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Travel writer Sandra Foyt loves unexpected adventures, storybook settings, and sweet endings. A former homeschool educator and enrichment coach, she lived in Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Southern California. Sandra now shares a home in Northeast NY with a teen and tween, an outdoorsy husband, and a well-indulged Chocolate Lab. Founding editor of Albany Kid Family Travel, Sandra is a freelance journalist whose work can be found at multiple publications.
My Argentine grandparents spoke often and fondly of their visits to Spain; traveling to “la Madre Patria” was like going home to them. A popular sobriquet for Spain in Latin America, “la Madre Patria” supposedly holds no ideological meaning, but how do you untangle religious symbolism when it’s such a big part of culture and Read More
Labeled the “Love” train for its infamous Missed Connections, the L line is the uber pick up place – especially between the two stops separating hipsters from Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. But when you step off the train, the place to see and be seen is Brooklyn. Signs of the borough’s Read More
Some destinations are best approached from the deck of a cruise liner: the Norwegian fjords, the Mediterranean islands, and Alaska’s Inside Passage. Only then can you experience the wonder of a rising sun over nature’s majesty the way earlier explorers might have captured it, before the intrusion of man - where land encounters water’s edge. Alaska’s Read More
With Earth Day celebrated this week, the environment—and our role in protecting it—are top of mind as we plan summer family vacations. Inspired by Earth Day Network’s appeal for Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park, the “most biologically diverse place in the world,” why not start by getting to know our own national parks? America’s 58 national Read More
There is nothing stuffy about Puerto Rican culture. Boricuas know how to have a good time, and you never know what to expect. At the Saborea culinary festival last year, Food Network celebrity chef Robert Irvine heated up more than the sauce with his sexy striptease. And when Saborea returns to San Juan from April Read More
Not too long ago, the only acknowledgment of diversity at American theme parks was Disney World’s boat ride through a lineup of dolls in native garb singing, “It’s a small world…after all.” But, with the U.S. Hispanic population topping 50 million as of the 2010 census, change is in the air. Recent market trends show Read More
Imagine you and your beloved, dressed in white lace and crisp linen, gathered with your nearest and dearest in nature’s cathedral: floor of white sand, view of translucent sapphire waters, and canopy of lush tropical vegetation. That vision can be yours at a destination wedding in the Dominican Republic. Carol Cain, founder of NYCityMama, explains Read More
Diego Buñuel has a history of taking the less traveled road. Grandson of Luis Buñuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, Buñuel chose journalism over the family business. A native of Paris, Buñuel started out with a police beat in Miami before covering the globe as an award-winning French foreign news correspondent. And now as host of Don’t Tell My Mother Read More
It remains to be seen how many young Americans will avoid Mexico this year. Over 100,000 teenagers and young adults travel to Mexican resorts during Spring Break each year, but if Texas has anything to do with it, none will go this year. On March 6, 2012, the state of Texas warned against travel to Read More
Where can you find international dance and live music performances, culinary demonstrations, book signings with leading authors, fun family activities, and the chance to win fabulous vacations? Why, at a travel show, of course. A travel show offers more than a chance to connect with travel professionals from around the world; it is an event Read More