Travel With Teens and Tweens

Tripbase has recently launched the “My 7 Links” project to energize bloggers to shine a light on older articles, and encourage others to do the same.  Travel with Teens and Tweens was nominated by one of our favorite travel bloggers, Jennifer Miner in her article “Old Travel Posts Seen Anew – 7 Links” posted on The Vacation Girls blog site.  The rules are pretty simple, publish links to 7 of your own past blog links – one for each of the categories defined by Tripbase – then nominate  5 other bloggers to do the same.  We had lots of fun looking back at our old posts and hope you do as well! Most Beautiful Post Our readers know we feature lots of great photos from all members of the family but we [...]

       We always look forward to hosting our Family Travel with Teens and Tweens blog carnival and having a chance to catch up with some of our favorite traveling families.  This edition features a number of updates from long term travelers in the US and overseas, as well as some articles on family visits to such unexpected events as the Los Angeles Pillow Fight Day and the World’s Largest Historic Naval Ship Exhibit.  The common theme across these posts seems to be that family travel can have its ups and downs, but the family time together is — priceless! Long Term Travelers Face Ups and Downs While on the Road      We start off this carnival with an update from 18 year old Cody Smith who presents Waxahachie, American Girl, and Our Frozen Sewage posted at [...]

      With the holidays on the way we’ve been decking the halls, sending cards, baking cookies, making our lists and checking them twice, throwing holiday parties and planning for winter skiing at Vermont’s Burke Mountain and  Smugglers’ Notch as well a summer cruise to Alaska with Royal Caribbean on the Radiance of the Seas.       The teens have even more travel coming with school-sponsored trips to New York City and Washington DC, a church ski trip and a Habitat for Humanity Service trip.  And of course, we are making the rounds of various seasonal hockey tournaments which gave us an opportunity to visit the Newport, RI Breakers Mansion at Christmas.      As a result, its only just now, a few days before Christmas, that we are catching up on some of our [...]