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Traveling in general can throw a wrench in anyone’s normal lifestyle, but doing so during the holiday season takes it to a whole different level. Even the most seasoned traveler can get caught up in the stress that comes along with the trip, but there are several ways you can stay healthy as you travel Read More
My family, friends, coworkers, wife, and those random people I sort of know on Facebook, asked the same exact question that you’re about to ask: “Why would anyone want to visit Nicaragua?” Here are the basic reasons to visit: It’s cheap. It has active volcanoes, and beaches. It isn’t too touristy. It has beautiful architecture. They Read More
Summertime means more family time, and for Latinos, this family often extends across national borders. Fellow Book of the Month members may remember the following lines: “Every summer Santo Domingo slaps the Diaspora engine into reverse, yanks back as many of its expelled children as it can…Like someone had sounded a general reverse evacuation order: 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
If there were a time machine that could take you back to your childhood would you take it? While not all of our childhoods had an idyllic look or feel to them, there is a certain magic and charm in our childhood memories. There was no Disney World when I was a child and, even 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
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
The reasons to travel seem pretty obvious. Usually, we travel because it’s time for well-needed vacation or a mini break away from the daily monotony of routines and schedules. We often view trips as a time to enjoy an adventure or an opportunity to endlessly sunbathe on a beach with a piña colada in hand. Read More