~ Seeing the City of of Frankfurt with an expert Guide~ If you travel long enough, you eventually have to succumb to a lousy airplane schedule that leaves you with a long layover. My number was up on a recent trip to France that connected through Geneva and had a layover in Frankfurt. Counting up the numbers, I had an…
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I like to say that our 10,000 mile road trip was a trip six years in the making, mostly because it makes the trip- and its planner -seem much more epic. The truth is, the actually paper planning part of the trip could have been done in mere months (or weeks, if I completely ignored my children.) But, there were…
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~Sunset over the wing of the plane somewhere over the Atlantic~ This could be any morning in my normal life. Kids are waking up, getting breakfast, and packing backpacks for school. Laundry needs to be done and dishes are scattered all over the table. But instead of my suburban cul-de-sac outside the window the Alps preside like proud mothers with…
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International travel is the height of glamor. Getting there is not. What they don’t tell you when you are looking at those glossy brochures of Paris and Barcelona, is that it will take you 18 hours and two layovers to get to your destination. You will not shower. You will be cramped. You will be forced to try to sleep…
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Kids have a way of hitting you with the really heavy stuff in such a nonchalant way that it knocks you back on your heels. They can just be eating their Cheerios or lazily playing with their toys, and out of their mouths comes a weighty question that demands pause. That was scenario recently when my eight year old, never…
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