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25 and Vacations With Your Kids: Family Travel Articles, Tips, & Guides
ARTICLES AND TIPS ABOUT 25: 25 Family Vacations and Trips with Your Kids
SKI WOLF CREEK, PAGOSA SPRINGS, COLORADO - Wolf Creek Ski Area, is just 25 miles Pagosa Springs, SW Colorado. It is a wonderful family and snow board friendly non-resort resort.
INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: TRAVEL BRIEF - National parks and national preserves boast some of the most beautiful land in the country, and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is no exception. It runs for nearly 25 miles along southern Lake Michigan and sits on approximately 15,000 acres -- 2,182 of which are located in Indiana Dunes State Park. The park contains miles of beaches, sand dunes, bog, wetlands, woodland forests, an 1830's French-Canadian homestead, and a working 1900-era farm.
LOESS HILLS, IOWA - The Loess Hills, which the wind sculpted from silt deposits as glaciers retreated eons ago, dominate a narrow section of western Iowa in the Big Sioux and Missouri River valleys. The region stretches from Akron (about 25 miles north of Sioux City) south through the Council Bluffs area to Hamburg, just north of the Missouri state line. While the silty loess (pronounced "luss") soil is common, it's accumulated in such proportions in only a few places (Germany, China and Iowa).
ITALIAN NEIGHBORHOODS OF NEW YORK CITY, PART 2 - Besides the area of lower Manhattan called Little Italy, New York has other pockets of Italian culture. Remnants of the Italian community in Greenwich Village (in New York, it's just called The Village) can still be found, at Our Lady of Pompeii Church, 25 Carmine St., Faicco Pork Stores, 260 Bleecker
ATHENS AFTER THE OLYMPICS - News Update 26 July As part of their security arrangements for the forthcoming Olympics, Athens authorities held a combined security transport drill yesterday, 25 July. The three hour exercise codenamed 'Olympic Hermes' coordinated both ground and air police in checking a part of the multi-million dollar security network being set up
FLORAL GARDENS COMMEMORATE PEACE - I'm driving north on Highway #3 from the geographical center of North America at Rugby, North Dakota through a prairie pot hole landscape of ponds amid grain fields and pastures. About 25 miles from Rugby, just beyond Dunseith, the road climbs and I'm looking at wooded hills known as the Turtle
TWO STUDIES EXAMINE CHILD-CARE ARRANGEMENTS AND COSTS - Two Studies Examine Child-Care Arrangements and Costs Almost three-fourths of infants and toddlers with working mothers are spending time in child care, and many of those young children are spending at least 25 hours a week in child-care settings, according to one of the first studies to examine the child-care arrangements of children under 3...
CENSUS SHOWS THE CHANGING FACE OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS - Census Shows the Changing Face Of U.S. Households Fewer than a fourth of U.S. households are made up of married couples with children under 18---a slight decline from 1990, when just over 25 percent of households were composed of married couples with children, according to figures released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau...
LIFE'S A WILD TRIP - Life's a Wild Trip 25 bold, epic, soul-nourishing experiences that every true adventurer must seek out -- from the relatively plush and classic to the cutting-edge and hard-core...
WILD HORIZONS: THE TOP 25 TRIPS FOR 2005 - Wild Horizons: The Top 25 Trips for 2005 From never-before-attempted expeditions in hidden corners of the globe to brand-new takes on the Earth's classics, here are 25 once-in-a-lifetime journeys that are just right for right now.
HOW TO SAIL ACROSS THE ATLANTIC (OR THE WORLD) IN 25 EASY LESSONS - How to Sail Across the Atlantic (or the World) in 25 Easy Lessons Storm-tossed seas, speedboat pirates, sleeping whales, exploding toilets--crossing the Atlantic has its risks. But if a novice skipper can make the trip safely, so can you.
HOLLAND: BIKING THROUGH THE TULIPS. - A special bicycle route of 16 mile/ 25 kilometres takes bicycling enthusiasts through the dunes and the bulb-growing region to the gates of Keukenhof. The Noordwijk Spring Garden bicycle trip is offered daily by the VVV Tourist Office in Noordwijk during May. The bicycling package map, admission to the Keukenhof, and coffee with snack.
DESTINATIONS: ECUADOR - This is about 25 minutes outside of Quito. This monument is located where the Equator was first "discovered" with real accuracy. "0 Longitude "0 Latitude. You can stand only inches apart from your child and be in two separate hemispheres (which is what it feels like most of the time at home anyway). The monument area is surrounded but a breathtaking 360 degree view of mountains. You can go into the monument for US $1 per person and small kids don't pay but there is no particular age. If you have a tall kid, they may charge you the $1.
BEFORE YOU GO: WHERE TO STAY WITH KIDS : CONVENIENCE - My favorite landlady of all time, 83 or 85 years old (she claimed to have forgotten when she was born) when she passed away, would complain that life was all a matter of time versus money. At 25 she had time but no money (there being no Internet stocks available then). In her 40's she had some money but found it hard to take much more than a week or two off work.
ATHENS AFTER THE OLYMPICS - News Update 26 July As part of their security arrangements for the forthcoming Olympics, Athens authorities held a combined security transport drill yesterday, 25 July. The three hour exercise codenamed 'Olympic Hermes' coordinated both ground and air police in checking a part of the multi-million dollar security network being set up
FLORAL GARDENS COMMEMORATE PEACE - I'm driving north on Highway #3 from the geographical center of North America at Rugby, North Dakota through a prairie pot hole landscape of ponds amid grain fields and pastures. About 25 miles from Rugby, just beyond Dunseith, the road climbs and I'm looking at wooded hills known as the Turtle
ITALIAN NEIGHBORHOODS OF NEW YORK CITY, PART 2 - Besides the area of lower Manhattan called Little Italy, New York has other pockets of Italian culture. Remnants of the Italian community in Greenwich Village (in New York, it's just called The Village) can still be found, at Our Lady of Pompeii Church, 25 Carmine St., Faicco Pork Stores, 260 Bleecker
DESTINATIONS: ECUADOR - This is about 25 minutes outside of Quito. This monument is located where the Equator was first "discovered" with real accuracy. "0 Longitude "0 Latitude. You can stand only inches apart from your child and be in two separate hemispheres (which is what it feels like most of the time at home anyway). The monument area is surrounded but a breathtaking 360 degree view of mountains. You can go into the monument for US $1 per person and small kids don't pay but there is no particular age. If you have a tall kid, they may charge you the $1.
BEFORE YOU GO: WHERE TO STAY WITH KIDS : CONVENIENCE - My favorite landlady of all time, 83 or 85 years old (she claimed to have forgotten when she was born) when she passed away, would complain that life was all a matter of time versus money. At 25 she had time but no money (there being no Internet stocks available then). In her 40's she had some money but found it hard to take much more than a week or two off work.
DESTINATIONS: ECUADOR AND QUITO ATTRACTIONS - This is about 25 minutes outside of Quito. This monument is located where the Equator was first "discovered" with real accuracy. "0 Longitude "0 Latitude. You can stand only inches apart from your child and be in two separate hemispheres (which is what it feels like most of the time at home anyway). The monument area is surrounded but a breathtaking 360 degree view of mountains. You can go into the monument for US $1 per person and small kids don't pay but there is no particular age. If you have a tall kid, they may charge you the $1.
