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  • Giant Redwoods and little yellow slugs – Day Four
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    Giant Redwoods and little yellow slugs – Day Four

    ByEileen Ogintz April 17, 2012July 9, 2021

    The Giant Redwoods, soaring hundreds of feet in the air, were amazing. But what was even better was the conversations with my daughter Reggie as we hiked through Butano State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains

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  • Exploring the coastal region near Half Moon Bay
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    Exploring the coastal region near Half Moon Bay

    ByEileen Ogintz April 16, 2012July 12, 2021

    This area is also home California’s first and only broad based ecotourism visitor program, through which more than 30 farmers, fisherman and business community members have come together to offer visitors hands-on activities and a chance to meet local residents.

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  • RVing vs camping? Why not both?
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    RVing vs camping? Why not both?

    ByEileen Ogintz April 15, 2012July 5, 2021

    Many suggest that despite gas prices RVing is cheaper than other vacations but the Muellers aren’t so sure. That wasn’t why they did it anyway—it was a lifestyle thing, to get outdoors with the kids.

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  • Day Two – exploring San Francisco’s Japantown
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    Day Two – exploring San Francisco’s Japantown

    ByEileen Ogintz April 13, 2012July 9, 2021

    Everyone knows San Francisco’s bustling, busy Chinatown, the largest outside of Asia.
    But Japantown? This area is worth exploring and not just for the food.

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  • Six days in San Francisco and Redwood country
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    Six days in San Francisco and Redwood country

    ByEileen Ogintz April 12, 2012July 9, 2021

    The Fairmont San Francisco’s Executive Chef jW Foster installed the beehives in the hotel’s 1,000-square foot culinary garden to help support the bee population which has dropped 90 per cent since the 1980s.

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  • Spiderman vs. Harry Potter at Universal Orlando
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    Spiderman vs. Harry Potter at Universal Orlando

    ByEileen Ogintz April 12, 2012July 6, 2021

    Move over, Harry Potter. Spider-Man has arrived. “I’m just not that into Harry Potter,” explains 16-year-old Jordan Madow who preferred the newly reanimated Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man

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  • How to get your teens to spend time with you
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    How to get your teens to spend time with you

    ByEileen Ogintz April 10, 2012July 6, 2021

    Question: How do you make two high school senior girls happy AND get them to spend time with you?

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  • Frozen Planet brings back memories of the Arctic
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    Frozen Planet brings back memories of the Arctic

    ByEileen Ogintz April 8, 2012July 5, 2021

    The new Discovery Channel series Frozen Planet is reminding me of the exceptional trip to the Artic Circle last summer. We were smack in the middle of a bustling fast food court—for Arctic animals.

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  • Teens meet DisneyWorld – really like Epcot
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    Teens meet DisneyWorld – really like Epcot

    ByEileen Ogintz April 5, 2012July 6, 2021

    When we got to Magic Kingdom the first day we were in DisneyWorld, it was a little overwhelming. After walking through Cinderella’s castle, we were greeted by Hannah Montana

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  • Learning animation on Disney’s cruise ship Fantasy
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    Learning animation on Disney’s cruise ship Fantasy

    ByEileen Ogintz April 5, 2012July 7, 2021

    Wow! Even the jaded 17 year olds I’m with are impressed. At the end of the show, each of our names — as we signed them on our placemat — is listed on the credits as “guest animator.”

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  • Two teens explore Universal Orlando and Harry Potter’s world
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    Two teens explore Universal Orlando and Harry Potter’s world

    ByEileen Ogintz April 4, 2012July 16, 2021

    Once we arrived at Universal we met up with Matt, our amazing tour guide, who immediately brought us to our most anticipated attraction, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

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  • Just a couple of teens on a Disney Cruise
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    Just a couple of teens on a Disney Cruise

    ByEileen Ogintz April 3, 2012July 7, 2021

    Jack Sparrow greeted us, along with crystal clear, bright blue waters and white sandy beaches. We walked past the first beach because it was a little crowded, but found chairs AND, much to our content, a water slide at the second beach

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  • Learning local history adds to vacation memories
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    Learning local history adds to vacation memories

    ByEileen Ogintz March 30, 2012July 16, 2021

    Since we’re here on a girl’s getaway, we find it amusing that at the height of the mining boom in the 1900 census, there were 22 seamstresses in Park City but only two sewing machines.

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  • A club dedicated to getting moms back on the slopes
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    A club dedicated to getting moms back on the slopes

    ByEileen Ogintz March 29, 2012July 16, 2021

    Welcome to Park City Mountain Resort’s new Ladies’ Club, offered certain days of the week. Women who hadn’t skied in a while, said Martell, “didn’t want a high powered clinic. They just wanted an opportunity to get back on the mountain in a non-threatening way.”

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  • Touring the old city of Dubrovnik, Croatia
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    Touring the old city of Dubrovnik, Croatia

    ByEileen Ogintz March 29, 2012June 28, 2023

    The city’s medieval walls helped protect the city and there was tremendous international publicity decrying the bombing of this historic city and in favor of granting Croatia diplomatic recognition.

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  • Luxe and lots of powder at Deer Valley UT
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    Luxe and lots of powder at Deer Valley UT

    ByEileen Ogintz March 28, 2012July 16, 2021

    For those who can afford luxe on the slopes, tt doesn’t get any better than the ski-in, ski-out Montage (with its own Compass Sports rental shop and ski valet where they buckle and unbuckle your boots) and Deer Valley

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  • Good eats in and around Park City UT
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    Good eats in and around Park City UT

    ByEileen Ogintz March 27, 2012July 16, 2021

    Here as well as at neighboring Deer Valley –which led the industry in providing good mountain eats—we’re seeing ever better food with an emphasis on what is locally sourced.

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  • Meet Holly Flanders – and make time for yourself on the slopes
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    Meet Holly Flanders – and make time for yourself on the slopes

    ByEileen Ogintz March 26, 2012July 16, 2021

    Flanders teaches women’s ski workshops at Canyons—I thoroughly enjoyed one a few years ago—but now has a new mission—to convince women they need to make that time, no matter what else is going on in their lives.

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  • Remembering a great adventure in the high Chilean desert
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    Remembering a great adventure in the high Chilean desert

    ByEileen Ogintz March 25, 2012July 16, 2021

    It’s only 10 a.m. but I feel like we’ve been going all day. That’s because we left our hotel Tierra Atacama before dawn—I’d never seen such bright stars across the desert sky—on our way to the highest geyser field in the world—El Tatio Geisers at 14,190 feet!

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  • A visit to see the biggest Budda in the world
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    A visit to see the biggest Budda in the world

    ByEileen Ogintz March 22, 2012July 16, 2021

    Not just any giant Buddha but the Tian Tan Buddha, the world’s largest outdoor sitting Buddha — some 98 feet tall and weighing 250 tons, his humongous right hand raised to deliver a blessing to all.

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