Travel tips for the family traveling with disabled children.
We can have fun and relaxing vacations, sometimes it just requires a little extra planning. I review every place that we visit so you know what to expect when you go.
National Park Pass Did you know that individuals with disabilities are entitled to a free lifetime pass to our visit our National Parks? Well, they are. So get one! I love our national parks, and some surprising places are national parks. When we went to the White House Easter Egg Roll, I learned that the…
White House Easter Egg Roll One really fun and memorable activity for families is the White House Easter Egg Roll. The 2022 White House Easter Egg Roll is always the Monday after Easter. This year, that is April 18. To get tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll, you must literally win the lottery….
Sesame Place Travel Tips Let’s be honest. Sesame Place is an expensive outing and chances are, a special occasion trip for your family. So you want to make the most of it, right? I’ve been to other parks and our trip was a disaster because we wasted our day waiting in lines, we didn’t know…
Kennedy Space Center Reviews The last full day of our Florida trip was spent visiting the Kennedy Space Center. This wasn’t on our original agenda, but I picked up a brochure at the Nickelodeon Resort lobby and the more I read the brochure, the more I wanted to go. I was particularly interested in the…
Halloween Activities for Kids Pennhurst is one of the Halloween things to do near me. I hate it. For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, Pennhurst is an asylum that was open for decades in suburban Philadelphia. It was closed in the 1980s. Today you can find former residents…
South Philly I’ve lived near Philadelphia most of my life. As a kid, we had obligatory field trips to the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and the Franklin Institute. (not all at the same time) As an adult, I still enjoy going there. When the kids were little, we did ‘little kid’ stuff like the Please…
Deep Creek Lake I live west of Philadelphia. My family enjoys almost all outdoors activities-fishing, hiking, kayaking, paddleboarding and more. Because of where we live, we’ve heard about Deep Creek Lake from many friends and acquaintances over the years. So, yeah. It was kind of a bucket list item for me. Not in a “well…
Special Needs Travel “You should go!” I was on the phone with a friend, because there was no texting or Facebook. She was saying how some of our friends were spending a long weekend out in the wine country of Sonoma. “Go!” she said. So we did. In a matter of a few weeks’ time,…
Wheelchair Accessible Beaches As I am sitting here putting together this post, it is 90 degrees, sunny and humid outside (and only April!). Mentally, I’ve checked out of school mode and all my focus is on summer and the beach. After the past 16 months that we’ve had, I cannot wait to travel again. In…