Tag: Family Travel
Sailor Girl
by Cullen Thomas | 02.05.09 | 8:54 AM ET
Photo by Edie Platt Cullen Thomas considered his mission -- joining his mother on a perilous sea -- a noble one. But he presumed too much.
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Yahoo! BuzzMorning Links: Weird Hotels, Flight 1549: The Game and More
by Michael Yessis | 02.03.09 | 8:24 AM ET
- Marketplace looks at U.S. efforts to lure Chinese travelers.
- More than one million people have already played Flight 1549: The online game.
- Flight 1549 pilot Chesley B. Sullenberger III won’t have to pay fees on the library book that’s still in the plane’s cargo hold.
- At the Window Seat, World Hum contributor Rolf Potts recommends five travel experiences in his home state, Kansas.
- AP Travel Editor Beth Harpaz has a new book out about parenting teenagers, 13 Is the New 18.
- Now we know what the penalty is for smoking on a no smoking flight in Saudi Arabia: 30 lashes.
- Rome’s traditional delis are facing extinction.
- More and more, Mexican singers of narco corridos are becoming victims of the drug-related violence that’s the subject of their songs.
- The Telegraph’s slideshow of the world’s weirdest hotels includes Idaho’s Dog Bark Park Inn.
- It’s the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, and fans are paying tribute in Holly’s hometown of Lubbock, Texas and elsewhere. Eva
will havehas more in her blog. - Video: Overzealous Amtrak police arrested a man for taking pictures of trains for an Amtrak photography contest. Stephen Colbert has the hilarious story.
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Walking in a Winter Wonderland
by Sophia Dembling | 01.16.09 | 10:36 AM ET
Photo by Sophia Dembling I live in Texas and every now and then I get nostalgic for real winters. “I miss snow,” I’ll say to my husband, who grew up in Illinois and knows from snow.
And he always says the same thing: “That’s because you never had to shovel a driveway.”
Yes, OK. I grew up in a New York City apartment and now live where snow is here today, gone today. We do get it once or twice a year, but it rarely sticks more than a few hours. Snowmen in Dallas are a tragic sight, as much mud and leaves as snow. Still, hard as it may be to believe during this cold snap we’re having, I like traveling to where I can enjoy real snow. I’m no skier, but I like watching snow fall, walking in it, and sitting inside being warm on a snowy day. (I’m always game for an excuse to sit on a couch.)
More Family Lanes Coming to Airport Security Lines
by Jim Benning | 11.13.08 | 1:36 PM ET
They’ll be in every airport security checkpoint in the nation by Thanksgiving. Oh, if the pilgrims could see us now.
Sesame Street, Global Edition
by Joanna Kakissis | 10.17.08 | 1:59 PM ET
When I heard Big Bird and South Africa’s muppet Zikwe talking to NPR about Putumayo Kids’ “Sesame Street Playground” album this weekend, I couldn’t help feeling jealous that I hadn’t grown up hearing songs like “Rubber Duckie” in Mandarin. The 40-year-old dean of all children’s shows now airs in 120 countries, and the new album showcases its worldwide reach.
There are songs from Israel, Palestine, Tanzania, South Africa, France, China, Russia, Mexico, the Netherlands, India and the United States. Concierge is especially fond of the “Pollution Song” from South Africa: a ditty about cleaning up after yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone in the world sang along to that?
Susan Sessions Rugh: ‘The Golden Age of American Family Vacations’
by Elyse Franko | 07.17.08 | 12:19 PM ET
Elyse Franko asks the author of "Are We There Yet?" about the rise and fall of the family vacation, segregation in travel and how family trips are changing today
My Senegalese Cousin, the Rice-Loving Pig
by Katie Krueger | 07.15.08 | 11:53 AM ET
Photo by Katie Krueger. When the woman selling peanuts at a Samba Dia market learned the Senegalese name adopted by Katie Krueger, negotiations took an insulting turn
Moose and Midnight Sunsets: A Father-Son Drive up the Alaska-Canadian Highway
by Eva Holland | 07.07.08 | 12:00 PM ET
Fifty years ago, Roger Norum’s father and grandfather drove the Alaska-Canadian Highway from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Fairbanks, Alaska. In this Guardian essay, Norum and his father re-create the trip—and drive each other just a little crazy in the process. It’s a fun read.
