Travels with My Dad: A Father-Daughter Bonding Trip Through Southern Africa
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]umping along the highway, strapped into my seat aboard the tour group’s converted truck, I was marveling at my surroundings. Flame red desert dunes rose on the horizon and ostriches loped along in the distance as a deep blue African sky stretched straight up to heaven.[quote align=’right’]Sitting in front of our cabana, we gazed out […]
Circle the Wagons in the Badlands of Alberta, Canada
Move over Billy Crystal and wannabe cattle rustlers of City Slickers fame, Wagon Train Vacations offer roll ‘em on family fun and sleep-under-the-stars romance.
Cosmic Family Vacation
10, 9, 8, 7…. As blast-off for family vacation gets closer, you may want to think “out of this world.” Space travel, to earth orbit and beyond, is opening a whole new chapter of commercial tourism
Houseboating on Lake Powell
The car came to a stop throwing up dust on the dirt parking lot. It had been a 10-hour drive from San Diego and I could hear the complaining before the doors even opened. Out of the hot car poured my young cousins: Matt, a typical hard-to-please 15-year-old; Charlie, a 10-year-old always buried in a […]
Unexpected Joys of Family Travel to D-Day Beaches of France
As France this year commemorates the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy and the Liberation of France from German Occupation during WWII, Normandy is likely to move up a few notches on Dad’s and Grandpa’s bucket lists. But why let them have all the fun? Normandy is a destination with a surprising […]
Trail of Tears
Nine States: A Multiude of Options
Stalking the Ghost of Copernicus
John M. Edwards stalks the heretical ghost of Polish astronomer Nicholaus Copernicus back to his hometown: Torun, Poland.
Volcanoes National Park: Big Hawaii
An Education in Volcanology in Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park
YASNY! You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
A story on Thessaloniki and Halkidiki, Greece
Snow Mountain Ranch
Snow Mountain Ranch brings families closer together in the great outdoors