Posts Tagged ‘road trip’

Online Travel Guide:Local favorite: Monument Cafe in Georgetown, TX

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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.The Monument Cafe is located right off of the very attractive courthouse square town center in Georgetown, Texas (just north of Austin.)
It’s a restaurant that looks all curvy and Art Deco but was really purpose-built and is quite modern in sensibility, including free WiFi and

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World Travel Guide:I am driving, so HAH!

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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.My next trip is by car, not by plane.
We can wear what we want (no one’s shoes will blow up our vehicle….other than via foul sneaker odors.)
We can take GIANT containers of liquid.
We can adjust the temperature so we don’t freeze or boil, and if we do get cold, we

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World Travel Guide:Family travel in Missouri: 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 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 plus the territories, taking input mostly from Twitter and Facebook.
Yes, I know how to search for travel ideas on a destination

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World Travel Guides:Good food in the Shenandoah: Brookside Restaurant in Luray VA

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.I’m warning you, the sweet potato fries here are embarrassingly addictive.
We’d just popped off of Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park near Luray, Virginia and were looking for a local restaurant for a late lunch when we passed a group of cabins tucked next to

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World Travel Guide:How to take your first road trip with a newborn baby

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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’m thrilled to report that Sean Keener, the CEO of BootsnAll (the travel network that hosts this blog) and his wife just welcomed their new son Kai into the world.
Here’s his announcement tweet about it, which of course made me bawl.
They’ll probably be thinking

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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.
NJ Movers provides NYC moving services for residential and commercial clients in New York, New Jersey, and California.

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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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