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The good news: If you can work remotely with kids’ camps and summer school canceled, you can opt for a longer break. Perhaps this is the year to take that big road trip out West or get a longer rental in a mountain or beach town.
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TAKING THE KIDS- How to make the most of the pandemic summer
Just to enter, you’ll need an advance reservation, temperature screening and a mask. Welcome to the New Normal as Orlando begins to open in this Pandemic Summer.
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TAKING THE KIDS – As Orlando Reopens, Safety First at Theme Parks
GoBQ portable grill in action
After months of sheltering at home with the kids and, maybe working remotely, Dad probably can’t wait to get outdoors. Some gift ideas.
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TAKING THE KIDS – A Dozen-plus Gifts for the Outdoorsman Dad
Wall Drug (Black Hills and Badlands Tourism Association)
This summer, it seems, road trips are expected to be particularly popular — if families opt to leave home at all. That’s why throughout the summer, we’ll spotlight some classic American road trips — like to South Dakota’s Black Hills and Badlands.
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Taking the kids: On a road trip to South Dakota’s Black Hills and Badlands
Carl and Asta Dam next to their RV at the KOA Moab campground 2019
Families, it seems, think camping can be the antidote they seek — and a way to get out of town safely, according to a new COVID-19 edition of the North American Camping Report, sponsored by Kampgrounds of America.
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Taking the kids: And heading outdoors any way you want this summer
Houseboating on Lake Powell (Aramark/TNS)
What’s a family to do? If families get away at all, they are likely to drive and stay closer to home, suggests Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association
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Taking the kids: summer travel, or not, in the new normal
Reggie (left) at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro
I’ve met moms and daughters traveling together around the world — on cruise ships and at spa resorts, all-inclusive Mexican resorts and adventure resorts, on food tours and at cooking classes, touring exotic cities, on hiking and ski trips, often when I was traveling with one or both of my daughters.
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Taking the Kids — and getting moms and daughters out of their comfort zones together
MS Joy godmothers at christening ceremony
Happy Mother’s Day! If there ever was a time to thank moms for all they do it’s this year, as we celebrate the strangest Mother’s Day ever
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Taking the Kids — let’s hear it for moms everywhere (grandmas, too!)
This sign greets visitors on the Kenai Peninsula as they enter world-famous Homer Alaska
Nearly a year later, stuck at home, trips canceled in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, I smile thinking about that stellar day and the rest of last summer’s trip to Alaska
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Taking the Kids — and thinking about adventures past and to come — in Alaska
View of the Golden Gate Bridge from The Presidio
They called the area the Great Sand Wastes, but even those who believed in the project could never have imagined what Golden Gate Park would become
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Taking the Kids — to Golden Gate Park for its big birthday