Family Travel

After a summer when we totalled a car and then my laptop totalled itself, I am ready for fall.

The good news is that we did replace the car, no one was hurt, and today I just picked up my replacement laptop, with all my old data loaded onto it, from the genius geeks at Austin’s PC Doctors.

After I clean up my writer’s work desk (where I’ve been piling things since I was displaced across the room to hog the family desktop) and then load up the anti-virus software, spyware software and that cool Desktop Earth NASA thingie I was using on my old ‘puter, I’m good to go.

All of those pictures that I took on recent road trips are back, so now I can crank up the Virginia and Midwest posts.  

Hurray!

Happy Labor Day weekend….

Rather than slugging down the contents of those plastic water bottles and then tossing them (and heck, some are just tap water anyway) consider the SteriPEN.

Tim Leffel’s Cheapest Destinations blog has a SteriPEN giveaway contest going on right now to help you snap up one of these wonders. 

All you have to do is peruse an upcoming edition of his great online travel magazine, Perceptive Travel, answer a couple of questions, and you’re in the hunt.

If you travel a little off of the beaten path with your kids, this sounds like a terrific idea.

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