Making Family Travel an Adventure
I recently had the opportunity to be a part of a video shoot for Family Travel with Colleen Kelly in Baltimore at the National Aquarium. Colleen’s new PBS series kicks off in September so she was in town filming a whole bunch of segments for the episode on Baltimore. I “met” Colleen over Twitter maybe a year ago, so I [...]
It’s been very hot here in Washington, DC, as in 90-plus degrees every day for the last couple of weeks. On Saturday it even hit 100 degrees. Not exactly camping weather, huh? Despite the fact that I’m not exactly an avid camper, I took my girls, Clare and Kate (ages 8 & 7), camping. Yup, I went all by myself [...]
The weather has been great here so I’ve been thinking a lot about hiking. Now that my oldest two daughters are seven and eight years old this is the perfect time to get them out on the trails. Just a few more weeks until soccer season is over and we’ll have a lot more flexibility on the weekends to get [...]
I was on a flight home from Orlando over the weekend and while flipping through Washington Flyer magazine, I spotted a blurb on the KidSpy Overnight program at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. It seems like new, fun overnight programs for kids keep popping up, so I thought I’d re-visit this topic with seven new overnight adventures for [...]
I recently read this article about a Green Bay mom who took her kids out of school this year to take them on a nine-month journey to explore all 50 state capitals. She and her husband will be driving to 48 of the capitals and homeschooling their threesome along the way. They’ll finish up their trip with flights to Alaska [...]
Sure, you can sign up for a Day Out with Thomas at Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania or at various venues across the country, but why not take your kids to any one of the train and railroad museums that dot the country so they can learn about the history of real trains over the years. Here are five museums worth [...]
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