Why the Sea of Cortez Should Be On Your Family’s Wildlife Bucket List
You never forget your first sea lion—the first sleek, several-hundred pound creature making a beeline toward your face ...
29 November, 2016
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Great Places to Get up Close to California’s Redwood Trees
This is their temple, vaulted high, And here we pause with reverent eye, With silent tongue and awe-struck soul; For here we sense life's proper goal… --Joseph Strauss, “The Redwoods” That the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge was also a talented poet may come as a surprise to...
20 August, 2016
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Extreme Family Adventure Part 3: Adventure as a Family Lifestyle and What’s Next for the “Tris-Trans Saga”
This is Part 3 of the Extreme Family Adventure interview with Kim Broux and Jochem Cuypers. Click here to see Part 1: Meet the Parents Behind the “TrisTrans Saga” or Part 2: Tackling Highest Peaks and Lowest Temperatures on the “TrisTrans Saga” Many people I know...
01 August, 2016
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Extreme Family Adventure Part 2: Tackling Highest Peaks and Lowest Temperatures on the TrisTrans Saga
This is Part 2 of the Extreme Family Adventure interview with Kim Broux and Jochem Cuypers. Click here to see Part 1: Meet the Parents Behind the “TrisTrans Saga” Most families I know hope to make a road trip through the southwest to see the national...
25 July, 2016
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Fourth-Graders and Their Families Get in Free to U.S. National Parks
If you have a fourth-grader in the house, or a future fourth-grader in the wings, you may want to revisit your family’s travel bucket list to see the national parks left on it. Thanks to the new “Every Kid in a Park” initiative, all fourth-grade...
24 June, 2016
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Extreme Family Adventure Part 1: Meet the parents behind the ‘TrisTrans Saga’
For many first-time parents, just undertaking a trip across town with their babies can feel like an adventure. But for Kim Broux and Jochem Cuypers, getting out of town—and into the remote wilderness of Norway, Greenland, and the American Southwest—is where the adventures just begin....
30 November, 2015
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Five Paths to Family Adventure in Oregon
On paper, Oregon quickly becomes a land of superlatives. It’s home to the deepest river gorge in North America, the 7,993-foot deep Hell’s Canyon. It’s also where you’ll find the deepest lake in the United States, the 1,943-foot deep Crater Lake. ...
15 September, 2015
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Why south Florida should absolutely be on your family’s travel bucket list
For the family that wants to paddle, pedal, snorkel, or hike its way through a wild paradise, the southernmost part of the southernmost state in the continental U.S. calls....
29 July, 2015
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When are kids old enough for an African safari?
It was approximately two minutes after we’d driven through the final gate with signs warning, “Keep all windows closed. Do not stop vehicle beyond this point. Do not turn around,” when the oldest of...
16 July, 2015
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Five Essential Skills Kids Need for Adventure Travel
Most kids come with a built-in compass pointing always toward adventure. If there’s an overgrown path that needs exploring, or a curious hole that must be poked with a stick to see what lurks within, you can pretty much count on your young explorer rising...
22 June, 2015
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