Archive for the 'Family Travel' Category

Family Travel Category—Silver Winner: Thank God for the War

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

by Lone Mørch Schneider
“A Queen cannot come from such humble beginnings,” Frieda objected, standing in the remaining rubble of her Transylvanian childhood home. We were in Zendersch, an isolated parish tucked into the rolling hills of the mountainous heart of Romania. Her highness was my mother-in-law. She’d proclaimed herself the Queen of Petaluma, a town [...]

Family Travel Category—Gold Winner: Finding my Rock

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

by Jennifer Baljko
Lost in a dense forest with prickly bushes attacking my calves, I started thinking in expletives.
I was on a hair-brained outing with my father, the kind that usually began with his trademark self-satisfied grin, and, a few hours later, ended with me swearing I would never follow him again.
This time, we were searching [...]

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