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The following is a guest post by Alex Sobota and Thomas Lukjaniec, oh-holidays.com. So you’re planning to take a short break to the ‘city of lights’ with your loved one, Europe’s most romantic city and a fairytale destination for couples. Although the prospect of taking romantic strolls down the banks of the Seine, sipping on…
The girls, well, not girls, not anymore, sat at the kitchen table sharing a bottle of wine. Their men snacked on chips and salsa at the granite island, while the kids scattered to distant parts of the villa. It was to have been a pool party, a high school reunion of sorts, but passing thunderstorms…
As we headed out to Yellowstone, I heard a slight grinding sound coming from the nether regions of my 2003 Chevy Suburban. It wasn’t particularly disturbing, but I casually asked Traveling Companion to keep an eye out for an auto repair shop as it couldn’t hurt to ask if this was a concerning sound. Just…
This Foodie Adventures Road Trip has been plagued with instances of extreme bad luck, and moments of sheer fortune. Finding not one, but three street side parking spots in downtown Chicago right in front of the pizza parlor we planned on visiting was a stroke of good fortune. Waking up to find a tire flattened…
As the second day of our Foodie Adventures Road Trip was also the second day of battling the scourge that is Giardia, the day was high on mileage but low on food consumption. Early in the day, another member of our tribe was felled by the virulent bug when my son started to complain of…
Our Foodie Adventures Road Trip was not off to a good start. The night before we were to set off on the road, when I should have been packing the car, I was writhing in pain from stomach camps in the early stages of a bout of Giardia, a souvenir from the Caribbean. We headed…
At first glance, the SameSun Backpacker Lodge in Vancouver might seem like a great place to stay with kids. The youth hostel is cheap, even for the private rooms, and it provides free WiFi, inexpensive meals, and both laundry and kitchen privileges. But there are even more good reasons to not take the kids: Hotel…
Do you have a special place that you return to again, and again? For my family, that special place is Lake Placid, NY, a picturesque resort town nestled in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. We return at least once a year, and often more than that, to experience all that this magical setting has…
A Parisian vacation was not in the budget for our 17th wedding anniversary, but we were not disappointed. Just a five hour drive from Albany, NY, Quebec’s Mont Tremblant is well-known for its challenging ski runs and European-style village. Less well-known is that it’s an ideal destination for couples seeking the romance of French culture…
Like many Capital Region residents, our family makes an annual pilgrimage to Florida. Sometimes we fly in, but more often we drive to avoid the expense of multiple airline tickets and car rental. Even without the cost savings, I prefer to drive from Albany to Florida just to see what we can see along the…