And The Winner Is…..

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Dec 232011
 
And The Winner Is.....

This year’s Passports With Purpose travel blogger fund raiser set a goal to raise $80,000 to build two libraries in Zambia in collaboration with Room to Read.  Over the course of two weeks, donations came in by the thousands, $10 at a time, and when it was over we made our goal and passed it by almost $10,000.    As of  today, the total was $89,699!  Needless to say, the almost 100 bloggers who participated are thrilled and its all thanks to you our readers and sponsors. Travel with Teens and Tweens was honored to host the prize of a one day Family Pass for 4 donated by the Monkey Trunks Extreme high ropes and zipline aerial adventure centers in Chocorua, NH, Weirs Beach, NH and Saco, Maine.   Monkey Trunks Extreme is a must do activity for families with [...]

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Our Five Favorite Passports with Purpose Prizes for 2011

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Dec 112011
 
Our Five Favorite Passports with Purpose Prizes for 2011

With just a week to go, the annual travel blogger Passports with Purpose fund raiser has passed the $33, 000 mark, but we still need many more donations to reach our goal of $80,000 to build two libraries in Zambia in partnership with Room to Read.   How are we going to get there?  With your support of course! If you haven’t made a donation yet, its time to head on over to the Passports with Purpose donation page and make a $10 pledge for each prize you would like to win.  Dream big, there are luxury hotel stays, international tours, passes for all kinds of family fun, luggage, and more.  Donations will only be accepted until 11:59 pm PST on Friday December 16, 2011.  All prizes will be awarded just [...]

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Reach for the Sky with Monkey Trunks Extreme and Passports with Purpose

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Nov 292011
 
Reach for the Sky with Monkey Trunks Extreme and Passports with Purpose

This is the fourth holiday season the travel blogger community, and our many travel partners, have rallied to help improve the lives of children in developing countries around the world via the Passports with Purpose fund raiser. The program started small with a handful of bloggers raising $7,500 for Heifer International in 2008. In 2009, 90 bloggers raised $30,000 to help build a school in Cambodia. Last year, over 100 bloggers raised about $65,000 to build 25 homes in the small village of Karunganni in South India. This year, the goal is $80,000 to build two libraries in Zambia in partnership with Room to Read. How It Works Each participating blogger features a travel-related prize donated by a generous sponsor. This year there are more than 100 prizes available that include [...]

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A Halloween Fright – Your College Application is Due Tomorrow!

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Oct 312011
 
A Halloween Fright - Your College Application is Due Tomorrow!

For high school seniors, Halloween isn’t just a day on the calendar that provides a reason to dress up and attend parties.  Rather, it marks the deadline for filing Early Decision and Early Action college applications since most are due by November 1st.   For those readers who are not as far down the college application rabbit hole as we, are a little context might explain why tonight is such a scary time for so many teens. At many colleges, the applicant’s chances of getting accepted can be significantly higher if they make an early application and it can be further impacted by the type of Early Application that is filed.  Specifically: Option A: Early Decision is a binding process that generally results in the highest percentage of applications being accepted when compared [...]

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Good Hands Roadside Assistance Can Keep Collegebound Teens Safe on the Road

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Jul 252011
 

Ever since we got back from Alaska #1 Son has been getting seriously focused on the whole college application process. Over the last year, we have opportunistically visited a number of local schools, but now it’s time to get on the road to see schools a bit farther afield. Looking at the map, it appears we’ve got road trips to New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC, and New York State in our near future. The colleges all look great, but, hey, wait a minute? What if he ends up attending one of them and brings a car along? He could be hundreds of miles from home with no family available to bail him out if car trouble hits! One of the options we’ve been thinking about to keep him safe on [...]

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Good Hands Roadside Assistance Offers Peace of Mind for Teens on the Go

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Jun 272011
 

About a year ago we wrote about suffering through driving lessons with teens with our oldest teen.    At the time, the goal was to drive around the block without having an accident.  Since then, #1 Son has successfully passed his tests, safely survived our state’s six month driving probation period and moved on to having full driving privileges which include  the opportunity to drive himself and friends to wherever they feel like going.  We are lucky that in our case this generally involves local driving to movies, school activities and other nearby events. For the most part things have gone pretty well, if we overlook a small unexpected encounter with the side of the garage and a couple of times when the car lights got left on longer than they [...]

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When School Calendars and Vacations Collide: An Alaskan Case Study

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Jun 142011
 
When School Calendars and Vacations Collide: An Alaskan Case Study

      Regular readers know we spent a good part of the winter planning  a family cruise vacation to Alaska to coincide with the end of the school year and the princess’s graduation from Middle School.  Although we built some buffer time into the schedule, the brutal Northeast winter of 2010-2011 was more aggressive than we expected.   As the snow days piled up graduation and end of year events got pushed further and further out on the calendar until we had to choose – graduation or the cruise?!?      We know there are many family travelers out there who would probably have ditched graduation but we went the other way.  With a myriad of work, camp, college visits and personal commitments hemming in the rest of our shortened summer travel season we bit [...]

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