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  • Volunteering on Vacation: Memorable Adventures from Family Trips
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    Volunteering on Vacation: Memorable Adventures from Family Trips

    ByEileen Ogintz November 19, 2015July 17, 2021

    When the two Whitaker teens talk about their holiday trip to Tanzania two Christmases ago, it’s not the animals they saw on safari that proved the most memorable, as amazing as the elephants and giraffes were. It’s how they helped a small unofficial orphanage.

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  • The Disneyland Hotel celebrates 60 years of putting families first
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    The Disneyland Hotel celebrates 60 years of putting families first

    ByEileen Ogintz November 17, 2015July 14, 2021

    At a time when hotels catered to businessmen, not families, Walt Disney thought there should be a place where families could continue the fun they had in Disneyland. On the same day.

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  • The Force Awakens ahead of the movie at Disneyland
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    The Force Awakens ahead of the movie at Disneyland

    ByEileen Ogintz November 16, 2015July 6, 2021

    The Force Awakens at Disneyland today, just in time for the holidays –and of course the much-awaited Star Wars movie debuting Dec 18.

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  • To Montana, which offers outdoor fun all year
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    To Montana, which offers outdoor fun all year

    ByEileen Ogintz November 12, 2015May 13, 2024

    I love Yellowstone in winter — no crowds, lots of animals and the chance to see Old Faithful and other thermal features without any crowds. (Did you know Yellowstone has more thermal features than anywhere in the world — 10,000 bubbling mud pots, hot springs and geysers?) Honestly, we felt like we had the whole place to ourselves.

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  • Aboard the New Anthem of the Seas
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    Aboard the New Anthem of the Seas

    ByEileen Ogintz November 10, 2015July 7, 2021

    Kids of all ages give high marks to Royal Caribbean’s second Quantum Class ship Anthem of the Seas which will be home-ported year round in Cape Liberty, NJ.

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  • So much invention in Seattle: Inspiration for Kids
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    So much invention in Seattle: Inspiration for Kids

    ByEileen Ogintz November 5, 2015July 6, 2021

    The Museum of History and Industry, now in the historic Naval Reserve Armory at Lake Union Park, boasts the largest heritage organization in Washington State with nearly 4 million artifacts. It is a good place to start any family visit to Seattle.

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  • Baseball teaches an important American history lesson in Kansas City
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    Baseball teaches an important American history lesson in Kansas City

    ByEileen Ogintz October 29, 2015July 14, 2021

    They were among the best baseball players in the United States, traveling cross-country to play the game they loved before cheering fans. But they were often forced to sleep on their bus and eat peanut butter crackers.

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  • Delivery of Travel Content Dramatically Changes, Influencing Brands and Vacation Planners’ Decisions
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    Delivery of Travel Content Dramatically Changes, Influencing Brands and Vacation Planners’ Decisions

    ByEileen Ogintz October 28, 2015July 5, 2021

    News release: Family Travel Influencers at 5th TMS Family Travel Conference prove to be case study in travel industry content paradigm shift to social media

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  • Ireland’s Ashford Castle: very popular with American families
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    Ireland’s Ashford Castle: very popular with American families

    ByEileen Ogintz October 15, 2015July 15, 2021

    Ashford Castle, in western Ireland on 350 acres along the shores of Lough Corrib and the River Cong, is famous for its fishing and falconry but if you’re a boy just staying in a bona-fide castle is the real attraction.

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  • To a Colorado resort that’s no longer hard to reach
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    To a Colorado resort that’s no longer hard to reach

    ByEileen Ogintz October 8, 2015July 15, 2021

    Tiny Telluride is a popular place. Nestled in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, the mountain range has the highest concentration of 13,000 and 14,000 foot peaks in North America

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  • Time to celebrate Halloween everywhere all month
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    Time to celebrate Halloween everywhere all month

    ByEileen Ogintz October 1, 2015July 8, 2021

    No, I’m not a little early, though Halloween is nearly a month away. That’s because everyone from hotels to theme park to attractions to campgrounds to museums now have special Halloween doings that typically go on all month long.

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  • A local tour of Seattle’s Pike Place Market
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    A local tour of Seattle’s Pike Place Market

    ByEileen Ogintz September 28, 2015July 6, 2021

    We’ve signed on for Seattle’s only chef-led tour of the market with Elizabeth McClure’ new company Eat Seattle Tours. She also does cooking classes in the Market’s Atrium Kitchen, shopping with the students first for ingredients .

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  • Hotels restaurants increasingly focusing on local food and healthy choices
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    Hotels restaurants increasingly focusing on local food and healthy choices

    ByEileen Ogintz September 27, 2015July 15, 2021

    It is Friday night in Seattle. But what’s interesting is the Sazerac with its distinctive chandeliers and hip-but-casual vibe and food best described as modern South meets Northwest is in Kimpton’s Monaco Hotel.

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  • Innovation on display at Seattle Museum
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    Innovation on display at Seattle Museum

    ByEileen Ogintz September 25, 2015July 6, 2021

    Seattle has always been a center of innovation and it’s on display at the Bezos Center of Innovation at the Museum of History and Industry. Did you know the Native Americans and traders invented a whole new language?

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  • Get away from electronics to a fall festival or pumpkin patch
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    Get away from electronics to a fall festival or pumpkin patch

    ByEileen Ogintz September 23, 2015June 28, 2023

    Take advantage of the glorious fall weather wherever you live to get them away from electronics — you too — for a day or a weekend and head to a fall festival, an apple orchard or a pumpkin patch.

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  • A haunting visit to an elementary school in Hiroshima
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    A haunting visit to an elementary school in Hiroshima

    ByEileen Ogintz September 17, 2015July 16, 2021

    I’ve got chills as Amber Whaley, 12, and her friend Miko Uno, 11, lead us into their elementary school’s basement. This was all that was all that remained of the Honkawa Elementary School when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima 70 years ago this past August 6.

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  • Mexico in the fall – special insights into culture and heritage
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    Mexico in the fall – special insights into culture and heritage

    ByEileen Ogintz September 14, 2015July 10, 2021

    Visit Mexico during an annual festival and you will have special insight into the country’s cultural traditions and heritage. Mexico, of course, is a lot more than the sum of its beaches, as wonderful as they are.

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  • Getting out of the car at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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    Getting out of the car at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    ByEileen Ogintz September 10, 2015July 9, 2021

    Are you a windshield tourist? That’s what they call the many visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park who simply traverse the park’s famous 30-plus mile Newfound Gap Road through the park and don’t get out of the car much, if at all.

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  • Shopping in Tokyo’s ‘Kitchentown’
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    Shopping in Tokyo’s ‘Kitchentown’

    ByEileen Ogintz September 8, 2015August 8, 2025

    There’s shop after shop of kitchen wares—ceramic sake cups, wooden bowls for miso soup, colorful bowls for rice, all varieties of chop sticks and of course hand-made Japanese knives that will be engraved on the spot with your name in Japanese. And everything is a bargain!

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  • What for dinner in Tokyo? How about 14 courses, small but delicious?
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    What for dinner in Tokyo? How about 14 courses, small but delicious?

    ByEileen Ogintz September 6, 2015June 29, 2023

    If you think a 14-course dinner might be a little much to handle, come sample Chef Kenichiro Ooe’s fare at Kozue on the 40th floor of the Park Hyatt Tokyo with stellar views of the city.

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