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  • RVing and camping — finding togetherness
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    RVing and camping — finding togetherness

    ByEileen Ogintz August 5, 2010June 28, 2023

    Certainly tent camping was cheaper and many suggest that 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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  • The joys of RVing — economical and fun!
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    The joys of RVing — economical and fun!

    ByEileen Ogintz August 4, 2010June 28, 2023

    The Garlands were dedicated RVers long before they bought the park. They still meet up at campgrounds with California friends they met when Mary was in a Mom’s group. Many of today’s campgrounds, she adds, give you the option to tent camp, bring an RV or stay in a cabin

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  • Reggie and Eileen on the Kilimanjaro trek
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    The Obamas and mother daughter trips

    ByEileen Ogintz August 3, 2010June 28, 2023

    For once, Michelle Obama isn’t creating a trend. She’s doing what’s trendy. I’m talking about her mother-daughter trip to Spain this week with Sasha while Malia is at sleep away camp.

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  • On the road in a fabulous RV in Colorado
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    On the road in a fabulous RV in Colorado

    ByEileen Ogintz August 3, 2010June 28, 2023

    We’re OFF! A 32-foot RV stocked with food from Costco, toys, movies, two kids aged five and eight, two parents and me. The family is my cousins the SItzmans, who live in Denver. We’re off on a weeklong RV trip across Southwestern Colorado in a home away from home from Winnebago

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  • Big Apple Greeter Tour on the Brooklyn Bridge
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    To New York City for the First Time

    ByEileen Ogintz July 29, 2010October 18, 2023

    Big Apple Greeters — it seems such a simple idea – to connect locals enthusiastic about their city to first-time visitors or those simply visiting from elsewhere. Now, because of the economic crisis, the nonprofit organization has found itself in a financial crunch of its own and must come up with $300,000 in new funding by the fall if they are to continue. (Are you listening major travel companies?)

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  • How Harry Potter has changed teens’ wake up times
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    How Harry Potter has changed teens’ wake up times

    ByEileen Ogintz July 27, 2010June 28, 2023

    Thanks, Harry. Suddenly, teens, college students and even twenty somethings who aren’t big fans of family vacations much less getting out of bed early are standing in line before 9 a.m. with their parents, positively giddy with excitement

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  • If you thought you could get away without buying your baby a plane seat, think again
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    If you thought you could get away without buying your baby a plane seat, think again

    ByEileen Ogintz July 22, 2010June 28, 2023

    For years, everyone from the FAA to the American Academy of Pediatrics has been saying that young children are safest when restrained in a safety seat on board an airplane

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  • Aboard the Megaship Norwegian Epic
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    Aboard the Megaship Norwegian Epic

    ByEileen Ogintz July 22, 2010June 28, 2023

    SPLAT! The water balloons pop on cue. The music is loud and energetic, with Nickelodeon dancers dressed in orange and green — down to their plastic orange-and-green Crocs — spurring on the crowd, some of whom came dripping wet from the waterslides, including the Epic Plunge, the biggest waterslide at sea, just for the chance

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  • Sometimes the best vacation experiences are free
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    Sometimes the best vacation experiences are free

    ByEileen Ogintz July 19, 2010June 28, 2023

    Since New York started this program in 1992, the Big Apple Greeters have squired around 95,000 visitors from around the world and have a cadre of more than 300 Greeters who range from 20-somethings to those in their eighties who share a passion for New York that they want to pass on to you.

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  • To Provincetown — Not Just for Gay and Lesbian Couples
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    To Provincetown — Not Just for Gay and Lesbian Couples

    ByEileen Ogintz July 15, 2010June 28, 2023

    Had we been here in the 1800s, we would have been hunting whales rather than photographing them. Provincetown was a very busy whaling port.

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