Posts Tagged ‘family’

Travel Guide:My top 3 family travel secrets

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.Which places in the world are not as well known (nothing is really a “secret”) for fun travel with kids?
I was recently tagged to answer this question by the globe-trotting SoulTravelers3, in a blog post about her family’s travel secrets.
The whole meme was started

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Travel Information:Happy Fourth Birthday, Dear Blog

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Today is the 4th anniversary of the Family Travel blog here on the BootsnAll Travel Network.  True story - this blog is here because of books.
I first heard about BootsnAll from Stephanie Elizondo Griest on a travel writer’s panel at the stupendously great annual Texas Book

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World Travel Guide:Looking back at Dr Pepper, the Little House and London Calling

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.I love poking around in my archive attic, especially with this blog’s 4th Anniversary coming up in February 2010….
A year ago on the Family Travel Guide, we had fun talking about:
***  Sugar overload at the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, TX
***  Nautical fun in Norfolk, VA
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Travel Guide:My travel goal: one new local place or event per month

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.I don’t know about you, but I’ve kinda run out of travel gas.
Not for me (I’ll jump onto a plane or into a car anytime by my own crotchety self) but the idea of a family trip these days makes me want to lay down and take a nap.
Squabbling siblings in the back seat.
One kid [...]

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World Travel Guides:We have a new Facebook Fan Page

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.The Family Travel Guide has a new Facebook Fan Page; it’s one of the ways we’re working with the BootsnAll Travel Network to get the word out about this blog (which will celebrate its 4th bloggy birthday on February 10, 2010 - can you believe it?!)
Right now the Page is

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Travel Information:Photo of the Week: rather massive brownies at Rather Sweet Bakery

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas. I know, it’s food overload this time of year, but how can you miss when it’s slab-sized brownies?
These are from the Rather Sweet Bakery in German-tinged Fredericksburg, Texas.
It’s tucked behind the historic building where Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz was born,

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Travel Guide:What Lies Beneath? Intriguing Cold War online exhibit from Britain’s Imperial War Museum

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Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.A recent letter from one of my readers led me to a terrific “online exhibition” about British experiences in the Cold War - it is very well done and would be suitable for tweens and teens, whether they’re on a trip to the UK or not….
From reader Tom:
“Hi

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World Travel Guides:Ask Baratunde: Off the beaten path NYC restaurants

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Find information before your trip from quality travel guides, travel reviews and travel articles on Asia, Europe, Australia and all destinations around the world.Oh, Twitter, you are so much fun!
Tonight I noticed that tech-savvy comedian and raconteur Baratunde Thurston as @Baratunde was holding an “open question session” on Twitter (where I’m @SheilaS) ….for about an hour you could ask him a question about anything,

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Travel Guide:Travel now, before your teen says “buzz off”

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.I love my kids, but there is a 7-year age difference between my 17-year-old and my 10-year-old, and that makes all of that family bonding a little rough (I had each child on Navy shore duty assignments, and there was a 7 year stretch at sea between pregnancies. Kinda into planning….that’s

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World Travel Guide:Twitter Lists of family travel bloggers

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.Those of you who are on Twitter may wonder how you can find other “tweeple” who enjoy travel and like to tweet about it.   The “Find People” search function on Twitter is notoriously inaccurate,  so finding like-minded travel fans is not always a simple task.A

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