Travel Ideas content provided by Mom With a Map staff writer Family vacations help you to spend quality time with loved ones and create unforgettable memories. Moreover, it’s easier to take time off your busy schedule and recharge. However, planning a unique family vacation can be overwhelming with many travel destinations and activities. Here are…

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If you’ve followed Mom With A Map prior to our boating adventure, you’ll know that we love a good travel bucket list. We’ve extensively explored our home state of North Carolina. (I even published my list that you can check out here: NC Bucket List For Families) We love the diversity of destinations our state…

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Several years ago if you asked me about the National Park System I would have naïvely explained that our family isn’t super outdoorsy. (And by “outdoorsy” I mean that we don’t possess any crazy survival skills for being in the wild for extended periods of time.) Therefore, we didn’t include National Parks in our travel…

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5 years ago if you told me that one of my favorite travel activities would become visiting family-friendly National Parks- I would have called you crazy. I don’t camp. I don’t hike. In fact, I’m not even all that outdoorsy unless it involves beaches, boating or sports. In other words, National Parks weren’t my dream…

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Despite planning our cross-country trip for over 6-months, we still ran into surprises. And one of those surprises has been South Dakota. Who knew we’d fall in love with this state so much? If you’ve ever been there, this probably doesn’t shock you. But we could have EASILY put down roots in South Dakota and…

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