHERES KEVIN!!!!!!
I love to travel; to me traveling is a relaxing and amazing experience. My whole life I have always wanted to go to New York. I don’t know if it is the big city lights or if it is all of the...
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Alaska 2012
The moments I spent in Alaska are some to always be told but not...
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California Gal Spreads her Wings!
As a French Language student at Palos Verdes High School, I was encouraged to sponsor an exchange student for a month during the summer of 2011. Amelie Lejeune was from Luxembourg and from...
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My Life Changing Trip to Kenya
I was anxious as I left my home for the airport. I didn’t know what to expect from my three month vacation to Kenya. I had gone on this trip to learn about my culture and understand about the...
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The Best Trip of My Life
In November of 2010 I visited New York City. That’s right; I went north (from sunny, warm Las Vegas) in the winter. It sounds like a crazy thing to do, but it was worth every one...
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Through Patience Comes Accomplishment
The altitude difference was definitely getting to me! The thin attenuated air was definitely becoming difficult to cope with, as I was a flatlander from down south in the States, and was surprised by...
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Philosophical in France
I’ve never felt small before. Despite being five feet tall and seventeen, living in the third largest state in the US, dwelling on a planet that is so often criticized as being insignificant...
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A Wave to the Presidents
A road trip to South Dakota did not seem ideal. My dad, a salesman, had multiple appointments in the state the summer before my sophomore year. I decided to join him in the chance that I would experience...
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Snorkeling in the Reef
July 24, 2009 started bright and early. That Friday morning, my family and I woke up just in time to watch the sun rise in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It resembled sunset, only the sun...
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My European Adventure
I remember the days as a child when my mom used to tell me bedtime stories about the various trips she took to Europe. Every trip that she took, she would bring me back a snow globe. Soon my room...
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Boring Ol’ Oklahoma…A Brand New State of Fun!
When my parents told me that we were going to Beavers Bend State Park in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, last summer, I wasn't too excited about it. I was thinking, “What fun can you...
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A Place Never Forgotten
Towering, white historical doors awaited us on the other side of the glass windows of the bus. Peace met us at the doors along with our tour guide. Two steps and there I was...
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Lessons From Tiananmen Square
Although nothing special at home, walking in a large group through China's streets, we Americans learned what it was like to be celebrities: people stopped in the middle of their daily activities...
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Uncharted. Unknown.
It was in third grade when my classmates and I learned in-depth about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. From learning about the foods that sustained them to the Native Americans that cared for them,...
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My Spectacularly Unspectacular Summer
Last summer I went on vacation with my family. Our trip was not some huge ordeal; instead, it was a trip to Utah in order to drop my brother, Taylor, off at BYU. On the way, and once we arrived,...
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Smell the Roses
Airplane food. Though often the butt of many an unfortunate joke, this scoffed-at cuisine stands alone in my mind, not because of its flavor or its lack thereof, but because of its sentimental value. That...
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Le Reve Francais!
The opportunity to attend school and live in the French Alps for a year was too good to pass up. By the time packing was finished and farewells...
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Footsteps in Argentina
I had a blast in Argentina meeting new people, experiencing new things, and learning about a different culture. First, my classmates and I went to Conte Hotel and checked in. Afterwards, my...
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March Of The Living
We visited Auschwitz, and saw rooms filled with shoes taken from the prisoners. I saw pictures of babies who were tortured and glass exhibits filled with human hair. We visited Treblinka, a camp completely...
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Gateway to the West: Legacy Revealed
Kansas City, Missouri: A city just about 4 hours drive from the incredible Gateway Arch in St Louis. A true city of The West. I had never been to the state of Missouri prior to this...
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Building character through judo
I stare with awe as I enter The Grand Amway Plaza Hotel with my dad and sister. As my eyes dart in all directions while I take in the hotel’s overwhelming size and grandeur, I laugh at how...
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Building Schools, Passing on Education, One Brick at a Time in Malawi Africa 2012
Did you know that 72 million children of primary school age in the developing world are not in school?! It shocked me because in America, every child has access to education. Due to my outstanding...
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The Five-Minus-Three People You Meet in Europe
Anxiety filled our spirits as we waited for the mail to arrive to our house. In two days, my mother and I would be flying across the Atlantic and our Eurail pass had not yet arrived. This pass would...
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Charleston, SC: A Journey Back In Time
When my mom announced travel plans to Charleston, mounds of negative things ran through my head. I contemplated “Why are we going to Charleston? South Carolina has the exact same...
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Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
“How do you see Cameroon?”, the natives would ask me. An entire countryside of peaks, hills, and divots, lathered in a patten of brilliant green and deep brown rendered words insufficient...
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A Well-Hidden Secret
Walking through the concrete roads, ignoring the shouts of the vendors surrounding me, and ducking around the leaking air conditioning from the apartment four floors up, I stepped out of one world and...
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DeVante Williams’ Trip to Washington, D.C.
Our trip to Washington, D.C. was one of the most memorable and informative family vacations we have ever taken because of all the fun and eye opening experiences. We visited the Lincoln Memorial,...
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First Trip in the United States of America
My family moved to the United States in 2007, indeed that was one of my exciting moments in my life. Before we moved to the United States, my family lived in a little valley on the countryside in...
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Exploring Europe During the EuroCup!
When I stepped through the automatic doors of the airport in Lisbon, (or Lisboa, pronounced Leesh-boa, to the locals!) I knew that a trip of a lifetime was about to begin. I had arrived in Portugal...
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The Knights In London
You mean me? In London for 12 days? And it’ll be only Raenell and I?
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Costa Rican Summer
Thirty passports, thirty exhilarated students, one AeroMexico plane (of course including the complimentary six hour layover in Mexico City), a yearlong awaited trip, and one month of total Costa...
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Lens Free (My Journey Through South Africa Without a Tourist’s Best Friend)
I lost my camera the moment we stepped foot in South Africa. This wasn’t an ideal start to my trip, especially since this was the Culver Academies 2012 Spring Break in Mission where our group...
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An Unfortunate Event Turned
Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day… I. Was. Devastated. Upon entering the KOA campgrounds, my family had high hopes of enjoying a lovely, once in every two...
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