Travel With Teens and Tweens

Microsoft OneNote 2010 Digital Notebook Software Review

May 212011

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Microsoft for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. We were recently selected to participate in the Microsoft OneNote Around the World in 40 Days blogger program, which gave us an opportunity to test out Microsoft’s OneNote 2010 digital notebook software as we worked on our itinerary for this summer’s trip to Alaska. We were assigned Alaska’s capitol city of Juneau, which can only be accessed by air or water. Our assignment was to use OneNote to create a quick guide for a 24 hour visit to the city. You can view and download our 24 Hours in Juneau with Teens TripBook, and those from all the other 39 bloggers and cities, at: OneNote TripBook We had never used OneNote [...]

Using PoiEdit and Google Earth to Get Your GPS Ready to Roll

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Sep 252010

Using PoiEdit and Google Earth to Get Your GPS Ready to Roll

Whether we are on the go to the hockey rink or navigating around Hawaii, we have come to rely on our GPS to get us where we want to go. Of course, GPSs can only help navigate if you are able to provide them with accurate information about where you want to end up. In planning our family vacations our research usually identifies a number of restaurants, landmarks, hotels, and activities that we don’t want to miss. Unfortunately, sometimes when it comes time to actually find these sights, the roads they are on may not be in the GPS or the unit can only approximate the location because it is on an private road, inside a large complex or otherwise hidden from the GPS mapping models. To avoid the incredibly frustrating experience of getting [...]

Favorite iPhone Apps for Travels with Teens

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Sep 182010

Favorite iPhone Apps for Travels with Teens

In our family, iPhones and iTouches have become top priority travel gear. For the adults, real time access to directions and the ability to instantly look up nearby restaurants and activities is critical. For the teens, hours in the car speed by when they have their music and games at hand. Our teens almost always have a school reading assignment to work on, even in the summer as our schools assign a number of required vacation reading books to middle school and high school students. We make sure they stay on top of school work. Beyond that, we don’t lose much sleep about whether the apps they are using have an educational value – for us its all about keeping peace in the car or killing time on planes [...]