This is how to vacation with a purpose
Don’t waste your next trip by just sitting around your vacation destination. Do something you’ll remember for the rest of your life: Take a vacation with a purpose.
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Holiday family travel: here’s the complete survival guide
When it comes to holiday family travel, the so-called “experts” would like you to think it’s easy. Just read a few tips and then have a smooth trip to grandma’s for the holidays, or a late-year getaway to the mountains.
That’s nonsense.
How to end your vacation the right way
One of the hardest parts of a vacation, if not the hardest, is coming home. The excitement’s over — now it’s back to work. But it’s even worse if you don’t know how to end your vacation.
This is how to avoid food fights on vacation
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time thinking about food when you travel. And if you have kids, they spend even more time having food fights on vacation.
How to find yourself on vacation
Don’t bother trying to find yourself on vacation, most travel experts tell me. You won’t. Journeys of self-reflection, pilgrimages, and gap years are meaningless.
I beg to differ.
The divine truth about a spiritual vacation
If you’re searching for transcendence, connection or meaning in your life, maybe you’ve contemplated a spiritual vacation. You know, getting away to discover a greater truth. And maybe you’ve also wondered if your family is comfortable with that kind of inner journey.
Family vacations are boring — and that’s awesome!
Family vacations are boring. If you don’t believe me, just ask your kids, and they’ll tell you how boring they are. They’re very boring. (At least that’s what mine tell me when we travel.)
But let’s explore that truth. Kids say “very boring” as if it’s a bad thing, but maybe it isn’t.
This is the most beautiful place on Earth to visit
Sedona, Ariz., calls itself “the most beautiful place on Earth,” and that may be true. But if it is, then it shares the title with several other destinations.
How to survive an extreme weather vacation
Extreme weather can happen at any time. But when it interrupts your vacation, you’re in real trouble. Consider my recent misadventure when my oldest son, Aren, and I hiked up our favorite trail during Arizona’s famously unpredictable monsoon season.
How to play these road trip games — and win
When you think of road trip games, “I Spy” or the “License Plate Game” probably comes to mind. Forget those. The games you really want to know about are the mindgames your fellow travelers play with you.