Special Needs Travel: 5 Great Ideas for a Memorable Family Vacation
Every family deserves a vacation. Fortunately, more and more operators are offering special needs travel for families of all abilities.
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Personal Statement
Heather Greenwood Davis is the award-winning freelance writer and columnist behind GlobetrottingMama.com – an international family travel blog. strong advocate for travel as a tool for both education and family bonding – themes that often appear in her articles.
Heather’s platform extends across all typed of media including print, online, television, radio and social media around the world. Among her most frequent outlets you’ll find National Geographic Travel , Canada’s highest circulation national newspaper “The Toronto Star,” top lifestyle show “The Social” and national morning show “Canada AM.” Articles and segments by her and about her have appeared in a host of media outlets across North America and around the world including O Magazine, NPR and CBC. The married mom of two boys was named a Traveler of the Year in 2012 after a yearlong family trip around the world that hit 29 countries on six continents in 12 months.
Among her hobbies: Crushing bucket lists, hiding from cold weather & inspiring a #noRegrets life.
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Articles by Heather Greenwood Davis
How to Keep Your Multigenerational Vacation from Becoming the Griswolds on Steroids
A solid mix of exasperation and exhilaration, a multigenerational vacation isn’t easy to plan or execute. These tips will help you reduce the bumps of an intergenerational trip.
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Three Generations of Travel
If you’re lucky, you’ll have the chance to travel with your kids when they’ve turned the corner into adulthood. If you’re luckier still, you’ll get to do it with your own parents too.
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A Matter of Perspective: Skipping School or Travel as Education?
Heather Greenwood Davis reacts to the recently rekindled debate about whether skipping school should be allowed in order to take advantage of travel as education.
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Keep the Learning Going: Summer Travel
School may be out, but that doesn’t mean the learning has to end. Here are three ways to keep the learning going.
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Family Travel Don’t: Fear-Packing
Fear-packing is what happens in that last 24 hours before departure. For families, the fears usually surround what the kids might need. Instead, train yourself to think about packing in a different way.
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Working Toward “Wild”
In the Pacific Northwest, there isn’t much to dislike. Towering trees, winding roads, and culture lend themselves to positive feelings.
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Can My Child Fly Solo?
Airline rules for unaccompanied minors vary, but most allow children ages 5 through 14 to fly solo domestically on direct flights.
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Travel Ireland: Family-friendly Fun Keeps Kids Happy
Care to travel Ireland with your family? Ten fun spots offer history, space to run free and a craving for a return visit.
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RV Road Trip: After a Few Mistakes, a Family Revels in the Freedom of the Road
Hitting the road in a 24-foot motorhome offered our road trip-loving family something no other vehicle can: complete freedom. But it wasn’t without its hiccups
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Being Black in China
Of all the countries they’ve visited as a family, the hardest, by far, was China. There were things about their family that made people stand in line to get photos with them.
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