By Dolly Garnecki on April 18, 2011
After a Saturday filled with floods, hail, howling winds, and tornadoes, today was a blessed Palm Sunday filled with cornflower blue skies and fluffy clouds. Although our Saturday plans to attend the Discover Virginia wine festival were thwarted by drenching rain and funnel clouds, this two-day event had a wonderful turn-out on Sunday. So, after [...]
Posted in Travels | Tagged alpaca llamas, barrel train ride, discover virginia, Events with Panache, meg runion studios, suzysaid charlottesville, wine & food festival, wineries |
By Dolly Garnecki on March 28, 2011
I’m still recovering on rest from our family’s adventurous few days away to the nation’s capitol. As the past few years have indicated, I’m horrible about posting regularly during a vacation (that’s the point of a vacation–right?). And the effort of editing an sorting through hundreds of photos just to write a blog post…I’m plumb worn [...]
Posted in Travels | Tagged amtrak, baltimore, dc with kids, eastern market, hirshhorn, market lunch, mccormack and schmick's, national aquarium, national gallery of art, smithsonian, travel with kids, u.s. botanic garden, washington DC |
By Dolly Garnecki on January 20, 2011
So, over the holidays, we traveled to 3 cities in Pennsylvania and New York to visit family. We were never at one place long enough to feel like we burdened anyone too much, and we always looked forward to our next stop.
A few highlights from our trip…
Posted in Travels | Tagged bear mountain, hudson valley, sledding, travel, travel with kids |
By Dolly Garnecki on December 23, 2010
I’m posting daily in December for #Reverb10–an online initiative to reflect on 2010 and manifest & send out reverberations for 2011. {Prompt: Travel. How did you travel in 2010? How and/or where would you like to travel next year? Tara Hunt @missrogue} In 2010, we traveled by train to D.C. By plane to Washington. By car from Virginia [...]
Posted in Travels | Tagged blogging, reverb10, travel, writing |
By Dolly Garnecki on September 27, 2010
“Are we there yet?” Sound familiar? Or does your child get antsy and need to expel pent up energy on a long trip? After a summer of train travel and cross-country flying with my almost-three-year-old, I discovered a few tips that made our travel experiences relaxing and enjoyable for all of us (and the passengers [...]
Posted in Reviews & Giveaways, Travels | Tagged activities for traveling kids, amtrak, flying with kids, toys for travel, travel activities, travel tips for parents, traveling with kids, travelkiddy |
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