Photo Fave: Central Park’s Alice in Wonderland sculpture – the first time
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All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
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All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
I’m a sentimentalist. In the side pocket of an ugly old purse I seldom use tucked in the back corner of my closet, I still keep a used Metro ticket from my first visit to Paris. In my dress-up coat, which is very rarely worn (I assure you, especially now with three children), I keep…
When I mentioned the upcoming National Park Week and related Earth Day events earlier this week, I couldn’t help but think about the amazing State Parks California also has to offer that shouldn’t be overlooked by those planning travel here with their kids. For example, Humboldt Redwoods State Park (above) is just one of several parks featuring enormous redwoods…
Review of Napili Kai Beach Resort, Maui, Hawaii – our family’s stay at the resort with three young children. What I came to realize during our stay at Napili Kai Beach Resortwas that it was everything this resort had done differently from most that made it so special. The 50-year-old resort is steeped in smart…
I recently saw a tweet from @SoulTravelers3 that read, “Family travel is often about doing ordinary things in extraordinary places.” It got me thinking. Traveling with a school-age child now, it’s things like watching her do homework on the airplane or on a balcony in Spain that sets my heart a-flutter about family travel as…
On this day in 2007, I published my first Travels with Baby Tips post. 😀 I’d already launched the TravelswithBaby.com site a few years before that, and the blog (then completely separate from the site on blogspot, because that’s how blogs were!) was only intended to help publicize my new book, the FIRST edition Travels…
I was recently discussing my first trip to Italy with a friend (before kids, before digital cameras, before Blackberries), and had the sudden realization that, these 8 years later, we remember much of the trip in detail, but not so much its significant beginning. I think that in itself makes a very good case for…