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From Austin to Arizona, Paris to Pennsylvania, these posts describe places the Mother of All Trips family has visited.
You can browse these listings by location, alphabetically, or chronologically. And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, please try the keyword search on the left.
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- A beautiful day at the Missouri Botanical Garden
- A bit of Marie Antoinette’s folly
- A change in plans
- A change in the itinerary
- A clown train
- A coin in the Trevi Fountain
- A day at the Musee d’Orsay
- A day of accomplishments
- A day with kids in Paris calls for la perspective
- A few mud puddles
- A little chick in the Temple of Love
- A little family togetherness
- A mother and children at Taliesin West
- A return to Giverny
- A return to Italy is a runner up
- A return to Tuscany with Frances Mayes
- A royal trip
- A tale of two Vermonts
- A trip back in time with Thomas and the Strasburg Railroad
- A very different trip to New York
- Ah, Austin
- Ahhhh, Vermont
- Amusement, French style
- An urban hike on the Promenade Plantée
- And he’s off…
- And the winner is…
- Armed and ready
- Atlantis Kids Adventure
- Au revoir
- Aunt & Uncle = Happiness
- Baseball + grandpa = happiness
- Before and after
- Big and little in the Boboli Gardens
- Boston bound
- California dreaming
- Castles, dinos, and birdhouses on the shores of Lake Champlain
- Christ Church Philadelphia: A quick trip back in history
- Clearly I need to add North Dakota to our destinations list
- Conservation, in all its forms
- Day out in Paris with Daddy (or the homicidal orangutan)
- Day out with kids: Madison Children’s Museum
- Dispatches from the road: Coming into Los Angeles
- Dispatches from the road: Tips for crossing the desert
- Eat at Joe’s (Farm Grill that is)
- Eating out with kids in London: Wagamama
- Every carousel in Paris?
- Everyone needs a travel angel
- Faerie houses at the Vermont Festival for the Arts
- Florence, Italy 1980
- For the love of maple
- Free fun at the Crown Center
- George Washington’s breakfast
- Goodbye summer
- Grabbing the brass rings
- Guest post: Obama inauguration Part 1
- Guest post: Obama inauguration Part 2
- Guest post: Obama inauguration Part 3
- Hello muddah, hello faddah
- In disguise at Miller Park
- Introducing our 60-mile-per-hour fabulous *budget* adventure
- Invasion of the autosaurs!
- Is travel relevant? This mom says yes
- It’s Blogapalooza time!
- It’s good to be queen
- It’s here! The *new* Mother of All Trips
- Juggling in the rain
- Just another kid playing piano
- Keeping it simple, even on the road
- Le p’tit poulet
- Le train bleu
- LEGOs in paradise
- Long day’s journey into Paris
- Looking back…looking forward
- Los Angeles: One day, two kids, three great things to do (with a bonus side of pie)
- Mad River Glen: A skier’s mountain where everyone can be a skier
- Maple creemees
- MidAtlantic Wednesday: Much more than trains at the Choo Choo Barn
- MidAtlantic Wednesdays: Christmas at the Brandywine River Museum
- MidAtlantic Wednesdays: Peeps Fest 2009
- MidAtlantic Wednesdays: Skiing at Bear Creek Mountain
- MidAtlantic Wednesdays: Skiing in the Poconos
- MidAtlantic Wednesdays: The National Canal Museum & Crayola Factory
- MidAtlantic Wednesdays: The Reading Terminal Market
- MidAtlantic Wednesdays: Toy Magic in Bethlehem
- Miniature golf with a view – Vermont style
- MOAT takes Manhattan: Day one
- MOAT takes Manhattan: Day three
- MOAT takes Manhattan: Day two
- Mondays are for dreaming: A country fair
- Mondays are for dreaming: A family-friendly stay at the Hill Farm Inn
- Mondays are for dreaming: Boston
- Mondays are for dreaming: Christmas in London
- Mondays are for dreaming: Colonial Williamsburg (and beyond) in the Truckster
- Mondays are for dreaming: Copperwynd Resort
- Mondays are for dreaming: Coram’s Fields
- Mondays are for dreaming: Endless summer…not!
- Mondays are for dreaming: Florence
- Mondays are for dreaming: Home for the holidays
- Mondays are for dreaming: Hotel Lancelot
- Mondays are for dreaming: Jaipur, India
- Mondays are for dreaming: Ladurée
- Mondays are for dreaming: Lake Champlain
- Mondays are for dreaming: London
- Mondays are for dreaming: Looking up in Oxford
- Mondays are for dreaming: Lost city of Atlantis
- Mondays are for dreaming: Mad River Glen
- Mondays are for dreaming: Off to the Caribbean
- Mondays are for dreaming: Pacific Grove
- Mondays are for dreaming: Paris eats
- Mondays are for dreaming: Pasadena
- Mondays are for dreaming: Pastries and fishes
- Mondays are for dreaming: Philadelphia
- Mondays are for dreaming: Playing in the Vermont snow
- Mondays are for dreaming: Romance in Rome
- Mondays are for dreaming: Santorini
- Mondays are for dreaming: Stoke Newington
- Mondays are for dreaming: Surprising the kids at LEGOLAND
- Mondays are for dreaming: Swimming with the dolphins
- Mondays are for dreaming: Tea, peace, welcome, Vermont
- Mondays are for dreaming: The Angel Tree
- Mondays are for dreaming: The gray whale migration
- Mondays are for dreaming: Vermont (or should I say “the driveway moment”?)
