Posts Tagged ‘road trip’

Travel Information:Driving backroads beats the tar out of the Interstate

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Those who drive long stretches of most US Interstate highways know that, while you’ll get there faster and there might be some good places to pull off, it will be a mostly boring trip. Fast, efficient, but boring. If you decide to jump off on a backroad (see William Least Heat-Moon’s

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World Travel Guides:Family travel in South 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 Tuesday 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

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World Travel:Helen Keller’s story: the “Miracle Worker” at Ivy Green

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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.There are only a few days left to see it, if you’re near Tuscumbia in northwest Alabama before July 11…. 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,

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Travel Guide:The annual search for bank robber Sam Bass

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Part of the annual Round Rock, Texas Frontier Days July 4 celebration is a fun costumed reenactment of the 1878 Sam Bass Shootout. The infamous bank robber Sam Bass was fatally shot by lawmen in Round Rock, and his name is plastered on things all over town including my son’s

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Travel Guides:Family travel in South Dakota: the 50 state series

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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.Every Tuesday 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

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World Travel Guides:The Vacation Departure Maniac

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.I’m a holy terror before we leave on vacation. That’s because I want to leave a tidy house (Beds made! Vacuumed! Light timers prepped!) the fridge cleaned out, cat & fish sitters covered, everything packed properly and not just jammed into suitcases, car cleaned before

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Travel Guides:Family Travel in Utah: the 50 state series

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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.Every Tuesday 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

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World Travel:A one-tank Tennessee and Alabama budget road trip

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.(This Southeast Bargain Loop post is a guest contribution by budget travel expert Tim Leffel; he’s a Nashville resident when he’s not traveling with his family in Mexico and Belize.) In these tight economic times, here’s a one-gas-tank family road trip loop that

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