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Four Fabulous Children's Museums

Where can you, your kids and your grandkids climb, build, bat balls and race cars, all the while keeping out of the summer heat? At a children's museum, of course. These indoor playlands combine education with fun, focusing on STEM or STEAM-fueled exhibits (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math). When visiting cities this summer with ...Read more

When You Travel, Follow Your Passion

Amanda Syrowatka, a travel expert and director of the Viceroy Bali resort in Indonesia, suggests to people who are planning a vacation that they "focus on experiences that fuel your passion," then select a destination where they are available. Richard Burgon, who provides advice and assistance about recreational vehicles on his rovinrv.com ...Read more

Find Excitement and Leisure Alike in Atlantic City

About 30,000 years ago, groups of people crossed over from present-day Siberia to Alaska before moving on and settling along the Atlantic seaboard of today's United States. Their descendants became the Lenape tribe, part of the Algonquin nation whose members lived in what now is New Jersey.

These people were followed by Jeremiah Leeds, a ...Read more

Art, Music and Fun on New York City's High Line

I recently was enjoying a leisurely stroll along a path that leads through a treasure-trove of various architectural styles, museum-quality displays of art and floral plantings that would make any gardener proud. I was walking the High Line, the elevated former railway that runs 30 feet above street level down the west side of Manhattan, New ...Read more

Follow the Historic Trail of the Pony Express

Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-shingled house in present-day Kansas, four years before the territory became a state. The structure also served as a grocery store, tavern and unofficial post office for immigrants following the Oregon-California Trails. Three years later it became one of the ...Read more

 

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