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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...

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Thomas Jefferson advised the we should have a revolution every 20 years. He meant government, but the idea applies to anything: If we don’t continually rethink how we do what...

May 27 Twitter Party: Summer Travel Planning

Summertime's almost here – time to start planning your summer travels! We've taken the guesswork out of your planning by seeking out advice from top family travel writers from across...

Best Advice for Planning Your Summer Vacation

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Join In Our Instagram #TMOMphoto Meme

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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...

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...

Summer Fun at Midwest Lake Resorts

Midwest winters can seem endless. The payoff? Perfect summer temperatures! Each year I vow to savor every minute of the warm weather. Although I can’t put everything on hold, I...

Summer Vacation at the Boar's Head Inn in Charlottesville, Virginia

Summer vacations for some families mean active adventures, while for others the summer is a perfect time to start exploring college campuses.  Imagine being able to do both in one...

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Tips for Replacing a US Passport Abroad
Media TravelingMomTips for Replacing a US Passport Abroad

Your passport is gone and you are in another county. What are you going to do? Misplacing your passport is enough to strike terror in the hearts of any traveler but imagine you are 15, traveling with your aunt to Paris on your first-ever international trip, and you set down your airplane ticket and [ ... ]

Mac n’ Cheese Inspired by Travel
Kristen KucharMac n’ Cheese Inspired by Travel

One of the best ways to experience new places is to eat the local favorite. Each country, state, region and even city has a dish that allows you to have a unique culinary experience while visiting. It tells me about the destination and the people who call it home.

Unfortunately, I can’t travel all [ ... ]

Las Vegas Summer Vacation Ideas
Las Vegas TravelingMomLas Vegas Summer Vacation Ideas

Heading to Las Vegas with the family this summer? Not to worry, here's a quick list of my Top 5 picks to keep all ages satisfied: Wet-N-Wild Las Vegas is the place to be this summer. Nevada's premier water park will offer over 25 slides and attractions. Several of the attractions are named after fa [ ... ]

Family Indulgence: Grand Hyatt New York
Vegetarian TravelingMomFamily Indulgence: Grand Hyatt New York

Train travel is often associated with romance and air travel (at least nowadays) with hassle. Similarly, hotel airports have a seedy reputation, while a hotel in a train station sounds elegant.

My kids and I have stayed at the Crowne Plaza Indianapolis Downtown Union Station, with rooms in an actual [ ... ]

5 Fun Runs to Try This Summer
Marathon TravelingMom5 Fun Runs to Try This Summer

Playing in the mud, getting splashed with paint, lighting up the night or getting chased by zombies all add a little excitement to the typical 5K race. Fun runs are all the rage and a great way to get newbies involved in running; or to give veteran runners a change of pace. Most fun runs remove the  [ ... ]

Summer at Universal Studios Hollywood, What’s New?
GoodnCrazy TravelingMomSummer at Universal Studios Hollywood, What’s New?

Head over to Universal Studios Hollywood for two new rides and an expanded Studio Tour! It’s a perfect Summer Vacation Idea. Plus, right now when you “a day you get the rest of 2013 free."

Boston Roadtrip with the Ford C-Max Hybrid
Vegetarian TravelingMomBoston Roadtrip with the Ford C-Max Hybrid

As a runner, I wanted to pay my respects to the Boston Marathoners; as an environmentalist, I didn’t want to use a lot of gas to go to ston.

We had no choice but to drive to Boston to pick my daughter up at college; the self-same daughter who refuses to eat industrialized food or buy clothing pr [ ... ]

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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