On the Road

Seafoodwatch.org

January 25, 2009

We vis­ited the Monterey Bay Aquarium on our recent trip to California and were intro­duced to the Sea Food Watch pro­gram there. The pro­gram seeks to edu­cate lit­tle and grown folks alike about the envi­ron­men­tal impacts of our fish choices through their inter­ac­tive exhibit and web­site.  Sea Food Watch also offers a well-researched and regularly […]

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Franklin, PA Applefest 2008

December 10, 2008

On our trip to Pennsylvania way back in October, we caught the 2008 Franklin Applefest. This was the biggest arts & crafts fair I have expe­ri­enced since the Midwestern hol­i­day bazaars my mother par­tic­i­pated in back in the 1980s, and now that I have hol­i­days on the brain I really wish I had had the […]

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Just round­ing out my blog updates with a lit­tle nepo­tism… You can sup­port my favorite pho­tog­ra­pher by pur­chas­ing one of his cus­tom 2009 cal­en­dars as a gift for some­one on your list this hol­i­day sea­son. Adam spe­cial­izes in land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy and has cap­tured The Rockies, The Pacific Northwest, Yosemite, and even some flow­ers for us […]

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We kicked off October with a trip to explore my Pennsylvania roots. In addi­tion to qual­ity fam­ily time with my really cool aunts, the kids expe­ri­enced their first touristy week­end in Venango County. Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad & Caboose Motel may not be worth the 6 hour drive from Northern Virginia on its own […]

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Utopia?

September 5, 2008

We think we dis­cov­ered par­adise in Crested Butte, Colorado. Can you imag­ine tak­ing your chil­dren to this play­ground every day? Despite the allure of this seem­ingly utopian moun­tain resort town, we are happy to be home in Northern Virginia, and are almost ready to start inun­dat­ing you with a series of posts about local places to […]

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Like many oth­ers out there, we are try­ing to do the impos­si­ble: min­i­mize the price and fuel usage and max­i­mize the pas­sen­ger capac­ity and dura­bil­ity or the vehicle.

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