Single Parent Travel

Because I have a young son, I often focus on what to do with young kids.  However, I realize that pre-teens & teenagers aren’t going to jump up and down when presented with some of the options I wrote about in “Things to Do in Omaha with the Under-5 Set.”  After talking to several teens [...]

Over the past year, I’ve learned that one of bravest things you can do is travel with small children.  On top of the standard travel headaches like the extra packing, the potential for a crying jab on the airplane and other minor catastropes, small children don’t always “fit in” at the standard tourist destinations.  I’ve [...]

Dear SPT Readers, At last a long overdue travel blurb is ready for your read.  My travels this past year have taken me mostly throughout the USA so I have some great family travel tips for you for some fly/drive or driving vacations. My daughter Monique was married this past May in a gloriously beautiful [...]

The 110-year-old, family-owned Bayview Wildwood Resort is one of the closest lakeside getaways to Toronto.  Situated in the historic lakefront village of Port Stanton on the shores of Sparrow Lake, the resort is just minutes away from the port city of Orillia. Modern conveniences and comfortably appointed lake view accommodations ranging from suites to four [...]

If you are anywhere near a National Park, take advantage of free admission to all of them this coming week.  It is National Park Week and admission to all 392 of them will be waived this week. Details here!

The past few months has been a whirlwind of travel – my first trip to the Brazilian Amazon and an area called Recife, in the far northeast of Brazil, plus an inspection trip to Peru (my third trip to Machu Picchu and my first to the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, where I visited the [...]

Yesterday, we had the chance to take a sunset sail on the Schooner Woodwind II along side her sister, Woodwind. As many of you know, the Woodwind was featured in the hit movie Wedding Crashers. Nothing beats a sunset sail operated by Schooner Woodwind Cruises.  The cruises include a snack and a soft drink and [...]

It is that time of year again to start thinking about national park vacations and day trips into state parks.   Last Thanksgiving I spent several days at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon (my 3rd trip to the big canyon) and currently am taking a 4 session evening weather class at Denver University.    Although [...]

Dear Readers, I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year. Much of 2008 was spent exploring  my new home state of Colorado.  In this two part newsletter I will share with you some of the exciting and offbeat family attractions this beautiful state has to offer, along with a report [...]

This article discusses additional ways to hand over travel responsibilities to your kid(s) so that you, the single parent, do not have to carry the entire “responsibility burden.” In a previous article, I discussed ways for your older kids, age nine or ten and above, to become skillful map readers and navigators, freeing you to [...]