Staycations

Who wants to go to Italy?  The better question might be, who doesn’t want to go to Italy?  But Covid-19 is still making a visit to …

Coming up with gift ideas for the dads in our lives is really hard, isn’t it? My husband in particular seems to know how to …

One of the few bright spots in the past 10 months is that families have been spending more time exploring —and newly appreciating — their …

Around this time every May, I get a press release from AAA predicting how many cars will hit the road for Memorial Day weekend. This …

Some movies transport you to a different place for two hours. When you’re done watching, you look up and are surprised to find yourself in …

One of our favorite ways to conjure memories of a favorite vacation is to make some of the foods we discovered away from home, ideally …

With summer coming and everyone needing to get outdoors as soon as possible, I thought I would pay tribute that to amusement park classic, the …

Everybody wants to bake bread these days. As our Covid semi-quarantine rounds on a full year we all crave things that are unique and a …

Books have both inspired and informed a lot of my travels. And they’ve taken me places I haven’t been and might never go. I’ve gained …

Nearly every city has a children’s museum. They can save parents’ sanity when it’s too cold, too hot or too rainy to take your energy-filled …

On any city vacation we take, admission fees to museums and other cultural institutions are one of our biggest expenses. For art, history and even …

Updated July 2021 with new trail rides. I love bicycle riding. From the moment we began teaching Tiny Traveler to ride a two-wheeler I have …

Staycations at home need as much planning as away vacations, or in fact, maybe even a little more. You’re in your comfort zone, in familiar …

Updated march 2020 Following two exotic trips over the winter (Guadeloupe and Senegal), plus spring break jaunt to Pittsburgh, we opted to be relatively frugal …

Updated March 2020 My family doesn’t put its traveling shoes in storage when our travel budget shrinks or the odd pandemic prevents us from taking …

Updated November 2020 I love books. So do my husband and my daughter. We use fiction and non-fiction books to learn about places we visit. …

There’s always one week of summer where everyone is home from camp and work but we aren’t going away. We need things to do so …

Theme parks are go-to vacation destinations for some families and places to avoid at all costs for others. But if you have kids, you’ll wind up spending …