family vacations
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3 genius mosquito tech solutions to keep your family itch free
Read Essay →: 3 genius mosquito tech solutions to keep your family itch freePreventing mosquitoes is one of my big concerns, especially this summer. Not only are they annoying and itchy, they carry…
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Family Staycations: 6 tips for making your time at home almost as big a deal as your time away
Read Essay →: Family Staycations: 6 tips for making your time at home almost as big a deal as your time awaySure, Spring Break is cool when you and the family are jetting off somewhere fun, but what about those of…
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6 smart travel apps to help you save money. How you spend the savings is up to you.
Read Essay →: 6 smart travel apps to help you save money. How you spend the savings is up to you.Spring is (finally) rounding the corner. That also means that prime travel season and spring break is about to begin,…
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7 creative video ideas to help preserve family memories in cool ways
Read Essay →: 7 creative video ideas to help preserve family memories in cool waysIt’s hard to believe that when our first children were born, capturing them on video meant getting out a clunky camera, hoping the batteries…
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Retro postcards go digital with the ScenePast app
Read Essay →: Retro postcards go digital with the ScenePast appEven though it’s easy to snap and share plenty of great vacation photos these days, I do miss those fun postcards…
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An app that will keep my kids happy in the car? Yes, please.
Read Essay →: An app that will keep my kids happy in the car? Yes, please.Sitting in the back seat of a car for hours on end–whether we’re on a cross-country road trip or just…
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The best road trip planning apps and websites? Reader Q+A:
Read Essay →: The best road trip planning apps and websites? Reader Q+A:What is the best app or website for plotting out a road trip? We want to be able to enter…
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MiniTime makes planning the perfect family vacation easier than ever
Read Essay →: MiniTime makes planning the perfect family vacation easier than everThe only place I ever seem to travel with my family during vacations is over the river and through the…
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Travel blogging gets easier with Trip Lens
Read Essay →: Travel blogging gets easier with Trip LensIf you’ve got a busy summer ahead of you with adventures in new and exciting places, and you like to…
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How do you make packing for family vacations easier?
Read Essay →: How do you make packing for family vacations easier?Any other parents in denial that the school year is coming to an end? Summer vacation beckons and lots of…
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5 smart tech tips for traveling with kids
Read Essay →: 5 smart tech tips for traveling with kidsIf your family is anything like mine, a vacation means loading up all the tech gadgets to keep the troops…
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Great educational kids’ apps for your spring road trips
Read Essay →: Great educational kids’ apps for your spring road tripsIf you like the idea of your kids playing with iPhone or iPad apps in the back seat to keep…
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Surviving the lines at Disney World? Undercover Tourist is the app for that
Read Essay →: Surviving the lines at Disney World? Undercover Tourist is the app for thatThis past weekend, I got through four fun-filled days at Disney World and emerged relatively unscathed from the perils of…
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The best apps for more sane holiday travel
Read Essay →: The best apps for more sane holiday travelSeeing family and friends over the holiday break is wonderful way to round out the year, but sometimes getting to…
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Stop the arguments in the backseat with cool car travel tech
Read Essay →: Stop the arguments in the backseat with cool car travel techAs the holidays fast approach, I give thanks for having family nearby, especially when I feel myself nodding sympathetically to…
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6 apps to help families survive the Thanksgiving road trip
Read Essay →: 6 apps to help families survive the Thanksgiving road tripIf you are among the millions of folks traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday, we’ve rounded up six cool apps that…
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4 iPad car mounts. a.k.a. 4 ways to avoid hearing “are we there yet?”
Read Essay →: 4 iPad car mounts. a.k.a. 4 ways to avoid hearing “are we there yet?”With holiday car travel hitting its peak this week (oh lord, I’m fearing I-95 on Wednesday), we know that the…
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Itinerus: Group travel without the hassle
Read Essay →: Itinerus: Group travel without the hassleThe idea of trips with the girlfriends or big family vacations sound amazing until you actually have to plan and…
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Piquing our geek – Gogo Vision makes flights even smoother
Read Essay →: Piquing our geek – Gogo Vision makes flights even smootherWith my husband being a pilot, we do our fair share of traveling. However with four kids, you can bet…
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Tripit is making me fall in love with travel again.
Read Essay →: Tripit is making me fall in love with travel again.With a ton of trips coming up, including the big BlogHer conference in San Diego this week, I feel like…