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Kari Haugeto, Author at AWAY is HOME
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#FamilyTravel Live! Road trip roundup edition

We’re thrilled to be broadcasting our Away is Home #Familytravel Live road trip roundup this week. Our focus will be on planning your big summer road trip, ideas on what to do and places to see along the way. Tune in to this page at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, June 20, 2013. The after partyRead more

Offbeat Philly for families: 3 odd places you’ve gotta see

Of course you’ve been to Philadelphia. You probably visited with your fifth grade class, making obligatory stops at the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and maybe a museum or two. I did. But there’s another side to the City of Brotherly Love. It doesn’t get mentioned in a lot of tourism brochures, but your family oughtRead more

#FamilyTravel Live: Philadelphia edition

We’re thrilled to share our Away is Home #Familytravel Live show about Philadelphia. Our focus was on bringing history to life and the best things to see and do in the city of brotherly love. As you know, #Familytravel live happens across all major social media, from Twitter to Google Plus to Facebook. But you canRead more

Washington’s monuments in minutes? Yes, you can do an abrvtd tour

We blew it. I could tell the minute we emerged from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. We’d spent too much time at the irresistible Time & Navigation exhibit, which features historical sextants, clocks and star maps. Dark clouds had formed above the National Mall and we’d have to get a move on ifRead more

#FamilyTravel Live: Washington D.C. edition

We’re thrilled to be broadcasting our Away is Home #Familytravel Live show from Washington D.C. this week. Our focus will be on the politics of traveling with the family and the best things to see and do at our nation’s Capital. Tune in to this page at 9 a.m. EDT on Thursday, June 6, 2013. TheRead more

Who rules your family road trip? Honestly, now — who?

Five hours into the drive from Atlanta to Washington, our kids tried to stage a coup. It happened at the worst possible moment in our trip, a rest area on Interstate 85 in a remote part of North Carolina. We were exhausted and we hadn’t eaten since grabbing a paper bag full of pastries atRead more

Be a beach “pro”: 5 shore secrets we discovered in Panama City

Say what you want about Panama City Beach, Fla. Poke fun at the highrise hotels, the bumper-to-bumper traffic on U.S. Route 98, and call it the Redneck Riviera, if you must. But spend a little time here and you’ll discover something about this unapologetically touristy strip of sand in Florida’s famous Panhandle. No one doesRead more

Which songs have you banned from your summer road trip?

We won’t be playing Justin Timberlake’s “Suit & Tie” in the car this summer. He’s been stripped from our playlist. In fact, I’m banning a long list of pop tunes, and I bet you will too. Wanna know why?Read more

Memorial Day driving advice you can actually use — no, seriously

If this story catches your eye while you’re washing your car or clearing out the trunk or vacuuming the back seats in preparation for the Memorial Day holiday, you’re not alone: 89 percent of travelers — that’s more than 31.2 million people — say they plan to travel by car this weekend, according to AAA.Read more

Cross-country in a clunker

Which came first the red warning light on our car’s dashboard or the ominous click, click, bang near our right front wheel? I don’t remember. All I know is that we were in the middle of the New Mexico desert and had about six hundred miles to go before we could stop for the nightRead more