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Discussion, opinion and Big Picture on travel with kids and family.
Got a passport? I have a purpose for it….
I want to call your attention to a worthy project that four of my travel blogging colleagues are spearheading this holiday season.
Passports with Purpose seeks to raise awareness of the travel blogging community and its generosity towards the places we travel.
You might know some of the organizers:
Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby
Pam Mandel of Nerd’s Eye View (who is also my co-presenter at the March 2009 travel blogging panel at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) tech conference
Michelle Duffy, …
Date: December 1st, 2008 |
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Tourism experts who understand the Web: Philadelphia PA
Today I’d like to acknowledge a tourism organization that “gets it” when it comes to online presence and Web 2.0/social media savvy. I’m talking about the fine folks who want you to visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Look, if your destination is crummy for family travel, I’m not recommending it no matter how great you are on blogs or on Twitter. The good news is that I’m happy to recommend Philadelphia because it is stuffed with things for families to do. …
Date: September 23rd, 2008 |
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If you have nothing good to say about U.S. travel, come sit by me
I am disgusted.
I am a U.S. traveler with multiple transportation options, and most of them are awful.
After a week spent flying from Texas to Virginia to Chicago back to Texas, my verdict is official - air travel is simply wretched. Unless you have the money to decamp to first class, which …
Date: May 8th, 2008 |
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Your savior on long car trips
Yes, we buckled under and got a backseat DVD player in our minivan….so shoot me for not playing the License Plate Game and other more creative car games, but boy does a movie keep the squabbling siblings quiet!
The only problem is that too many hours of looking at a small moving screen in a gently moving vehicle gets at least one of my kids mildly carsick.
Here’s another idea that I found on the tech site Mashable to keep your little darlings occupied — downloadable audio books from AudibleKids.
From the Mashable post:
“The new site, called AudibleKids, has …
Date: March 31st, 2008 |
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A year ago this week in Family Travel
Now that I’ve been blogging here for well over a year, I’ve built up a nice little archive. It’s fun to go back in there, shove things aside and poke around.
I wrote a post last October that rings true today: Slow Travel & Getting Local This Fall.
It’s easy to get into too much of a rush to “pack it all in” when we travel, and one way to avoid that is to get out there and investigate your own backyard.
Draw a two-hour-drive circle around your hometown and see what falls into it, then …
Date: October 9th, 2007 |
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Thinking about poverty on Blog Action Day
On a day when I’m in New York to cover a major Condé Nast Traveler event on Twitter, I want to take a moment to think about something totally different….poverty in the U.S.
What brought this on?
It’s Blog Action Day, which is
“….an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.”
You can also keep up with everyone’s efforts today by following the Blog Action Day …
Date: October 15th, 2008 |
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Tight travel budget? Another world awaits you
Now, bear with me here.
My Mom already thinks the whole blogging thing is a little “out there,” so I can imagine what she and probably many of my Family Travel readers will think about me gallivanting off to travel through a world that doesn’t really exist.
I’ve just spent several hours over the course of yesterday and today on my computer, running around in the Second Life virtual world, dressed up as a punkish Goth avatar named …
Date: July 20th, 2008 |
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Family Travel and Rolf Potts on taking kids to Ecuador
The excellent travel website World Hum has a regular column called “Ask Rolf,” by talented travel writer Rolf Potts.
Haven’t heard of him?
Browse the Stories or Essays section of his Web site, or see how he makes an ancient French version of tennis into something interesting.
He’s also the guy who convinced me to visit his stomping grounds, the Flint Hills in Kansas, which was one …
Date: April 14th, 2008 |
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Happy 2nd Birthday to the Family Travel Blog
I wrote the first post for the Family Travel blog two years ago today. I was still on active duty with the US Navy and had no idea what it meant to be a writer, but I was sure planning to figure it out.
Two years later I have an elevator speech: “I’m a writer and blogger, specializing in travel, motorsports and Web 2.0/social media,” but so much of what I am today …
Date: February 10th, 2008 |
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Literary travel with kids
Welcome to Banned Books Week; even if some think it’s hype, I think it’s worthy of note.
How about some literary travel in honor of the occasion?
It’s sometimes easier to appreciate a writer in his or her home, not just from reading their works. Here is a list of U.S. author-related places where you can take your kids:
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Date: October 3rd, 2007 |
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