Tag: Family Travel

Creating Masterpieces

LEGO remains a mainstay in our house. This past weekend we drove to Richmond for the day to attend a festival devoted to these little plastic pieces. My daughter enjoyed crafting her own masterpieces to add to the displays set up throughout the arena. One of the areas they set up for building was with the Architecture series that LEGO has for several iconic buildings and locations. In this small set of Venice, pictured below there are 212 pieces! The whole set could fit in your hand, it measures 10 inches long, 5 inches high and 1 inch deep. Did you catch that it’s 212 pieces?

 

 

 

 

That is a lot of pieces just to make a skyline of Venice that can fit in the palm of your hand, right? Consider planning your own trip to Venice, while there may not be 212 components of the trip, there are still several aspects that go into creating your masterpiece of a vacation. What if you expand the trip to include other iconic sites throughout Italy? The component count goes up considerably! Throw even one other person into your vacation and the pieces of your vacation planning multiply.

 

Each member of the family has their own set of expectations for the trip. It’s my job, as their travel consultant, to take each of those destinations and expectations and put them together to build a fabulous itinerary.

 

Vacations of a lifetime are not simply plucked from the pages of magazines, no matter how flawless the photographs appear. They are created piece by piece and personalized to fit your style and budget, but exceed your expectations. I pride myself in getting you more from your travel budget than you ever thought possible.

 

Don’t wait to make memories that will last a lifetime, click here so we can get started planning today. 

 

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Every Kid in a Park

I have long been an advocate for using travel as a tool to enhance your child’s education beyond the classroom walls. There was even an article on Inc.com the week before last about how travel can help your kids succeed, click here to read the article.

For the next year 4th graders across the US are getting some help in that regard. In it’s second year, the  Every Kid in a Park Program offers the opportunity for  4th graders to receive their own National Parks pass free of charge. The passes are good for the 2016 – 2017 school year and do not expire unil August 31, 2017. If your family visits a park that charges per person entry fees, the 4th grader pass is good for all children in your party under the age of 16 and up to three adults. What if you visit a park that charges by the car? It’s still good! The pass will admit all children and all adults in one non-commercial vehicle for free!

From Acadia to Zion and every national park in between nothing is excluded for these 4th graders.

Maybe this is the incentive your family was looking for to finally take that trip to Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon next summer.

Of course all of us can read about destinations or historical events in a book, but actually standing next to a Giant Sequoia or watching an historical reenactment at Appomattox Court House puts everything into perspective, especially for a child.

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

– Sir John Lubbock

On a related note, Canada announced late last month, that for all of 2017, to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, that all national parks, national historic sites and national marine conservation areas will waive entry fees.

For more information on the pass for 4th graders, or pass information for military, seniors or the standard annual passes email or call Jennifer (757) 484-4015.

If you are ready to start planning a National Parks vacation for yourself or your family (4th grader not required) click here.

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