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I’d been putting off the Smokies for years. Too crowded, I figured. Too touristy. Then my sister-in-law dragged us there last October, and within about twenty minutes of driving into the park — fog rolling through the valleys, my kids…
The first time I drove through the Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel, my kids were half asleep in the backseat. Then we came out the other side, and my eight-year-old literally gasped. Red canyon walls towering a thousand feet straight up, the…
My seven-year-old stood at the edge of the Tunnel View overlook, mouth literally hanging open, and said “that’s not real.” I get it. The first time you see Yosemite Valley spread out below you — El Capitan on the left,…
My seven-year-old stood at the edge of Mather Point, grabbed my arm, and whispered, “Mom, that’s not real.” And honestly? I kind of agreed with her. You can look at a thousand photos of the Grand Canyon and still not…
My seven-year-old was standing on a boardwalk in Yellowstone, watching Old Faithful build toward its eruption, and he turned to me with this look on his face — total disbelief that what he was seeing was actually real. That moment…
My seven-year-old was standing on a boardwalk in Yellowstone, watching Old Faithful build toward its eruption, and he turned to me with this look on his face — total disbelief that what he was seeing was actually real. That moment…
I sat down to write this article and almost gave up before I started. Not because I didn’t have enough to say — but because there are about four thousand “best family vacations in the USA” lists out there, and…
I remember standing on the gangway of our first cruise ship, holding a car seat in one hand and a diaper bag the size of a body pillow in the other, watching my four-year-old sprint toward the elevators like he’d…
I was standing ankle-deep in the water at Cape Cod last July, watching my youngest build what he called a “sand castle hotel” while my oldest skimmed stones across water so calm it looked like a lake. That’s the thing…
I spent three days making a spreadsheet. Three days. I was trying to figure out which “all-inclusive” family resorts in the US were actually all-inclusive — like, meals and activities and drinks included, not just a hotel room with a…