by user | Mar 28, 2014 | Destinations, Families & Groups, Snow Vacations, Travel Diary, Travel Topics
By Meghan McCloskey, Taking the Kids Correspondent Don’t worry about buying new ski gear. Just pull your old ski gear out of the box in your garage; you’ll feel right at home at laid-back Monarch Mountain. People are here to ski, not to impress. Monarch is...
by user | Mar 18, 2014 | Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Snow Vacations, Travel Diary, Travel Topics, Volunteer & Service
By Andy Yemma, Taking the Kids Correspondent It’s 283 miles from Westport CT to Bolton Valley VT. Why would three sane adult males drive that far for a day-and-a-half of skiing and snowboarding with a group of five high school boys when there are bigger and...
by user | Mar 11, 2014 | Backyard Vacations, Destinations, Families & Groups, Snow Vacations, Travel Diary, Travel Topics
By Meghan McCloskey, Taking the Kids Correspondent We had a lot on the line for our first ski trip out west together. I wanted my fiancé, Jonathan to fall in love with skiing as badly as I had so that he would accompany me on endless ski trips in the future. I knew...
by user | Feb 27, 2014 | Backyard Vacations, Beach Vacations, Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Snow Vacations, Travel Topics, Weekly Column
By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency Are you ready to trade snow boots for flip-flops? Ah, sunshine! You’ve never needed a little fun in the sun more than now after a winter that’s repeatedly buried us in snow and ice — even in the South — and given us school snow...
by user | Feb 20, 2014 | Destinations, Families & Groups, Lodging, Snow Vacations, Travel Topics, Weekly Column
By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency I wish I was as fearless as the kids. It seems kids have no fear … on ski slopes, anyway, even when it’s dumping snow and the wind is howling on Breckenridge Mountain, located two hours west of Denver. We’re above the tree line...
