Kid friendly ratings, critiques, and praises.
February 17, 2011
This is a good review and a bad review of an elegant and luxurious hotel that’s long dominated the hotel scene on the north shore of Kauai. With iconic views – they filmed the movie musical Bali Hai here – and a rich, wet, jungle flower setting, the Princeville Resort is known the world ...
February 16, 2011
One of our favorite island destinations was once a rugged whaling stop off the Massachusetts coast. Nantucket island is more than thirty miles off shore and it’s a longer ferry ride from Cape Cod to Nantucket than it is to the more frequented Martha’s Vineyard. Confession time: as much as my family and I enjoy ...
February 16, 2011
Many people think of island vacations as always including palm trees, little grass shacks, coconuts, and tropical sunshine. But there are other island vacations that can offer a great deal of relaxing fun for you and your family…in the island communities of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts just off the coast of Cape Cod. Summer ...
February 14, 2011
The Northern California valley is lush and green, the sunset is rosy over the hills, and the vineyards stretch as far as the eye can see. We’re not far from Napa in miles but far from the crush of wine buyers and tasters and expensive boutique hotels that accompany it. It’s a bucolic view ...
February 14, 2011
If you want to teach your children about history, it’s never too early and you should try and make your history lessons come alive. With that advice in mind, we were eager to take our children to Colonial Williamsburg Virginia, where re-enactments of famous moments in American history are part of the fabric of this ...
February 14, 2011
A long time ago and far away I had a romantic honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas. I also toured the museums of Mexico City, walked rugged Mayan ruins, and solved any lack of purified water with a margarita. In others, Mexico, and a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula not far from Cancun, was not the ...
February 14, 2011
The old joke, when Niagara falls, where does it fall to – is easily answered. It falls up river and down, from above and below. It also falls not from one single waterfall, as we certainly thought before we arrived at this wonderful, wet, and decidedly must-see attraction; but from three of them, each of ...
February 11, 2011
Walt Disney always planned to build a working city in Central Florida. Known as the Florida project, his plans called for a high-tech, entirely interconnected city where people could live, work and play without ever needing their cars. When Walt passed away in 1966, however, new management was unsure how to take on such an ...
February 10, 2011
On a recent trip to St. Augustine, Florida, we took some time to simply drive around the area. We love to go out in a new town and get slightly lost, discovering hidden attractions along the way. On one of these drives we ended up at the Mala Compra Plantation Archaeological Site. It’s a park ...
February 10, 2011
In the 1800s, cotton was king throughout most of the American south. Florida certainly raised its share, but settlers quickly discovered that Florida’s rich subtropical climate made it an ideal location for raising another cash crop–sugar cane. In the early 1800s, sugar plantations dotted the Florida landscape, particularly along the Atlantic Coast. But the ...
