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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.Although significant travel events have been a bit scarce around here lately, mine is a road-tripping family at heart.
Whenever it’s time to plan one, there are a few guidebooks that I turn to again and again, because they are well-edited, accurate and it’s easier to skim

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.In my tourism training hat, people often ask me about the utility of location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare.
Here’s an example of why they’re so handy….
I was speaking in Houston at the TFEA (Texas Festivals and Events Association) annual conference,

An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.So, is it the “summer of suck” in your house like it has been in mine?
There have been all kinds of work-related opportunities and good news for the adults under our roof – extensive teacher training for my husband, speaking gigs for me, oldest daughter moving into

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

Find information before your trip from quality travel guides, travel reviews and travel articles on Asia, Europe, Australia and all destinations around the world.If you’ve dismissed hostels as exclusively for the single, young, party-hearty sort, you may wish to reconsider.
Some hostels have private rooms for families, rather than the dorm-style accommodations that singles use, and you sure can’t beat the price.
I’m going

An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.(This is a guest post by Sherry Ott, from her recent trip via MegaBus. I’ve been curious about these newer budget bus services, so I asked for her reactions. Thanks, Sherry!)
Travel on the US East Coast has changed.  “Taking the bus” is no longer looked down upon; in fact,

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

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.Are your kids like mine – often with some sort of headphone or earbud plugged into their aural sockets?  Take advantage of that tendency by looking for available iPod/audio guides and tours when you travel.  Kids can keep looking plugged-in and “cool” but may actually

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.I just finished a post over on my Sheila’s Guide to the Good Stuff blog, about why tourism organizations might want to hold off using one of those neat pocket video cameras that shoot in HD (high definition) unless they have access to some rather sophisticated editing software

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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