family vacations
Take Your Kids on a Fun Visit to Connecticut – Inventor of the Lollipop
The first people came to the area that’s now Connecticut more than 10,000 years ago. Several thousand years later, Native American tribes including the Mohegan, Pequot, and Niantic lived in this region. Dutch traders arrived in 1614 and created Connecticut’s first European settlement in 1633. Both the Dutch and English settlers founded settlements in…
Read MoreTake Your Kids to Colorado get closer to the blue skies
Along the Santa Fe Trail by Ginger Wadsworth An adaptation of the author’s biography, Land of Enchantment, describes her eventful 1852 journey with her mother and brother from Kansas to California over the Santa Fe trail in a large wagon train. Colorado is the 38th state and it was awarded Statehood on…
Read MoreCALIFORNIA DREAMING? WHY TAKE A CALIFORNIA FAMILY VACATION THIS SUMMER?
Duke and Daisy are taking you to the 31st state California greeted explorers, vacationers, and adventurers for years and there are still many attractions for families to explore in the Golden State today. Duke and Daisy share the best family California adventures. Special California stories On September 29, 1542, Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo…
Read MoreTAKE YOUR KIDS TO ARKANSAS TO SHOW THEM THE WONDERS OF NATURE AND A SPECIAL NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
ARKANSAS THE 25TH STATE’S MOTTO: THE PEOPLE RULE. ARKANSAS HAS THE MOST DIVERSE GEOGRAPHY WITH MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, AND HOT SPRINGS. IT’S GREAT FOR OUTDOOR AND NATURE LOVERS. Arkansas is a sparkling state. Why? It’s a sparkling Diamond state with the discovery of diamonds in 1906 at the Crater of Diamonds State Park. Today…
Read MoreDISCOVER WHY KIDS NEED AN ARIZONA VACATION
Arizona: The 48th State. It was the last of the 48 states to join the union. It offers wonders of nature—the Grand Canyon with 277 miles of the gorge carved by the Colorado River. Native Americans have been living in the state for centuries. One special place to add to visit is the Havasupai Indian…
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