Tag: educational travel

Indulge Your Interests While You’re on the Go

June 17, 2023
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When Marion Beatty mentioned to a fellow birdwatcher that she was considering a vacation concentrated on their mutual interest, her friend suggested that she check out the Road Scholar tour company. Marion found hundreds of “Learning Adventures listed on its website, including 14 specifically for birders. Then came the biggest challenge: deciding whether to train…

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Taking the Kids: And Honoring Veterans. 10 Places to Visit

November 4, 2022
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The young woman was standing at the grave of the grandfather she had never met. We were in France at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial that overlooks Omaha Beach, where her grandfather – just 29 when he died, leaving behind a wife and two young children – is buried alongside thousands of young men who died…

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The View From a Riverboat Window on the Nile River

September 27, 2022
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As I sat on the sun deck outside my riverboat cabin overlooking the surrounding scene, many of the most fabled attractions of Egypt came into view. The towering Pyramids of Giza were guarded by the world-famous Sphinx, whose face, believed to portray that of a pharaoh, sits on the body of a lion. I spotted…

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Educational Travel Destinations the Entire Family Will Enjoy

April 23, 2022
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By Lynn O’Rourke Hayes From FamilyTravel.com Supercharge your family’s brain power with a visit to these dynamic destinations. Here are five compelling places to consider. U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama Do you have what it takes to be a space explorer? Visit this other-worldly technology center to experience the Discovery Shuttle simulator, feel…

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