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Life in Motion – Without Turning Green
Several of our Thomson Family Adventures involve time on boats, or in vans on mountain roads… Ah yes, just this first sentence makes me feel queasy. And indeed we spend a lot of time chatting with families about how to combat the effects of motion. I’ve been plagued by motion sickness my whole life. When…
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…
Alaska and a Small World
Saturday evening I went to the High School Gospel Fest concert at Tufts University. Eight or nine different area schools had come together for the day to meet and inspire each other with music; their sessions were capped off by an evening concert of wonderful music, which is the part I went to. Through an…
St Catherine’s Monastery
At Thomson Family Adventures we always try to mix up the must-see sights with the lesser traveled path. This is especially true in Egypt where we begin in Cairo, end in Luxor, and in the middle: Sharm el Sheik! This gives all ages a breather from the antiquities and dense history of the pharaohs, and…
School of Thought: 8 Things Costa Rica Taught Me
Thomson Family Adventures partners with many educational institutions on the family travel programs they offer to their members. Thanks to Elissa Leibowitz Poma from the World Wildlife Fund Travel Program for sharing her blog post from her recent trip to Costa Rica: 8. Monteverde was founded by Quakers. Back in the 1950s, a group of…