Photo Fave: Our happy place… and yours?
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| In 2012… may you go to your family’s happy place! |
All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
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| In 2012… may you go to your family’s happy place! |
All content of this blog (c) Shelly Rivoli 2007 – 2011
Atop the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. Seeing this one never fails to give me a lift. If I were Oprah, I’d fill up an AirFrance jet with each of you and your little ones and head straightaway to Paris. The flight may be a bit noisy, but we’d all be in good company–and what…
To spice up any family road trip, add one ferry boat ride. In the San Juan Islands, a ride from Anacortes will not only lead you through spectacular scenery freed from your car seats and seat belts, all with the chance of spotting orcas and other wildlife, but you can eat hot dogs and popcorn,…
Traveling in Costa Rica during the Easter Holy Week, you can expect some things with certainty: You will have the pleasure of seeing many crosses decorated with purple shawls and flowers in front yards, you will likely cross paths with a religious procession at some point in your journey, and you will have a hard…
One good reason to wear your baby facing forward? Blowing kisses to the crowd to pass the time in the airport line. Come on grouchy travelers, tell me you don’t want to see this baby boarding your flight? The girls were heartsick, however, after SO MUCH FUN in Jamaica and having to leave the vacation nannies they’d…
Few visitors make it to the west-most edge of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, but those who do are often startled by the sight of this enormous windmill facing onto the Pacific. Queen Wilhelmina’s Windmill is one of two enormous windmills that were built in 1902 to help bring water into Golden Gate Park and…
Continuing the “In like a lion, out like a lamb” animal theme this month, I just had to slip in this photo from one of my most terrifying moments of family travel. Suffice to say I had no idea that our day trip to Dolphin Cove in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, would involve someone wrapping a sizeable snake…