A family feature is one that revolves around activities done by a family or one of its members, e.g., a father and daughter hike in the Alps, a day out with teenage sons in Seattle, or white-water rafting with grandparents.
IHOP Over Idaho – On a mother-daughter road trip, a foodie mom confronts her fast-food demons
Cross-country road trip – Day 33. We’re in Twin Falls, Idaho, and the rain is coming down in sheets. My 10-year-old twins and I have just spent more than three hours slogging from the Best Western to the Sleepytime Inn and everywhere in between, looking for a place to spend the night. But there’s a softball tournament in town, and all the motels are full of girls and their parents lugging duffels full of sports gear.
As the rain clatters hard on the car roof and the dampness begins...
The threatening sound of hoofs stop us in our tracks.
“We’re too exposed,” I think to myself, as my husband, daughter and her friend crouch low in the forest. Do we hunker down deep in the underbrush and hope the horse passes us by? Or do we make a run for it and risk the crunch of autumn leaves giving us away? We’ve lost all sense of direction and the map isn’t much help now.
How did we get into this spot? It all started with a drive to Red Deer, where a quick turn off Gasoline Alley took us to Heritage Ranch. There we met Joel Martens...
Spend a day prowling with the puffin patrol: Volunteers gather to help stranded pufflings get home to ecological reserve
Witless Bay, N.L.-"I can guarantee you that your wildest puffin fantasies will be realized here this morning," tour guide and famous Newfoundland singer Con O'Brien vows as a hundred of us set sail on a whale and bird sightseeing cruise.
I already know what's going down, so am first to leave the sunny upper deck of the aptly named Atlantic Puffin to get a spot on the main deck when the time comes.
The most breathtaking escape in California is the great outdoors.
My son Cameron, 11, is and has always been a mover.
If there’s a log, he’ll jump on it; a couch, he’ll climb it; a puddle, he’ll be happy to splash around.
In our suburban neighborhood the opportunities for that are fewer than they were when I was a kid. While recess offers a bit of an outlet for all that tween energy, it never seems to be enough. So you can imagine the joy that flooded Cameron’s face when I set him free during a trip to...
Travelling with my autistic son is both fantastic and formidable
I knew we were in trouble when a group descending the rain-forest trail we were struggling up were wearing helmets.
“It’s really steep and there are loose, falling rocks,” the guide explained, noting our bare heads.
Oops. We’d also forgotten to bring any snacks except for a half-eaten bag of tortilla chips, or an extra litre of water in what felt as though 40-degree heat. Our family jungle trek at Mayflower Bocawina National Park in Belize was threatening to turn into a major parenting fail....
