Many people associate the airport with a place of duress, a stressful medium through which one must suffer, the battlefield from which travel is fought. And it can have that effect – poor planning, irregular operations and general bad luck can all contribute to the the trip from hell.
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One thing is true about traveling with kids: they’ll eat any junk they can find. Think about your last trip: How many times did you hit a fast food joint and chow down on fries, or inhale cotton candy in a theme park, or see how many hot dogs you could consume in under a minute? If your family’s like mine (and like most), the number may be higher than you’d like.
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Our little family of four routinely goes on family vacations. And by family vacations, I mean, “visiting family” vacations. Like many families living in Silicon Valley, my husband and I grew up outside of the Bay Area. We spend the majority of our vacation time visiting our families up north in Oregon, down south in LA and back east in Pennsylvania. Our kids recently had a Friday off, so we decided to spend the long weekend up in Wine Country relaxing with the kids.
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