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Is The Middle East Safe For Family Travel On A budget?
By May 19, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

Is The Middle East Safe For Family Travel On A budget?

Traveling can be stressful under the best of circumstances, but when you are planning a trip overseas the stress increases. When you toss in a destination that might be featured on the nightly news–well, what’s a parent to do? I am a firm believer in traveling and have taken my own kids to some destinations that other might consider “dicey.” However, I am not stupid. I do not put us in harm’s way and I travel responsibly and very aware of my surroundings. Some simple rules will go a long…
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Travels With Brenda
By August 15, 2010 2 Comments Read More →

Travels With Brenda

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 outdoor ceremony at the foothills of the Rockies. And I am pleased to announce a Single Parent Tour to Ecuador and the Galapagos in early August 2011. Please email me at Brenda@maximtours.com and I…
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National Park Week
By April 15, 2010 0 Comments Read More →

National Park Week

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!…
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The Traveling Pants
By December 20, 2008 0 Comments Read More →

The Traveling Pants

Brenda sent along this note and I thought–why didn’t I think of that!  But what a fantastic idea for a great memory. When my physical therapist and her sister were in their early teens, their parents divorced.  Their father decided to embrace his new role as a single parent.  Shortly after the separation, he took his 2 daughters for a 2 week trip, a week in London and a week in Israel.  Not knowing how to occupy them for the long plane trip (this was before the proliferation of our…
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