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April 29, 2010

How it Rolls in Peru: The April Update

After severe flooding in January washed out the tracks, train service to Machu Picchu was interrupted and the sanctuary closed. Many families scheduled to travel in February and March had to scramble, shifting their vacations to other destinations and putting their Peru plans on hold. Let us promise you none of this was fun, but…

April 21, 2010

Meet Our Pal, Barbara Ruttenberg

Another is our ocassional series of interviews with our past guests. Barbara began her Thomson travels on a Thomson Safari in 2000, and has been on 3 Thomson Family Adventures with her grandchildren since; and we hope there will be many more! How / when did you find TFA? My first trip with TFA was…

March 22, 2010

Meet our Pal Kathy Kinney; Grandmother, World Traveler, Adventurer Extraordinaire. And a really nice person, to boot.

  In July Kathy Kinney will be enjoying her fourth Thomson Adventure, this time with three grandchildren ages 10, 11, and 12. Join them on our Costa Rica Multisport Adventure July 3 – 11 How did you find TFA? …. My husband and I have been blessed with nine wonderful, healthy, inquisitive grandchildren. In 2003…

March 10, 2010

Thomson Family Adventures and Avatar

Truth is I have not yet seen the movie Avatar, but everyone I know who has says it is awesome. Just this week I learned that the very beautiful national park of Zhangjiajie in the Hunan province of China has been credited with inspiring the scenic landscape of Pandora. Wow! This is ‘wow’ because we’ve…

March 1, 2010

Mouse Stories

This event happened awhile back, but frankly I needed some distance before being able to talk about it. (And we wanted to be sure we had Kirsten signed on before she heard about it!). It’s true, we had a mouse problem at the office. Now I love little critters and fully support all animals’ rights…

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