Today we went up a mountain with the car and we found a house because on the next day we were going to hike the Pic du Canigou. The house was beautiful and inside it was comfy. We got the keys and went upstairs into our room. It was medium size and there were two [...]
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When my friends Christine and Martin invited us to meet them at Young Lakes in the Yosemite National Park, I picked up the phone and secured a Wilderness Permit for four people right away – my husband and I, plus our girls ages 6 and 7. That was last spring and our trip was planned [...]
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Some kids are natural-born frisbee players. Others spend most their frisbee play-time securing their frisbee’s safe return after it landed in the neighbor’s backyard. I have one of each – an 8-year old girl who aims so well I take cover when she throws a book at me and a 7-year old girl whose eyesight I keep checking because she bumps into furniture and drops things but no says the doctor she sees fine, she’s just clumsy.
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Way back when I started camping with kids, this book would have been a savior. Not just to help me relax about the whole ordeal, but maybe I would have packed a second fuel cartridge and not run out of fuel mid-pancakes. Or I would have checked the batteries in our headlamps before discovering the [...]
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Summer days with kids don’t get any better than around Lake Tahoe when your morning starts on a sandy shore with beach toys and ends with a cool drink overlooking the lake’s sapphire blue waters. Picture Hawaii Big Island with sugar pines instead of coconut trees and fire-oven pizzas instead of pork luaus. Every year [...]
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