- Mondays are for dreaming: Views of London
- Mondays are for dreaming: Where a passport can take you
- Mondays are for dreaming: Zilker Park
- My children aren’t the only ones who ride carousels
- My favorite road sign of all time
- My year in Florence at Italiakids.com
- Napping on the go, Venice Beach
- No time for The Thinker
- Nostalgic candy, British style
- Not for the kiddoes
- Oeufs mayonnaise on the Rue du Bac
- Old (and new) friends on the ferry
- One more post…
- Out and about with kids: Calvert Farm
- Out and about with kids: Cape Ann, from the archives
- Out and about with kids: Children of the corn
- Out and about with kids: Havre de Grace
- Out and about with kids: Lions, bears, and purple tigers at the Philadelphia Zoo
- Out and about with kids: Please Touch Museum
- Out and about with kids: The Eric Carle Museum
- Out and about with kids: Welcoming fall at Longwood Gardens
- Outside Charles de Gaulle Airport
- Paris in its proper order
- Paris is our oyster
- Pioneer history at the Milton House
- Pizza with heart
- Playing catch on the PA Turnpike
- Portrait of the artist in Paris
- Practicing paleontology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
- Pretty as a picture at Giverny
- Racecars, pottery, and stuffed animals – oh my!
- Rain, rain…and a cold
- Riding the Red Line
- Riding the Santa Train
- Seeing London in a new way with Fat Tire Bike Tours
- Ski it if you can – wherever you are
- Skipping with the steam engines
- Sleeping like a baby in Boston
- So did you notice the tabs?
- Some road trip stats
- Spring break, Arizona style
- Spring cleaning and live blogging
- Strolling on the Common Road
- Suddenly I’m traveling with bigger kids
- Summer dreaming
- Summer treasures: 111 and counting
- Summertime, pure and simple
- Sweet Caroline (or how wise I was to bring help to Paris)
- Take me out to the ballgame!!!
- Taking kids on the Tube
- Taking kids to the British Museum
- Taking the family to France: Le plan de Paris
- Teatime with kids at Fortnum & Mason
- The Atlantis Resort from top to bottom
- The Magic House: A little less than spellbinding
- The magic of Monet in Giverny
- The old swimmin’ hole
- The return of Lovey Bear or where to stay at the Philadelphia Airport
- There are no children in this picture
- Three little monkeys
- To Atlantis or not to Atlantis? That’s the question.
- Trafalgar Square, Fall
- Travel planning: A quick trip to Los Angeles
- Travels with my parents: India
- Trekaroo stops in Philadelphia and The Mother of All Trips is on board
- Trip planning: Arizona Science Center
- Trip planning: Desert Botanical Garden
- Trip planning: For the grownups
- Trip planning: The Heard Museum
- Trip Planning: Using Go Cards in Los Angeles
- Wagon Queen Family Truckster stop one: Virginia Beach
- Water, the White House, and words for Obama
- We made it to Paris! Now for the good stuff
- We {heart} Shelburne Farms
- We’re going to Washington DC!
- Welcome summer!
- Welcome to Texas: We’re glad to have you!
- Well now, we’re glad to have you: Austin eats
- We’re in Washington DC…what time is it?
- What’s more fun: The real Tower Bridge or the one made of LEGOs?
- Wheeee!
- When kids get jet lagged
- Where in the world is MOAT?
- Where to stay (and put your car) at JFK Airport
- Who wants to go to the movies?
- Wild turkeys and tame tigers: A (mostly free) day out in Madison
- Wish you were here (and would watch the kids for a bit)
- Worst trip yet
- Writing about travel: It runs in the family
- Your top 5 questions about riding in the Truckster answered
- “Mommy, don’t help me!” More on traveling with big kids
Reverse chronological order:
September 3, 2010
We used the Underground to get around London a lot on our most recent trip. I find it unnerving. The New York City subway and the Paris Metro don’t faze me in the least, but there’s something about the deep descents and the constant crush of commuters pressing always to the left instead of the [...]
August 31, 2010
There are two food-related items that are important to me when I’m traveling with my children. One is that they always have some exposure to local traditions and food. The other is that they get some experience eating at restaurants that do not have a children’s menu and where they cannot color on the tablecloth. [...]
August 30, 2010
I don’t usually share posts that are primarily photos (since I don’t really consider myself a photographer) but sometimes the perfect words elude me, especially when it comes to a place as gorgeous and magical as Oxford. Looking at these pictures, it amazes me I don’t still have a crick in my neck, I spent [...]
August 23, 2010
Now is usually the time to write the obligatory “summer is ending and I’m feeling wistful” post, but to do so would be disingenuous. Yes, I love fireflies and ice cream and corn-on-the-cob as much as the next person, but you know what I don’t like? Mosquitoes. Heat and humidity. Aimless children bickering in the [...]
August 16, 2010
When the boys said they wanted to go up in the London Eye I was dubious. Expensive, crowded, tourist trap…these were the words that came to my mind. And yet as we approached it on the afternoon of our ride I realized that like the Eiffel Tower it has a beauty all its own that [...]
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