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Travel Diary
Read Eileen’s travel diary and keep up with her travels. You might just pick up some ideas for your next family vacation!
January 20, 2013
Our past trips to San Diego and New York have been made more enjoyable, and more cost-effective by using the great benefits that CityPass offers. Our hope was that our holiday trip to San Francisco would be enhanced by using the CityPass book.
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Backyard Vacations, Destinations, Families & Groups, Travel Diary
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CityPass, family travel, family vacations, San Francisco, where to take the kids
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January 18, 2013
Sue and Robin Ricketts started Anguilla’s flourishing villa business—ideal for multigenerational families and now manage some 80 villas on the island from the most luxurious ($1,000,000 a week) to totally affordable (a few thousand). Now they also run the boutique 27-room Anacona where rooms can be as low as $150 a night and all kinds of special programs—tennis, sailing, wellness, biking, yoga, art…...
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Beach Vacations, Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Travel Diary
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Anguilla, Caribbean, family travel, family vacations, where to take the kids
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January 17, 2013
The Anguilla Youth Sailing Club that teaches local as well as visiting kids to sail (look for programs through the Viceroy Hotel and others) “Kids really rally round the boat racing…we start to teach them at age four,” says Paul Koeniger, who oversees the youth sailing club.
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Beach Vacations, Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Travel Diary
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Anguilla, Caribbean, family travel, family vacations, where to take the kids
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January 16, 2013
We spent the afternoon at the stunning Viceroy Resort down the road from where we are staying that employs 600 people for their 166 rooms. Did I mention the five-bedroom villas that rent for as much as $17,500 a night?
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Beach Vacations, Destinations, Lodging, Travel Diary
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Anguilla, Beach Vacations, Destinations, family travel, where to take the kids
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January 15, 2013
At the CuisinArt Resort in Anguila. I indulged in a facial (anti-aging of course) and a soak in the “healing waters” pool that offers a combination, I’m told, of mineral sea salt and fresh water that is supposed to help my aching knee.
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Beach Vacations, Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Travel Diary
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Anguilla, Caribbean, traveling with kids; where to take the kids
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January 14, 2013
We’re here on a girlfriends’ getaway ensconced in a huge three-bedroom villa with its own pool, kitchen, and beach. I’m sitting aside the pool and hear the crashing waves as I write this. Did I mention the mile-long beach?
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Beach Vacations, Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Travel Diary
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Anguilla, Caribbean, family travel, family vacations, where to take the kids
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December 30, 2012
Yhe Bretton Woods Ski Area Canopy Tour is a combination of nine progressively thrilling zip line rides, two hikes across suspension bridges way up in the trees, and a couple of incredible rappelling experiences. It was the latter that really tested our mettle.
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Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Parks & Outdoors, Snow Vacations, Travel Diary
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Bretton Woods, Mount Washington, New Hampshire, rappeling, where to take the kids, ziplining
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December 29, 2012
There is plenty to do at this historic resort—from NH largest ski area, plenty of groomed cross country and snow shoe trails, dog sledding, sleigh rides and indoor and outdoor pool and gargantuan spa where my daughter and I indulged in blissful massages yesterday.
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Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Parks & Outdoors, Snow Vacations, Travel Diary
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Mount Washington, New Hampshire, Omni Mount Washington, where to take the kids
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December 28, 2012
We’re hiking in the snow—micro crampons on our feet on the Crawford Trail in New Hampshire, with a guide from the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Highlands Center. In case you are wondering, the needles on the spruce are spikey--thus “spikey spruce” and the needles on the balsam are soft (“friendly fir”!).
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Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Parks & Outdoors, Travel Diary
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Appalachian Mountain Club, Mount Washington, New Hampshire, outdoor adventures, where to take the kids
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December 27, 2012
Welcome to the Appalachian Mountain Club Highland Center, a short drive from Mount Washington, New England’s tallest peak. Some of the families we meet the weekend before Christmas have made a visit here an annual tradition, like the Canes, who have come nearly every year since their nine year-old was a baby.
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Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Travel Diary
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Appalachian Mountain Club, Mount Washington, New Hampshire, where to take the kids
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