Family Travel Tidbits and Tips
Odds and ends that are travel-related but not necessarily about family travel.
Video of the Week: Airport Travel with Children
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is using every avenue to reach potential passengers with information about getting through airport security checkpoints.
They are on Twitter as @TSABlogTeam, they have a blog (Evolution of Security) and they also have a TSA YouTube channel.
I thought they did a nice job with this 1.5 minute video about traveling with kids through security (for my RSS readers and anyone who can’t see the box below, the URL for the video is here.)
Date: December 29th, 2008 |
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Christmas ornaments around the world: International Edition
In the spirit of the holidays, here are some ornaments from our tree that remind me of family travel to all sorts of places outside the US (and here is the US version)
(Left photo) Ornaments depicting two parts of our lives: time spent living in Japan and time spent living in Europe (with trips to Paris, of course, …
Date: December 27th, 2008 |
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The Hawaii guidebook winner is….
(….and my apologies for not announcing this on Friday, December 12, 2008 as promised in the original Hawaii guidebook review/contest announcement post….hey, at some point my family HAD to deal with things like laundry, getting the Christmas tree and all that….)
Er, anyway, the winner as selected by the Sequence Generator at Random.org is Kara/Mountain Mama from the Traveling Mamas. 
Remember that fun audio interview I did with 3 of the 4 Mamas when we were all in Kansas City together?
I am glad that Random.org picks a comment number for me (it picked 3 and Kara …
Date: December 14th, 2008 |
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We have a NYC guidebook winner!
The winning comment for my copy of the Pauline Frommer New York City guidebook (chosen by a Random.org application) is….Heather from HeatherOnHerTravels!
She lives in Bristol, UK, but I certainly appreciate my international readers so of course I’ll ship prizes like this anywhere in the world.
Thanks to all for reading the post; the next one will be for Pauline Frommer’s guidebook to Hawaii.
I’m also going to review/give away Pauline’s Italy guidebook on the Perceptive Travel blog next week. Woo-hoo!
Date: December 5th, 2008 |
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Tried Priceline yet? We just did.
I know I sound like the last one to the party, but my husband and I just got a hotel room through Priceline and thought we’d share our experience….in case there are, what, 6 other people who’ve never tried bidding at a travel auction site.
I like to reach those niche readers
My husband Chris needed a cheap room midweek in November in Reno, Nevada for a teacher’s conference. It was late-breaking news that his school was sending him to the event, so we were looking for a room …
Date: November 26th, 2008 |
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Christmas ornaments around the world: US Edition
As a companion to yesterday’s post on international Christmas ornaments, here are some items from our tree that hail from around the United States:
(Left photo) The most instantly-recognizable symbol of St. Louis, Missouri is the soaring Gateway Arch, designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen. The city calls itself the “Gateway to the West,” …
Date: December 29th, 2008 |
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Win a $5000 HomeAway Getaway vacation
If you’re anything like me, you need a vacation after the winter “holidays” (and yeah, it isn’t much of a winter “break” either, is it?)
All of that running around, usually with at least a road trip thrown into the general insanity, if not a flight or two….and traveling with kids through TSA checkpoints = what fun!
What if you really could take a true vacation?
I’ve written here before about finding value in vacation home rentals through Ciao Bambino; depending on the property and …
Date: December 19th, 2008 |
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Win my copy of Pauline Frommer’s Hawaii guidebook
As I mentioned in my last guidebook giveaway (for Pauline Frommer’s New York City - the winner was Heather On Her Travels) I received 3 guidebooks to review and then launch to lucky readers.
Next up is Pauline Frommer’s Hawaii: Spend Less, See More.
As I’ve written before, I’ve always been a fan of the various Frommer’s travel guides, because they are budget-friendly, full of helpful details and info-packed sidebars, and they make a big effort to show people how to find local …
Date: December 9th, 2008 |
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Win my copy of Pauline Frommer’s New York City guidebook
Such a deal….I have copies of three of the newest books in the Pauline Frommer guidebook series “Spend Less See More” including New York City, Hawaii and Italy.
This week I’m going to post reviews of all of them, and give Family Travel Logue readers a chance to win each one. I’m an independent operator, but I use guidebooks extensively, especially when I travel with kids. My time is unfortunately limited, and I want a …
Date: December 1st, 2008 |
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Great Travel Links for 24 Nov 2008
Some travel news and ideas from around the Web:
Big family travel news these days in Washington, DC: the National Museum of American History, one of the most popular of the Smithsonian museums, reopened November 21 after an extensive renovation. Read the glowing reports about it on National Geographic Traveler’s Intelligent Travel blog and on Jaunted. A new Capitol Visitor’s Center will open December 2, 2008, to better welcome the 3 million visitors per year who pour into the domed edifice.
Budget Travel’s “This Just In” blog has published another one of their great menu decoders/translators: this one …
Date: November 24th, 2008 |
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