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The best family vacations in the USA with a state-by-state guide to travel in the 50 States and more family vacations in America.

Floyd Friday Night Jamboree

Banjo, Folk, Country Songs - Driving Appalachia's Crooked Road

Spend a weekend in Floyd watching fiddle pickers perform and you start to love bluegrass (if you don't already). Slow down to string banjoes with luthiers in Galax and you'll begin to understand the heritage of southern Virginia. With the richly detailed guide, A Guide to the Crooked Road:...

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 Lavender Fields in the Eastern Townships

Boulangeries and Mercis in the Eastern Townships of Quebec

About 150 miles south of Quebec and maybe 90 miles east of Montreal, The Eastern Townships of Canada (Cantons De L'Est,) are so French, you may have to brush up on your language skills. The villages and hamlets are French Canadian enclaves, and while many may bear English names, they boast a...

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View of Cedar Breaks Canyons from Brian Head

Kids R Us At Utah's Brian Head Resort

Brian Head, Utah is a family-oriented mountain resort which offers first-class alpine skiing, a terrific kids programs and nursery, and a host of winter and summer activities for all ages.  With a lodge at 9,600 feet, it is the state's highest base village averaging an annual 400" of...

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ECO Friendly Travel

Eco travel an innovation to spread an awareness to save the environment

Nowadays, eco-tourism industry is a rapid developing area. It is getting famous and is being admired by all the tourists all around the world. Eco travel is designing a dependable holiday to the places that maintain the atmosphere. As the main concern of eco- friendly travel to make people...

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Newport Mansion

Newport, Rhode Island, a Four Season Family Vacation Destination

Newport, Rhode Island’s reputation as a summer playground for the elite is justified, but it doesn’t paint the whole picture.  Yes, you will see fabulous Gilded Age mansions and expensive sailing yachts, worthy of the town’s America’s Cup history. But Newport is a very...

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Memphis, Tennessee And Martin Luther King Jr.

Memphis, Tennessee And Martin Luther King Jr.

With all the excitement about the new Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington DC, families should not miss an opportunity to visit "his" museum: The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Each winter, this fascinating collection runs several special family programs in honor...

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Texas Pie Company, Kyle, Texas

Austin Beyond the City Limits

We recently visited Austin, Texas on a nostalgia tour led by my husband, a long-ago resident.  Our son was delighted to see the town made famous by SXSW and my husband, well, he's at that age where revisiting the haunts of his youth is fun.  I had spent time in Austin back in 1986 and...

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Kauai, Hawaii Attractions

Kauai, Hawaii Attractions

Aloha! Has George Clooney's family bonding trip to Kauai in "The Descendants" tempted your family to do the same? There is so much for the active family to enjoy year round in this eco-tourism destination that it's now called the "Adventure Island" of Hawaii. ...

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Drum Point Lighthouse, Maryland

Maryland Beach Resorts Along The Chesapeake Bay

We have discovered that the Twin Beaches along Maryland's west coast are as perfect for a family vacation as the better known eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay. Rich in seafaring heritage, outdoor recreation, water sports, fishing – and, of course, great seafood -- southern Maryland’s...

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Ottawa, Canada: Audio PostCard

Remember when sounds stirred the theater of the mind? When audio transported us magically to a place and our imaginations carried us? Please listen to this Ottawa Travel Audio PostCard and enjoy the trip.

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