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  • A VERY GREEN SKI RESORT
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    A VERY GREEN SKI RESORT

    ByEileen Ogintz February 23, 2009July 16, 2021

    I feel like a crazy person! We’re 12 in our gang, ranging from a four year-old to two twenty somethings and a grandma who just turned 60. If you think getting your kids out the door to school or day care in the morning is tough, imagine getting them geared up for a day on the snow!

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  • A new style all-inclusive resort on Mexico’s Riviera Maya
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    A new style all-inclusive resort on Mexico’s Riviera Maya

    ByEileen Ogintz February 22, 2009June 28, 2023

    My mission: To see if a vacation with active teens and young adults can be successful at an all-inclusive resort. Conclusion: “yes”

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  • SIX LITTLE SKIERS ALL IN A ROW
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    SIX LITTLE SKIERS ALL IN A ROW

    ByEileen Ogintz February 22, 2009July 16, 2021

    Beaver Creek is a Vail Resort — about 10 minutes from famous Vail in fact — but it is a parallel universe. Even on a busy weekend, it is not crowded. The resort is known for its stellar learning terrain, kids’ school and green easy trails at the top of the mountain, though there is plenty of extreme terrain too.

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  • How snow sports can transform a child’s life
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    How snow sports can transform a child’s life

    ByEileen Ogintz February 15, 2009June 28, 2023

    “This is a lot more than teaching kids how to turn on the mountain. This is about using sports to do character development.”

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  • To the Mohonk Mountain House
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    To the Mohonk Mountain House

    ByEileen Ogintz February 1, 2009June 28, 2023

    There it is, right in front of us, a castle, a sprawling, Victorian castle, just a couple of hours north of New York City.

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  • To Stowe Vermont and elsewhere in snow country
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    To Stowe Vermont and elsewhere in snow country

    ByEileen Ogintz January 25, 2009June 28, 2023

    I’ve forsaken the slopes today, as terrific as they are at the brand-new Spruce Peak base area at Stowe Mountain Resort. I’m snowshoeing at the nearby Trapp Family Lodge

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  • To Oaxaca, Mexico
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    To Oaxaca, Mexico

    ByEileen Ogintz January 18, 2009June 28, 2023

    Oaxaca is in the southeastern part of Mexico and we’ve come here for a few days of cultural immersion after a week lazing on the beach

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  • A lesson in Mexican cooking on our last day in Oaxaca
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    A lesson in Mexican cooking on our last day in Oaxaca

    ByEileen Ogintz January 17, 2009July 16, 2021

    Welcome to Seasons of My Heart Cooking School ) that is run by well-known chef Susana Trilling, an American from Philadelphia who fell in love with Mexico on vacation more than 20 years ago and has lived here most of the time since, raising her two kids here.

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  • An ancient way of making pottery and a unique wood carver
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    An ancient way of making pottery and a unique wood carver

    ByEileen Ogintz January 16, 2009July 16, 2021

    Talk about loving your work. Eighty-eight year old Dona Sophia Reyes is a potter who works seven days a week and hasn’t had a day off since she was eight, she tells us when she welcomes us into her studio and home in San Bartelo Coyotepec, a village about 25 minutes from Oaxaca City.

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  • An adventure through the Oaxacan countryside
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    An adventure through the Oaxacan countryside

    ByEileen Ogintz January 15, 2009July 16, 2021

    We are on our bikes riding on dirt roads passing alfalfa and corn fields, passing locals hauling alfalfa by donkey carts. It is day two of a trip to Oaxaca in Central Mexico that Austin Lehman Adventures (www.austinlehman.com) has arranged for our family.

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