How To Plan Vacations With Senior Family Members
If you're planning a vacation with an elderly or mobility impaired family member, these helpful tips will reduce the stress of your trip.If you're planning a vacation with an elderly or mobility...
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Duck Beach, North Carolina
For Memorial Day weekend I took a spontaneous weekend trip to Duck Beach in North Carolina. My roommate Louise, who is from Denmark, begged and pleaded with me to go with her to this gathering of young...
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Summer Fun Requires Safe Play Rules
Review the Consumer Product Safety Commission's tips for summer safety to keep your kids happy and healthy.For many Americans, summer means fun in the sun. The kids are out of school, adults...
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Finding Healthy Dining Alternatives On The Road
Plan ahead and you can carry tasty road food snacks, and find hotels and restaurants that serve balanced and healthy meals to both kids and adults. In the midst of today's organic movement,...
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Indiana’s Holiday World
Take your preschoolers on a long summer weekend to Indiana to savor the kindest, gentlest theme park in the central US. "I'm thirsty!" Gabby, my 5-year old complains. The day we visited
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Hudson Valley Weekend Getaways In Dutchess County New York
Take advantage of the sightseeing, outdoor activities, and scenery the Hudson River Valley offers on a weekend getaway just a few hours from major cities. Many families living in the New York -...
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The Place Curious George Calls Home
Try Waterville Valley, New Hampshire for family fun in the White Mountains and learn about one of the most treasured children's book charactersTry Waterville Valley, New Hampshire for family fun in...
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Hardwork in Mexico
Travel is a luxury reserved for only those wealthy enough to...
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Tanzania Safaris, Destinations you must not miss.
Africa is home of safaris in the world but a visit to Tanzania crowns it all! With all the wildlife it has to offer, i award it as the most interesting safari destination in Africa. Places...
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New Brunswick Attractions
With ocean bordering three sides, this Canadian province of New Brunswick is filled with maritime fun and adventures ranging from whale-watching to leaving footprints on the ocean floor.First settled...
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Family of 4 at Top Denver Hotel from $219 per night, Fun Included
Denver's JW Marriott is offering a Family Fun Package providing your family with VIP treatment at this made-for-VIPs...
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CMT Music Awards Nominations Celebration
Last night a co-worker and I were invited to attend the nominations party for the upcoming CMT Country Music Awards. From what I gather from my first couple of weeks living in New York City, most people...
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Family Attractions In Jacksonville, Florida
From art to history to outdoor fun, discover all the great things to do in this vibrant city in northeastern Florida.Jacksonville, Florida is more than a day at the beach. 22 miles of sand and...
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The Big Island with Little Ones
Is Hawaii still fun for kids? One family retraces its grandparents' steps and their toddler's adventures tell all. Hawai'i, or the Big Island as it's fondly known, was...
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Akumal: The Yucatan’s Playground
Join the Crespi/Sparks clan on their first vacation abroad as they experience the natural and historical wonders of Mexico's Yucatan coastline in the beach village of Akumal.The...
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A Parisian Sans Her Cardigan
It was Bastille Day weekend in Paris, and I had just finished watching the national parade on the Champs Elysées. My roommate from the study trip, Ashley, stood next to me with...
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Pre-Schoolers Love San Francisco, California
San Francisco is an urban paradise when it comes to family-friendly activities. Toddlers can take in the sights, enjoy the great outdoors and maybe learn something, too.The spirit of family fun...
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Holland by Barge, With Infant
This journal chronicles one of our last trips from Rotterdam, where we lived on a restored barge in the Old Harbor with our daughter Em, now almost...
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Efteling Park And Golden Tulip Efteling Hotel, Holland
For a fairy-tale family adventure in the Netherlands, visit Eftling Park and the Golden Tulip Efling Hotel in Kaatsheuvel. Fairy tale forests and gnarly little gnomes rub shoulders with white-knuckle...
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My best trip
In my 21 years old, Now I can say that I have traveled a lot but not enough. My last trip was made to another dimension. I ventured to another country to get my victory and reach one of my biggest...
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10 years in Germany
Approximately 21,660 minutes 361 hours or 15.146 days spent in the air for the first 17 years of my life. Most of this time was spent on flights to Germany and back to San Francisco (SFO) or Oakland...
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A Year in an Insane Asylum
At the conclusion of my four years of study as an undergraduate piano major at the University of Southern California, my instructor summoned for me privately and suggested that I spend the following...
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Wild Trip to Africa
Africa, home of the wild! June 11, we boarded British Airways for Africa. Two days later, we arrived at Entebbe, Uganda, airport. There were six of us: my older sister Mikka and her mother Carol, Mikka’s...
