We had a lot of fun picking out favorite local family-friendly destinations in all directions for a recent post on Technorati.
We could only describe a few in the article. There are so many great Seattle-based getaways that kids love: Winthrop, Roslyn, Victoria B.C., Hurricane Ridge, Neah Bay, Bremerton, Mt. Rainier, Tacoma, and more. We plan to hit the road ourselves this spring to discover new local adventures. Add your favorites to our comments section.
Posted in Local Expeditions
Tagged family, getaways, Mt. Rainier, Seattle, Tacoma
From the top of Chair 1 at Alpental.
Snoqualmie pass is the major east/west migration route through the Cascade mountain range from Seattle. It is also the home of The Summit at Snoqualmie, an amalgam of four ski areas that each have a unique and distinctive vibe despite being commonly-owned. There is Summit West, a perfect place for families to learn to ski. Summit Central has the terrain park and is popular for night skiing. Summit East (a.k.a. Hyak) is my family’s low-key favorite. And finally there is Alpental, which has the steeper terrain and backcountry access that expert skiers love. I’ve been skiing at Snoqualmie pass for over 20 years and have had a season pass there for the last decade. I won’t tell you where my secret stashes of snow are located, but here are a few other things that I have learned:
Posted in Bill, Local Expeditions
Tagged family, kids, skiing, Washington
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Posted in Bill, Our Travels with Kids
Family on the Loose is for travelling parents who believe it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive*. Our mission is to help you spark a passion for adventure, a love of cultural differences, and a vision of global responsibility in your children … without missing any of the fun of a trip well-taken.
Traveling with your kids can be more rewarding than any traveling you have done before. It’s a new adventure for everyone. Kids will be full of energy, inquisitive, excited and surprisingly brave. They will open up new cultural doors for you as strangers ask them questions, storekeepers speak to them in broken English, and local children invite them to play on the playground. As in other aspects of your life, kids will shed new light on things you might otherwise have only seen through the dulled lens of adult experience.
“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Posted in Philosophy
Tagged children, family, Family on the Loose, kids, travel
Bill Richards and Ashley Steel are the authors of "Family on the Loose: The Art of Traveling with Kids", from Rumble Books. The book is packed with bulleted lists of travel tips, fill-in pages for packing and journaling, ideas for inflight entertainment, strategies for browsing museums with kids, and much more. It is unlike other family travel books in that it is not about where to go. "Family on the Loose: The Art of Traveling with Kids" details how to make any family trip smarter and more fun!
The book has received terrific reviews on travel blogs, parenting blogs, Amazon and GoodReads. Book description, preview pages, review quotations, and links to full reviews are available on the book page of this site.
Bill and Ashley have two wonderful and well-traveled daughters. As a family, they’ve visited or lived in the USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Slovakia, England, Hungary, Slovenia, Denmark, The Netherlands, and The Czech Republic. They've traveled by discount airline, overnight train, crowded bus, rental car, and camper van. They’ve slept in fancy hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts, campgrounds, with friends or family, and in rented apartments. They have all carried backpacks, squeezed into one family backpack, rolled suitcases, and even traveled without so much as a toothbrush.
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