http://familytraveladventures.today.com Tips For Making the Most of Your Travelling Adventures....From a Journeying Mom Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:43:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are many travel programs that profess to offer discounts but I have not found most of them to be that helpful.   A few that we use regularly are the Entertainment hotel discount card, GoCardUSA and our AAA discount card.  All are easy to use and seem to save enough money ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/02/25/save-money-with-travel-discount-programs/ When we are traveling we like to look for small ways to save money, so we can spend our travel budget on doing more and splurging on a few activities.  One way we have found to save money on our food budget is to pack each person their own lunchbox.  ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/02/11/pack-your-snacks-to-save-money-on-a-roadtrip/ Even when we are travelling to a major destination like Disneyland or the Grand Canyon, we are sure to explore some of the lesser known attractions along the way.  Some of our fondest memories are of small attractions not usually found in travel books.  These attractions are usually not expensive or ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/02/09/check-out-smaller-attractions-along-the-way/ We have found another fun way to remember our family vacations.  On each trip we are sure to take at least one family photo at our favorite attraction.  This is sometimes a photo of just the kids or other times we will ask an employee at the attraction to take a ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/02/09/make-a-puzzle-out-of-a-picture/ One fun thing that keeps our children entertained along roadtrips is to make them a 'travel passport'.  Get each child a small notebook and have them prepare their passport before leaving on vacation.  Designate 2 pages for each state you will be passing through (you might leave a few extra pages ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/02/06/help-your-child-make-their-own-travel-passport/ My husband and I are big photo takers.  Each vacation we have several cameras with us and they get lots of use!  Though we had lots of wonderful photos of our adventures, we realized that none of them really showed the trip from the perspective of our children.  So, we now ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/02/04/capture-your-vacation-from-your-childs-point-of-view/ We like to use our time in the car creatively.  It seems the more we are chatting and thinking, the faster the time goes.  One fun way we interact with the kids and keep them entertained is with a story round.  What's a story round? A story round is a story ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/01/30/creative-time-in-the-car/ One way we help the kids build memories of our travels is to buy them each a postcard from each attraction we visit.    We encourage them to write some of their favorite memories of the location (little ones can draw a picture) on the back.    After the trip we can ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/01/28/buy-the-kids-a-postcard/ While at the souvenir shops of an attraction, it is so easy to blow your budget on little trinkets and t-shirts.  Especially when there are kids begging for this and that!  With five kids, we realized how easy it would be to go broke as we bought a little something ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/01/26/set-a-souvenir-budget-and-stick-to-it/ Many years ago we decided to start a collection so we could remember our travels.  We didn't want to choose anything expensive or space-prohibitive.  And we wanted to be sure it was something that is easily available at most attractions and easy to display.  So, now we purchase a magnet from everywhere ... http://familytraveladventures.today.com/2009/01/23/start-a-souvenir-collection/