Posts Tagged ‘road trip’

World Travel:See the Miracle Worker performed at Helen Keller’s Ivy Green

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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.Your annual June reminder if you’re anywhere near Tuscumbia in northwest Alabama….
Every summer at Ivy Green, the birthplace of the amazing author, speaker and writer Helen Keller, there is a professional outdoor production of The Miracle Worker, William Gibson’s drama

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World Travel Guides:Finding the best iPhone and iPad apps for kids

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.I know, I know….the kids should simply “look out the window at the scenery” on trips….like we did, right?
(Did you cringe the first time that phrase came out of your mouth as a parent?  Did you think, OMG what Old Geezer thing will I say next - “We walked five miles

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World Travel Guides:Family travel in New Jersey: the 50 state series

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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.Every week or so until we run out of states, I’ll be posting about family-friendly vacation ideas, attractions and events in each one of the US states, taking input mostly from Twitter and Facebook.
Yes, I know how to search for travel ideas on a destination or attraction Web site,

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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: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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Travel Information:Family travel in New Mexico: the 50 state series

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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.I took a 50 state series hiatus there for awhile, but we’re back! Until we run out of states, I’ll be posting about family-friendly vacation ideas, attractions and events in each one of the US states, taking input mostly from Twitter and Facebook. Yes, I know how to search

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World Travel Guides:A Route 66 Oklahoma landmark: Johnnie’s onion burger in El Reno

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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.While blasting north through Oklahoma enroute a speaking engagement, I saw on my map that I was passing through tiny El Reno, OK (located on historic Route 66.) The town has three different places listed in one of my favorite references, Jane and Michael Stern’s Roadfood. I

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World Travel:Photo of the Week: Fun but icky Colonial medicine at Yorktown

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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.Nothing like a semi-gory discussion of 1700’s battlefield medical procedures to make kids appreciate the simple comforts of a modern FluMist squirt. At the Yorktown Victory Center in Virginia, there are all sorts of kid-friendly demonstrations like this one on Colonial-era doctoring,

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World Travel Guide:Family travel in North Carolina: the 50 state series

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Every week until we run out of states, I plan to post about family-friendly vacation ideas, attractions and events in each one of the US states, taking input mostly from Twitter and Facebook. Yes, I know how to search for travel ideas on a destination or attraction Web site, but a

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Travel Information:Kansas Underground Salt Museum: the tornadoes can’t get you here

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.You won’t believe what’s going on 650 feet underneath those Kansas wheat fields (about the height of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis from top to bottom.)
It only takes 70 seconds going straight down an elevator shaft to see one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas.A mining museum 

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