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Our reviews of the top family vacation destinations and trip ideas organized by keywords (Italy, Caribbean, teens, etc) and topic (snowsports, spa, etc) to make your research easier.

Indianapolis With Kids

Indianapolis With Kids

Indiana is best known for its sports triumphs, but in addition, Indianapolis is home to a number of family-friendly activities -- including the largest children's museum in the world -- that make it perfect for a Midwestern getaway. The Indy 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the NFL...

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The Road to Excellence

The stage lights turn on and everyone takes their seat and adjusts their stand; the moment is finally here.  We raise our instruments and take our first deep breath; everyone hears our director’s mantra in their head, “one, two...breathe...”  Currently, we’re...

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A Life Changing Moment at a Football Game (of all places)!

Sometimes, short moments in someone’s life can influence them forever.             It was my first Giants away game. It was a battle between the Giants and the Colts at Indianapolis: a sibling rivalry between Eli and Peyton Manning. I...

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Route 66 Adventure

One of my most favorite and memorable trips was of course with my family. We went on this trip that at first I thought was going to be awful because of the long car ride and because it was no Disney World or other adventurous places. It wasn’t until we started stopping at cool places that I...

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Indiana Discoveries

I have discovered that Indiana is an awe-inspiring state, the scenery, the weather and the people will all make you want to stay. I decided to make my visit to Indiana in April 2012, it was supposed to be on an explorative basis but it turned to something more. A few days after my plane landed and...

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Indiana Wind Farm, Lafayette, Indiana

Keep Your Eye on the Prize

            I never thought that starting over would include the state of Indiana. At the age of twenty-one my life fell apart, it started with my marriage and ended at my job. One day I decided it was time move away; I packed up all of the belongings left to...

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Braving the Cold with a Friend

There comes a time in a boy’s life when he wants to stick out his chest and declare “I am a man!” He reads about heroes in history who had set out to do manly things, who got their hands dirty and had to build fires to keep warm. Growing up in town, with loving and watchful parents who made...

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Surprising Indiana

  Indiana is the state known for football and NASCAR racing; not the place where a family goes on their vacation. Despite the lack of vacationing attractions Indiana proved itself to be interesting, and at most fun. My family and I left early one Wednesday morning from our home in...

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The Trip That Changed My Life

It was this past summer when I went to Catholic Heart Work Camp for the very first time, and let me tell you I don't regret it. Our youth group woke up four in the morning, got on a school bus, and headed up north to Mishawaka, Indiana where the camp was being held. After the twelve...

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Nine Days; One Million Memories

  Two words. Road Trip. So much excitement is brought forward when one is in the planning. There are endless possibilities for direction of travel, the type of transportation and how many memories will be made. My family went on a nine day road trip beginning on June twenty-...

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