TravelGoon Kids โ NYC
What are your favorite things to do in NYC? What books or websites do you visit before you go? What do you not like? What tips do you have for friends planning to go? Camille says: “I like American Girl. I think the Natural History Museum is pretty fun to go to. The Transit Muswum
Web Wednesday โ Mommy Poppins
One thing I like to do before I go on a trip is try to find local blogs. A local travel or parenting blog is a great way to get the insider’s story . Often, you can find these blogs with simple web searches. I also like to use “social networking” tools, such as Twitter
Tuneful Tuesday โ Catch That Train!
Reflecting on our recent trip to NYC that seemed to focus on the subway, the CD that jumps to mind is Catch That Train from Dan Zanes and Friends. Dan is a wonderful family musician who is based in Brooklyn. In fact, we actually got to chat with him for a few minutes while we
New York Transit Museum
On a rainy, carless Sunday in Brooklyn, the girls and I sat eating a bagel discussing out choices of what to do. I handed our travel book Lonely Planet NYC to Camille to see what she might come up with. A few of her selections were not open on a Sunday, but one was open
New York City Photos
From our train trip to NYC earlier this month:
natural historian
Earlier this month, we were in Brooklyn for a weekend. On Monday, we checked out of our hotel and (finally!?!) found a good bagel place. The weather was grey and rainy, so we really were not in the mood to explore places by foot outdoors, especially while carrying all our conference swag, our clothes and
Rainy Day in Brooklyn
I woke up early on Sunday and tried to catch up on all the videos and photos I had taken on Saturday. But by 11am, the kids were still asleep and I was more than ready to get out of the hotel and do something. Unfortunately, the drizzle turned to rain…we found breakfast (the girls
Kindie Brooklyn
For the third year in a row (2007 and 2008), we headed to Brooklyn to the gathering of the “kindie” music scene, now called now called kindiefest. What fun it was to see so many of our favorite musicians and our online friends all gathered in one spot! The girls got the chance to participate
NYC at Christmas
A few weeks ago, I thought it might be nice to arrange a day trip to NYC from Washington for me and the girls to go see the tree, windows and lights. I then realized that Dan Zanes would be having a Holiday House Party in NYC. Rob then decided he would like to join
Final Day in NYC
The girls were not up for any ambitious sightseeing after we checked out of our hotel and headed to Manhattan. We took the subway to Times Square. Camille had in mind the chocolate stores. There were 50 police cars there; from what I gathered they were filming the movie “The Taking of the Pelham 123”.
Ride the Wonder Wheel
This morning, the girls and I walked over to the F train and rode it all the way to the end at Coney Island. Were they surprised that you could take the train to the beach! how cool is that! We walked over to the boardwalk, but almost nothing was open. Around noon, all the
Bagels for Breakfast
Could there be any doubt? We headed out early and got on the F train to Union Square. We quickly found a deli and grabbed some bagels and coffee (milk for the girls). We sat at a table in Union Square to eat, then walked through the wonderful farmer’s market that was going on there.
We’re in NYC now…
the train didn’t seem to have wireless, so I was off-line for over 24 hours for the first time in quite a while, I think. We got into Penn Station around 2pm, hopped on the uptown train (after fighting with the machine that would not sell me three subway cards), and got to the Museum
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