Family Travel Magazine

I’ve heard so much about Colonial Williamsburg, VA,  but it’s not a place I’ve ever visited.  On the Virginia Media Tour I attended several weeks ago, we had the chance to spend a short amount of time touring Colonial Williamsburg.  While I didn’t have a very long time to check things out, one thing I [...]

During my media trip to Virginia, we spend a morning on Virginia’s Eastern Shore – a place I hadn’t really heard much about before.  We headed out on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel – one of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World.  Although the Bridge Tunnel is 20-miles long, we stopped “on” the [...]

During our family vacation to the Greater Phoenix area, we stopped at the Desert Botanical Garden, which is located right next door to the Phoenix Zoo.  The Botanical Gardens features 145 acres, including 65 acres under cultivation with gorgeous dessert plant life.  As an amateur photographer, I really enjoyed my visit last year, but I [...]

During our family vacation to Phoenix and Tucson, my kids really loved seeing the desert.  They were fascinated by the cacti, the mountains, and the animals (my daughter and I even saw an owl on the top of our casita at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess).  So, when we had to choose one attraction to visit [...]

On my family vacation to Phoenix back in 2005 (when my daughter was one and I was pregnant with my son), we went to the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park for my daughter to run around.  Since my now five-year old son loves trains, I was really looking forward to returning to the park during our spring [...]

During Christmas break, when my family vacationed in the Adirondack region of New York, we decided to go skiing.  Since Massachusetts, for the most part, hasn’t gotten any snow, we were thrilled to find that the Titus Mountain Family Ski Area was covered with snow. My kids skied for the first time last year at [...]

While many visitors to the Adirondacks know about Ausable Chasm, one of the most popular summer tourist attractions in the area, few know that it’s also open in the winter months.  This past week, during our Adirondack/Lake Champlain Region family vacation, my family got a full, guided tour of the chasm – and it’s quite [...]

If you are looking for an off-the-beaten-track activity in Boston that is perfect in the summer, look no further than the Boston Harbor Island. The 12 islands and peninsulas (plus 22 more that aren’t accessible) of the Boston Harbor Islands make up one large national park that’s a great day trip for families. This summer [...]

  My daughter is a 6-year old adrenaline junkie, so on our trip to the White Mountains this year, I just knew that we had to include a stop at Attitash Mountain Resort.  Attitash is a popular ski resort, but in the summer it turns into an adventure park for the whole family. It had [...]

When I received the itinerary for my amazing Phoenix media trip, one thing caught my eye – a trip on a hot air balloon.  I’d never taken a hot air balloon, so I was thrilled with the opportunity to finally have this experience! We were picked up early in the morning at our hotel by [...]