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5 Summer Vacation Ideas for Teens

Teens sometimes get a bad rap. People think they’re hard to please and harder to travel with. But the key to traveling with teens—and keeping the whole family happy—is to...

Stress-Free Travel is Right Under Your Nose

Air travel can be stressful nowadays with long lines, flight delays and cramped seating.  Add luggage, children, strollers and even pets to the mix and you have a veritable powder...

Best Advice for Planning Your Summer Vacation

Planning your family vacation can be overwhelming--where to go, what to do, how to get there, you name it. There are a lot of details to planning a summer vacation....

A Jersey Girl’s Ode to the Jersey Shore

“’Cause down the shore everything’s all right.” ---Tom Waits, JERSEY GIRL Some see the Jersey Shore as a travel destination, a place to take the family for a couple of...

Alaska and the NW Passage: Armchair or on-the-Water Journeys

Family travel when it might mean the demise of all is no figure of speech for two brothers and a sister who maneuvered their 57-foot boat through the Northwest Passage...

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The Chevy Volt: A Dashboard View
History Buff TravelingMomThe Chevy Volt: A Dashboard View

The thought of driving an electric car always seemed a little intimidating to me.  Is there a learning curve?  What happens when you are in the middle of the highway and the battery runs out?  When it comes to the technology of electric cars I am a bit of an auto-techno peasant but I  [ ... ]

5 Ideas for Summer Vacations for Christians
Christian TravelingMom5 Ideas for Summer Vacations for Christians

Christians travel for reasons that are almost as varied as the denominations that exist.  Here are a few reasons I love, and need, to travel, along with some ideas for where to go:

A Hidden Gem of a Natural History Museum
Discovery TravelingmomA Hidden Gem of a Natural History Museum

For fans of natural history museums, New York's American Museum of Natural History, DC’s ithsonian National Museum of History, and London’s tural Museum of History draw the masses when it comes to tourists and locals alike. But just past Boston’s Harvard Yard sits a hidden gem of a museum  [ ... ]

Hands-on Fun at the History Colorado Center
Western TravelingMomHands-on Fun at the History Colorado Center

The History Colorado Center is one of the newest museums in Downtown Denver.  Since its opening last year, the History Colorado Center has been teaching visitors about Colorado in a fun and interactive way.  The brightly colored displays draw visitors in and the hands-on activities will ke [ ... ]

Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas
Texas TravelingMomDr Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas

How many of y’all knew that the origin of Dr Pepper was a small Texas town called Waco? There is a unique story to its creation. On the site of the original bottling factory sits the Dr Pepper Museum, so you can learn all about it.
r/>Dr Pepper was created in 1885 in Morrison's Old Country Store in W [ ... ]

Southern Appalachian Brewery
Pets and Service Dog TravelingmomSouthern Appalachian Brewery

A great little hidden gem in Hendersonville, North Carolina awaits anyone in search of great, small batch beer, good music and a relaxed atmosphere near the heart of downtown. While this is certainly a kid and family-friendly establishment, it was just my girlfriend and I on our recent visit. We ha [ ... ]

2013 Chevy Spark: Sporty, Economical and Fun
SpecialNeeds TravelingMom2013 Chevy Spark: Sporty, Economical and Fun

“Spark” is a very appropriate name for Chevy’s first mini car built for North America.  I had the opportunity to test drive the 2013 Chevy Spark on a recent Chevy-sponsored retreat in Orlando.  Salsa red with an appealing, feisty look; I could see myself dashing around town in it jus [ ... ]

Teaching Each Other Fine Flavors, and the Language of Taste

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TeachingFineFlavors 004Cruise ship dining rooms suited my household in the days of raising children. We saw them as grand experiments in eating new foods. Sure there's excess in that abundance, but also relaxation for the art of "Just a taste. See what you think."

The boys we took to sea are now men, eating smart and with creativity. One has embraced charcuterie and his knowledge and skills in all things meat is astounding.

The other is married to an exquisite cook whose favorite reading material is cookbooks.

Both these boys-I-birthed scout out wonderful Atlanta restaurant experiences where we visit them, and they open their homes to wide varieties of friends and colleagues for home-cooked meals.

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Cooking shrimp and local garden vegetables at King and Prince sometimes leads to recipe sharing.


Going to sea for food and more still strikes my husband and me as a good idea, but we're also pumped about tasting opportunities in farm-to-table events.

Here are some we experienced at the 76-year-old King and Prince beach and golf resort on St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Artisan cheesemakers talking about what their cows and goats eat and how that matters to the cheeses they make.

Chocolatiers guiding us to notice floral, fruity, woodsy, pungent, sweet cream, earth cut-grass and more as we taste.  

Olive growers identifying soils and techniques poised to position to southwest Georgia as a superb producer of extra virgin excellence.

Shrimpers sharing wild Georgia shrimp, growing naturally in marshes and estuaries, feeding among the spartina grasses. No chemicals. No antibiotics or hormones.

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Wild Georgia shrimp are hormone and antibiotic free; they live in marshes and estuaries.


Beekeepers passionate about one of the most ancient creatures living today and wanting people to contemplate buttery undertone, gingerbready, earthy and mineraly. Snow-on-the-mountain is the experience of a dab of Montana wildflower honey on my tongue.

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Blended Family Traveling Mom Christine Tibbetts on the Lady Jane eco boat near Brunswick, Georgia. Everything goes back to sea fast, except the shrimp. They’re eaten.


Wine tastings will still be fun for me I'm sure, but the notion of so much vocabulary and such new perception with many artisan foods is influencing my solo and my family travel agendas.

Top Photo: Honeycomb is chewable and delectable too.

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Christine Tibbetts filters travel through her blended, multi-generational "his, hers, ours and theirs" family eye. Follow her also on www.TibbettsTravel.com.

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#1 Carmel L. Mooney 2012-01-27 22:08
My daughter and I loved the Lady Jane Shrimp Boat, what a blast we had.
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