JetBlue and the Terrible Day at JFK
What should have been a simple 3 ½ hour direct flight from JFK Airport in Queens, NY, to Montego Bay, Jamaica, turned into an all-day and night travel odyssey
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Celebrating Dads cooking prowess
Is the dad in your life suddenly waxing eloquent about camping trip meals? Has grandpa become an oenophile during the pandemic?
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What’s ahead for summer
If you are thinking about renting an RV or a car, heading to popular national park lodges or camping, you need to book or you may be out of luck
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To Moab: an outdoors-oriented vaxication
I wanted a place where we could cook with distance from other families. And with my outdoors-loving gang, it needed to have plenty of hiking and biking
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Cruises Returning for Summer 2021
The US cruise industry is moving quickly to resume sailings with a flurry of announcements that some cruises to Alaska will resume in mid-Summer from Seattle
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Heaven for dogs and humans
Our 10-year-old pooch Jake, a 14-pound poodle mix, was greeted at check in with a packet of treats and is lazing on the couch in our room
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A late pandemic trip to Walt Disney World
We’re talking about the masks you’ll see adults and kids buying and wearing throughout the parks and Disney hotels, often with mouse ears to match.
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Families connect at White Stallion Ranch
Dolores Day and her husband had gathered her two daughters and three grown grandchildren for the first time in four years from all over the country
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Family activities and, of course, horses!
The Mattsons were so fearful this trip would also get derailed that they didn’t tell their daughters until they got to the historic White Stallion Ranch
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The White Stallion Ranch experience
If you thought a dude ranch was just about horses, think again—even a historic one like the White Stallion Ranch in Tucson, owned by the True family for decades
