| Atlanta Constitution |
| Travel Experts Suggest Great Family Getaways |
For busy families, planning a vacation can be like putting a jigsaw puzzle together — especially when the parents work.
Mom has to make a sales pitch in New York the last week of May. Dad is booked for a convention in Vegas the third week in June. The grandparents are visiting in mid-June. There's a family ...
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| Pittsburg Tribune |
| Road Test |
James Fitzpatrick says traveling with a group of friends can be the event of a lifetime.
Just as a disaster can.
"When you go, you have to realize that you could come back better friends than before or come back bitter enemies," says Fitzpatrick, of Wilkins, who has taken about six such trips in varying ...
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| DoItYourself.com |
| Tips for Last Minute Travelers |
If you haven't planned your family vacation yet, it's not too late. Long weekend getaways have lots to offer families needing an eleventh hour getaway. Not only are many travel rates low, but according to the Travel Industry Association of America, 82 percent of Americans are planning to take at least one trip this year. So, there's still more than enough time to fit in an old-fashioned, American road trip.
Travel expert Lynn O'Rourke Hayes has designed a series of tips to help Americans whisk their ...
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| Milwaukee Journal |
| Happy Kids, Happy Trip |
Sweaty limbs, back-seat battles, sandwiches smooshed in wax paper - ahh the family car trip! It's this and so much more.
Or less, if you play it right.
For most families, a road trip is a fact of life when the weather warms. And this year's trip is still on, despite high gasoline prices, according to Pam Moen of AAA Wisconsin.
"Their travel is important and a lot of families maybe plan one big trip a year," she says. "Everybody looks forward to that, and it's a big deal, and they're going to continue with those plans despite the higher gas prices."
In fact, a survey in January by the Travel Industry Association of America showed that 81% of Americans who were planning a summer trip ...
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| Net Family News |
| Kids and Cell Phones: A Look at Parental Controls |
"I resisted giving my youngest son [an eighth-grader] a cell phone," said Lynn Hayes, a working mother of three boys. "I viewed it as a privilege and was waiting for the perfect time to get him one," she told us in a phone interview last week. "But I realized that there were so many times I wished he had a cell phone - I'd be late picking him up, or I'd want to make sure he was safe ...
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