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Music, Food, and Love of Voluntourism
I opened my car door and was overwhelmed with delicious smells and lively music. I was in New Orleans. My friends and I had decided to take a ‘voluntourism’ trip for our spring break. What...
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The Continuation of Ginxy’s Adventure in Japan!
It’s funny how life works. The things you do not want to happen or try avoiding somehow happens anyway. I dislike getting lost on my own. I have a tendency to memorize one path and stick to it....
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The Magic of Boston and Cape Cod
On the night of August 5th, 2009, my friend Patil and I, Starbucks at hand, were waiting to board the train. Magic was brewing.
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Hot Springs Hike
My trip to the hot springs near Apple Valley, CA. was amazing! We first drove for a few hours, from Palomar College in San Marcos, CA. It was an ESO (environmental) club trip. My professor and friend...
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A Journey of Song
This was it. The moment I’d been waiting for! I took one step at a time as I ascended the red carpet stairs. My dress shimmered and sparkled as the movement of my feet ruffled the soft fabric...
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Why I fell in love with RIO
After completing a 8-week internship abroad through IAESTE for an architecture firm in Londrina, Brazil, I had about a month left to travel before my flight back to...
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Metatlonoc, a Hungry Driven Town
Young and curious, I smiled at the children that gave me the preciously wrapped chiclets. I loved the minty savor...
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The Beauty of Ecuador
Ever dream of traveling? Me too. In fact, before experiencing Ecuador, I had never even ventured outside of North America. Hadn’t been in a plane before, either. And then this exceptional journey...
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The Weekend of my Life
It was bright and early on a Saturday morning when I woke up for our road trip from St. Louis to Chicago. The sun had yet to rise and the birds yet to sing; but I was already dedicated to the epic...
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Wide Open Spaces with My Lifelong Best Friend; My Mom
The greatest trip of anyone’s life is the day they were born. The problem is that most of us do not remember. I know that on the day I was born it started the greatest journey I shall...
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Working with Catalyst Foundation in Viet Nam
I arrived in Saigon in Mid-August of 2007. I could feel the wave of humid air wash over me as our plane descended into Ho Chi Minh City International Airport. As the...
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The Beginning of Ginxy’s Journey in Japan!
I knew it was a sign for me to go to Japan. As I was heading to my Government class I saw a flyer that said STUDY ABROAD IN JAPAN! I was like, “whoa back up!”, so I backed peddled and picked...
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Middle East Excursion 2010
In March of 2010 I had the great luck to journey to the Middle East and visit Jordan, while acting as a group leader for the student exchange organization Middle East Excursion, along with nineteen...
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Queen of the Adriatic
It is our first night in Innsbruck, Austria, yet the Michigan Ambassadors of Music must retire early, for tomorrow is our trip to Venice, Italy. We wake up early, excited for our day.Showers...
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El Camino de Santiago
After living in Spain for five months I came home with memories of many adventures, having explored such amazing places as Barcelona, Sevilla, Segovia, and Madrid. However...
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Madeira: The Pearl of the Atlantic
Usually I would not be excited if there were clumps of dirt on my food. Not so in Madeira. Dirty food was actually a good thing. Well, in the case of bananas...
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Raleigh, North Carolina
In the words of Miriam Beard, “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” My family’s...
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What Ireland has to offer
When I decided to do my study abroad in Ireland, I have to admit that I knew next to nothing about what I was getting myself into. I had heard the stereotypical statements about Ireland and its people...
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Getting to the Heart of Australia
Ask most Americans about Australia, and their minds fill with images of the Sydney Opera House, beaches,...
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Family Trip to Mackinac Island
Last September, my family and I took a trip to Mackinac Island www.mackinac.com. This was not our first trip to the island, but this time it was extraordinarily...
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Mexico as I never saw it before
For the first time in my life, my eyes were opened to the intense and unimaginable world of poverty when I traveled to Mexico two years ago. My mother and I had vacationed in Mexico many times, but...
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Trip to Pittsburgh
The greatest trip of my life was not to an exotic foreign country, or some hidden grotto of locale color. The best trip I have ever taken involved a simple...
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Welcome Home
There are hand-painted signs outside the main gate of the ranch. "Welcome Home" one reads. "It Can Be This Way Always" states another. Those were indeed curious signs that I can't say I really understood...
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A Simple Beauty
I was 15 when my cousin fell in love with an Englishman. They planned the wedding and set the date for August...
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Exchange to Italy
Last year, I got accepted to travel to Italy through the Rotary Youth Exchange Short Term Program. The program consists of you choosing a country you want to travel to from a list of countries. The...
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