Travels with My Dad: A Father-Daughter Bonding Trip Through Southern Africa
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An Education in Volcanology in Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park
YASNY! You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
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A story on Thessaloniki and Halkidiki, Greece
Snow Mountain Ranch
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Snow Mountain Ranch brings families closer together in the great outdoors