Photo by stevelyon via Flickr (Creative Commons)
Travel with Kids: How to Face the Museum in Summer
by Eva Holland | 06.26.08 | 10:43 AM ET
Emily Bazelon admits that she’s not one for exposing her kids to heavy cultural programming on vacation—most of the time. But, she writes in Slate’s summer vacation special issue, “on this particular Sunday, I was also feeling the prick of inadvertent peer pressure: a friend’s offhand comment that her kids had been to the FDR Memorial more times than she could count. Whereas mine had been there never.” The resulting field trip has mixed results—and Bazelon shares some lessons learned in her essay.
The Procession of Black Hats
by Jonathan Levin | 06.13.08 | 12:52 PM ET
Jonathan Levin hadn't lived up to his father's expectations. But when he moved to Mexico City, he was told something he thought he'd never hear.
Baby on Board, Baby Abroad
by Frank Bures | 04.09.08 | 4:05 PM ET
Frank Bures ruminates on the art of travel with kids and the guidebooks aimed at helping parents through the experience
I Plan to Take My 9-Year-Old Daughter to Ecuador. Is it Safe? Any Tips?
by Rolf Potts | 04.08.08 | 11:55 AM ET
Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel
Under the Banyan Tree
by Adam Karlin | 02.04.08 | 11:34 AM ET
Photo by Adam Karlin. The dictators call it Myanmar. For the first time since they crushed the Saffron Revolution, Adam Karlin traveled to the country he calls Burma -- and home.
The Mystery of Grandma’s Travel Photos
by Michael Yessis | 12.26.07 | 5:14 PM ET
Here’s a sweet tale to stoke any post-Christmas family travel buzz you might have: Inspired by three albums of cryptic travel photos her grandmother passed down, Patricia Morrisroe dives into her family’s past and traces the roots of her own wanderlust. “As for future generations,” she writes in Travel+Leisure, “if my grandmother had purposely set out to frustrate them with the photo albums, she couldn’t have done a better job.”
Beyond The Nuclear Family: Single Parent Holidays On Offer
by Eva Holland | 11.28.07 | 9:37 AM ET
We all know how tough it can be traveling with kids, and these days it only seems to be getting tougher. But how about trying it without a co-pilot? In an article in the Times of London, Jane Owen lists non-profit organizations and travel agencies that offer custom-designed holidays, discounts or other opportunities to single parents and their children. The offerings range from ways to dodge single room supplements to full-on group holidays, where the theory is “that if single parent families eat together and play together, the parents will be more relaxed and the children will have more fun.”
More American Familes Taking Year-Long Global Trips
by Joanna Kakissis | 11.08.07 | 5:07 PM ET
Photo by babasteve via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
Well-traveled children often turn out to be more empathetic, open-minded and creative adults. We’ve written about how parents are increasingly taking their infants and toddlers on trips abroad and how parents are lighting a spark of wanderlust through imaginative travel books. Now more families are taking a year off work, school and soccer practice to travel the globe and learn about new cultures firsthand, writes Caren Osten Gerszberg in The New York Times.
‘I Wanna Be Sedated’: One Woman’s Solution to Travel with Children
by Eva Holland | 10.02.07 | 8:30 AM ET
I’m not a parent, so I can’t fully appreciate the struggle of traveling with toddlers. But I was fascinated to read Emma Mahony’s story in the Times of London about drugging her son on a long-haul flight. Mahony, the mother of a young boy and infant twins, came across the idea at a social gathering of mothers of twins. She writes: “Before I joined an evening out with mothers of the local Wandsworth twins’ club, I was a virgin to the pharmaceutical names of sedatives. There, after a few glasses of wine, the subject of drugging toddlers to travel came up, and the stories began to flow.”
My Family and I Want to Volunteer in a Safe Latin American Country. Any Tips?
by Rolf Potts | 09.18.07 | 11:33 AM ET
Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel
Seven Travel Rules From a Brooding Teenager
by Doug Mack | 09.17.07 | 11:36 AM ET
The American Adolescent Male can learn a lot about travel during a trip to see Scotland and its piles of rocks. Doug Mack breaks it down.
Family Friendly Las Vegas Swimming Pools
by Jim Benning | 08.07.07 | 2:43 PM ET
The Los Angeles Times offers its take on Las Vegas’s top six pools for families. Among those making the list: Flamingo Las Vegas (“a 15-acre tropical oasis with four pools amid pounding waterfalls and mature foliage”); Golden Nugget (“teems with real sea life and a three-story water slide”); MGM Grand (“five pools in a 6.6-acre water complex”); and Mandalay Bay (“kudos for putting 6-foot-high swells in the middle of the desert”). For the true budget-minded Vegas pool connoisseur who delights in variety, of course, there’s always pool-crashing.